List of New Zealand television channels
Television New Zealand (TVNZ) had a monopoly on
TV in
New Zealand until
1989. Its main channels are:
- TV One - news, current affairs, general entertainment, documentaries and sport
- TV2 - movies, soap operas, popular music, aimed at a younger audience
TVNZ also operated another station on
UHF, called Horizon Pacific, which carried programming from
BBC World, as well as documentaries, between
1995 and
1997, but this closed and was replaced by a local version of
MTV, which itself closed a year later.
The private TV channels currently available in New Zealand are:
- TV3 - news, current affairs, general entertainment, and sport
- C4 - youth music channel
- Prime TV - general entertainment
The country's first private TV channel, TV3, experienced serious financial problems before being acquired by
Canada's CanWest, which owns the Ten Network in
Australia, and part of TV3 in the
Republic of Ireland.
Prime TV is now partly owned by Australia's Nine Network. There are also regional stations, the first being Canterbury Television (CTV) in
Christchurch, while in the largest city,
Auckland, Triangle provides programming in different languages.
In 1990, Sky Network Television (then unrelated to its UK namesake) launched three pay-TV channels offering movies, sport and news on UHF. In 1999 it launched a multichannel digital satellite TV service, including a music channel called Juice.
There are also plans for a TV channel in Maori, known as the Maori Television Service.
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