@TV4 Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV) and MTV, in fact, didn’t broadcast on all 34 UHF TV licences and were only available free-to-air in the main centres … sort of. I am trying my best in order to get the facts just right, you know.
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Monday 18 March 1996
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.00am BBC World: BBC World News
6.15 World Business Report
6.30 On the Record
7.00 BBC World News
7.20 Window on Europe
7.55 Te Karere (Repeat of last Friday’s bulletin)
8.05 eTV: The National Business Review Report (G)
8.35 eTV: The Business (Final) (G)
9.10 eTV: The Giant Awakes (Final) (Rpt, G)
10.00 Infomercials
Noon Midday (First edition of TVNZ’s lunchtime news programme)
1.00 Maggie’s Garden Show (Repeat of last Friday’s programme)
2.00 Upstairs, Downstairs (Rpt, G)
3.00 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
3.20 Bananas in Pyjamas (Rpt, G)
3.25 Johnson and Friends (G)
3.35 Beakman’s World (Rpt, G)
4.05 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
4.40 Te Karere
4.50 Neighbours (G)
5.25 EastEnders (G)
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Fair Go (Series return)
8.00 The Vicar of Dibley (Series premiere)
8.40 Class Act (AO)
9.45 One Network News
10.05 Fraser Presents (Series return)
11.05 Tears Before Bedtime (Rpt, AO)
12.00am Infomercials
1.00 BBC World: BBC World News
1.15 World Business Report
1.30 Newshour Asia Pacific
2.30 Time Out: QED
3.00 BBC World News
3.15 The Money Programme
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out: The Clothes Show
5.00 BBC World News
5.15 World Business Report
5.30 Time Out: Tomorrow’s World (Continues to 6am)
TV2
6.10am Pinocchio (Rpt, G)
6.35 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt, G)
7.00 The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Rpt, G)
7.30 The Smurfs (Rpt, G)
8.00 The Snorks (Rpt, G)
8.30 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
9.00 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
10.00 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.30 Good Morning (First edition of TVNZ’s mid-morning magazine programme)
Noon The Young and the Restless (PGR)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Ricki Lake Show (Rpt, AO)
3.00 The Bold and the Beautiful
3.30 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (G)
4.00 Get Real (G)
4.30 ALF (Rpt, G)
4.55 The Brady Bunch (Rpt, G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
6.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (PGR)
8.30 JAG (PGR)
9.30 Homicide: Life on the Street (AO)
10.35 Married… with Children (Rpt, AO)
11.05 Sisters
12.05am Cops (AO)
12.35 Café Americain
1.05 Infomercials
2.05 Dark Justice (AO)
3.05 Rachel Gunn, RN (AO)
3.40 The Powers That Be (PGR)
4.10 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.40 You Asked for It (Rpt, G)
5.10 All in the Family (Rpt, PGR)
5.40 Kenneth Copeland Daily (G) (Continues to 6.10am)
TV3
6.30am The Magic Box (G)
7.00 Treasures Parent Time (G)
7.05 You and Me (G)
7.30 Garfield and Friends (G)
8.00 Gilligan’s Island (G)
8.30 Infomercial
9.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
10.00 Graham Kerr’s Kitchen (G)
10.35 Infomercial
11.05 General Hospital (PGR)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (AO)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
1.55 The Love Boat (G)
3.00 Treasures Parent Time (G)
3.05 You and Me (G)
3.35 Disney Adventure Afternoon: DuckTales (G)
4.00 TaleSpin (G)
4.30 Gargoyles (Series premiere) (G)
5.00 Thunder Alley (G)
5.30 Family Matters (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Beyond 2000 (G)
7.30 20/20
8.30 Monday Night at the Movies: Green Card (1990) (G)
10.45 Nightline (Late news)
11.15 Burke’s Law (PGR)
12.15am World News Tonight (Via satellite from ABC America)
12.45 Donahue (PGR)
1.45 Home Shopping (Continues to 6.30am)
HBO (Sky Movies)
Noon Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) (RP16)
2.00 The Heartbreak Kid (1992) (RP13)
3.35 The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991) (G)
5.20 The Big Heat (1953) (B&W) (GA)
6.50 Frozen Assets (1992) (PG)
8.30 Sony Monday Night Action: Speed (1994) (R13)
10.30 Fatherland (1994) (M)
12.20am The Thing Called Love (1992) (GA)
2.10 Closedown
Orange
6.00am The Juice Music Television (Continued)
10.00 The George & Alana Show
11.00 Designing Women
11.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Noon Coronation Street
12.30 Brookside
1.00 The Love Connection
1.30 Supermarket Sweep
2.00 The City
2.30 Prisoner, Cell Block H
3.00 Tempestt
4.00 Rolonda
5.00 All New Popeye
5.30 California Dreams
6.00 Saved by the Bell
6.30 The City
7.00 Brookside
7.30 Knight Rider
8.30 Side Effects
9.30 Orange at the Movies: Mission of Love (1994) (AO)
11.20 On the Buses
11.50 The Juice Music Television (Continues to 10am)
Horizon Pacific (ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, CTV, Southern)
7.00am ATV only: Welcome to Auckland (and at 8am and after closedown)
11.30 TV Shopping
3.00pm BBC Newsroom (Includes World Business Report, Asia Today and 24 Hours)
4.00 BBC World News Headlines
4.05 The Money Programme
5.00 Scratch
5.00 CTV only: Susan Sells (until 6pm)
5.30 Marketplace (G)
6.00 BBC Newsday
6.30 CTV only: CRT Farming Canterbury)
7.00 News at Seven
7.30 Local Edition
7.30 CTV only: George Balani
8.00 Time Out: Holiday
8.30 Monday Documentary: The Great Depression (PGR)
9.30 Open All Hours
10.00 express Report (PGR)
10.30 Regional News (Repeat of tonight’s News at Seven bulletin)
11.00 Marketplace (Repeat of today’s programme)
11.00 ATV only: BBC World News
11.00 CTV only: Susan Sells (Rpt), followed by Welcome to Canterbury
11.25 Closedown (except CTV)
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I’d forgotten that Good Morning started on TV2 before switching to TV1. Liz Gunn hosted it initially from memory?
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Yup it was Liz Gunn before Mary Lambie, I also had no idea it started on TV2 back then. Interesting also that Midday launched in 1996 and was an hour long show presumably hosted by Susan Wood at the time.
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Originally produced at Avalon as well I believe then moved to Auckland and back to Avalon and finished its days in Auckland again.
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Saturday 6 May 1995
from the NZ Listener
TV One
7.00am BBC World: BBC World Headlines
7.05 Question Time
8.00 eTV: Marketing (Rpt, G)
8.30 eTV: Know How: An Update
9.00 eTV: Design Classics (Rpt, G)
9.30 eTV: Media Television (G)
9.55 Living Dangerously (Final) (Rpt, G)
10.30 PlaceMakers Home Front (Rpt, G)
11.00 The Great Outdoors
Noon Gourmet Ireland
12.30 Bread (Rpt, PGR)
1.00 Go Back (PGR)
1.30 Gardens of the World
2.00 One World of Sport: America’s Cup Preview
2.30 One World of Sport: Caltex Cup Netball (Collegiate v College Rifles)
4.00 One World of Sport: Rugby: New Zealand’s Big Game (Auckland v Western Samoa)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Quantum (G)
7.00 Air New Zealand Holiday
7.30 Murder, She Wrote
8.35 Casualty (AO)
9.40 Awards of New Zealand 1995
10.40 One World of Sport: Rugby: New Zealand’s Big Game (Australia v Argentina)
12.30am Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Rpt, AO)
1.00 BBC World: BBC World News
1.25 World News Week
2.00 BBC World News
2.25 Film '95
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Correspondent
4.00 BBC World News
4.25 Time Out
5.00 BBC World News
5.25 On the Record (Continues to 6am)
TV2
6.05am Super Dave (Rpt, G)
6.30 Tom & Jerry (Rpt, G)
7.00 Bobby’s World (Rpt, G)
7.30 Sonic the Hedgehog (Rpt, G)
8.00 What Now, including:
8.10 Taz-Mania (Rpt, G)
9.00 Eek! The Cat (G)
10.00 X-Men (PGR)
11.00 Coca-Cola Chart
Noon Katts and Dog (G)
12.30 Thunderbirds (Rpt, G)
1.30 Time Trax
2.30 MacGyver (Rpt, PGR)
3.30 2 Sports Action: AIWA Kiwi League (Canterbury v Taranaki)
5.00 The Big Byte (G)
5.30 America’s Funniest Home Videos (Rpt, G)
6.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
6.30 Australian Gladiators (Series premiere) (G)
7.30 Baywatch
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Baywatch (Continued)
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: The January Man (1989) (AO)
10.30 2 Sports Action: Lion Red Big League (Winfield Cup 1995)
12.15am The Saturday Late Movie: Nevada Smith (1966) (Rpt, AO)
2.55 The Full Wax (Rpt, AO)
3.30 Top of the Pops (Rpt, G)
4.05 Rescue 111 (aka Rescue 911) (Rpt, PGR)
4.35 Laurel & Hardy Shorts (Rpt, G)
5.10 Rock Sport (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)
TV3
6.30am The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (G)
7.00 Fievel’s American Tails (G)
7.30 Raw Toonage (G)
8.00 Bonkers (G)
8.30 Goof Troop (G)
9.30 Exosquad (G)
10.30 Infomercial
Noon Gone Fishin’ (PGR)
12.30 Woops! (PGR)
1.00 Empty Nest (G)
1.30 The Good Life (G)
2.00 Northern Exposure (PGR)
3.00 Ice TV (G), including:
3.20 Bakersfield PD
4.20 A Touch of Frenzy
5.00 Beverly Hills 90210: The High School Years
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Noel’s House Party (G)
7.30 Family Night at the Movies: Back to the Future, Part II (1989) (PGR)
9.40 Movie: Late for Dinner (1991) (PGR)
11.40 Late Movie: Absolute Strangers (1991) (AO)
1.40am Home Shopping (Continues to 6am)
HBO (Sky Movies)
7.30am Dead in the Water (1991) (GA)
9.00 Black Widow Murders (1992) (GA)
10.30 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993) (G)
Noon Chariots of Fire (1981) (G)
2.00 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (G)
3.30 Enchanted April (1991) (GA)
5.00 Box Office America
5.30 Trust (1991) (GA)
7.15 Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
8.30 Cadbury Saturday Feature: The Fugitive (1993) (GA)
10.40 Patriot Games (1992) (GA)
12.30am Late Night Trash: Critters 3 (1991) (R16)
1.55 Brubaker (1988) (GY)
4.00 Do Not Disturb (1965) (GA)
5.40 Comrades of Summer (1992) (G) (Continues to 7.30am)
Orange
7.00am The Juice Chart Show
10.00 Mother’s Day
10.30 Parents’ Survival Guide
11.00 Jones & Jury
11.30 Alice
Noon NBA Basketball (Conference playoffs, live)
5.00 Road to Avonlea
6.00 McHale’s Navy
6.30 Planet Fashion
7.00 Tilt 23½
7.30 The Real World
8.00 Degrassi Junior High
8.30 Lonesome Dove: The Series
9.30 Tour of Duty
10.30 World Championship Wrestling
11.30 The Juice Late Night
1.00am The Juice Night Train (Continues to 7am)
Horizon Pacific (ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, Southern)
7.00am ATV only: Welcome to Auckland (and at 8am, noon and 11pm)
3.00pm BBC World News
3.30 The Clothes Show
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 The Late Show Saturday Edition
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 Rocket (G)
6.30 The Waltons (G)
7.30 Saturday Night Concert: Peter Gabriel, Secret World
8.30 Mini-Series: Blind Ambition (Part two) (PGR)
10.30 Business Matters
11.00 Closedown
CTV
6.00am Welcome to Canterbury
4.45pm Teletext
5.00 Hopkins on Thursday (Rpt, G)
6.00 CTV Saturday Rugby (G)
7.30 George Balani at 6 (Rpt, G)
8.30 The Outdoor Journal (G)
9.00 The ECM Music Show (G)
10.00 Vid-X-Press (G)
10.30 CTV Saturday Rugby (Rpt, G)
12.00am Closedown, followed by Welcome to Canterbury
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Thursday 20 June 1991
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.15am Teletext in Vision
10.30 Classics on One: Carry On Sergeant (1958) (B&W) (Rpt, G)
Noon ABC World News
12.30 Film on One: Isabel (1988) (AO)
2.30 Matinee on One: Summer of Fear (1978)
4.15 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt, G)
4.45 Emmerdale (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 One World of Sport: Rugby: The Big Game (Cordoba Selection v New Zealand)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.30 For the Love of Mike (Series premiere) (PGR)
10.00 One Network News
10.30 After the War (Final) (AO)
11.40 Butterflies (Rpt, PGR)
12.25am Closedown
Channel 2
6am Teletext in Vision
6.15 Well Loved Tales (G)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Top Cat (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
8.25 Storybook World (G)
8.40 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.05 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.00 Benson (Rpt, G)
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 The Adventures of the Little Koala (G)
3.30 The Snorks (Rpt, G)
4.05 Danger Mouse (Rpt, G)
4.30 C.O.P.S. (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Blind Date
6.30 MAS*H (Rpt, G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Totally Hidden Video (G)
8.00 All Together Now (G)
8.30 Mini-Series: Passion and Paradise (Part two / Final) (AO)
10.30 Dallas (Series return) (PGR)
11.30 Beauty and the Beast (AO)
12.35am Closedown
TV3
Noon NBC Nightly News
12.30 On Trial
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (Rpt, G)
3.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G)
4.00 DuckTales (G)
4.30 Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers (G)
5.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (G)
7.30 The Ralston Group
8.00 Shelley (PGR)
8.30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (PGR)
9.30 Rumpole of the Bailey (PGR)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 The Oldest Rookie (AO)
12.00am Closedown
Sky Movies
Noon Pelle the Conqueror (1988) (English subtitles) (GA)
2.30 Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) (GA)
4.15 The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck (G)
6.00 You Only Live Twice (1967) (GA)
8.00 Barquero! (1970) (GA)
10.00 Lady in White (1988) (R13)
12.00am The World Is Full of Married Men (1972) (R16)
1.43 Closedown
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Saturday 10 July 1993
from the NZ Listener
TV One
8.00am eTV: Psychology: The Study of Human Behaviour (Rpt, G)
8.30 French in Action (Rpt, G)
9.00 Business Matters (G)
9.30 Media Television (G)
10.00 The Civil War (G)
11.00 Burke’s Backyard (G)
Noon It’s a Dog’s Life (G)
12.30 CBS Evening News
1.10 Little Monsters (Rpt, G)
1.50 Gillette World Sport Special (G)
2.20 Sports Funnies (G)
3.00 One World of Sport: Caltex Netball (Live from Hamilton)
4.00 One World of Sport: Rugby: New Zealand’s Big Game
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Country Calendar (G)
7.00 Grace and Favour (PGR)
7.40 Barrymore (Final) (PGR)
8.30 Trust Bank Skellerup Young Farmer of the Year (Live from Palmerston North)
9.30 Mini-Series: Till We Meet Again (Part three / Final) (AO)
11.25 Saturday Film Club: Images (1972) (AO)
1.20am Closedown
Channel 2
6.10am Felix the Cat (Rpt, G)
6.35 Little Shop (G)
7.00 Bobby’s World
7.30 Eek! The Cat (G)
8.00 What Now (G), including:
8.02 Mr Bogus Show/SumTimes Competition
8.20 Young Performer
8.35 Fifi
8.55 Captain Planet and the Planeteers
9.20 Philips Cryptic Clues
9.25 The What Now Wish
9.45 Special Guest
9.55 I Like That One Two
10.10 Doug
10.25 MDV & Sounds Crazy
10.50 The Wheel Deal
11.00 Pepsi RTR Countdown
Noon In Concert: Eric Claption / The Cure (G)
1.00 Saturday Cinema: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) (Rpt, G)
2.55 Evening Shade (G)
3.30 All Together Now (G)
4.00 WKRP in Cincinnati (G)
4.30 A Different World (G)
5.00 Alive and Kicking (G)
5.30 Major Dad (G)
6.00 Deepwater Haven (Series premiere) (G)
6.30 Noel’s House Party (G)
7.30 Celebrity Face the Music
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 New Zealand’s Funniest Home Videos (G)
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: Throw Momma from the Train (1987) (Rpt, AO)
10.15 Dream On (AO)
10.45 Aussie League on 2 (Winfield Cup 1993 highlights)
11.45 Saturday Late Movie: Assassination (1987) (AO)
1.45am Movie: Dressed to Kill (1980) (Rpt, AO)
3.10 Movie: The Earthling (1980) (Rpt, PGR)
4.50 Pepsi RTR Countdown (Rpt)
5.40 Laurel & Hardy (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)
TV3
6.30am The New Adventures of Skippy (Rpt, G)
7.00 Garfield (Rpt, G)
8.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Double episode) (Rpt, G)
9.00 Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters (G)
9.30 My Secret Identity (G)
10.00 The Hound Who Thought He Was a Raccoon (G)
11.00 Robin of Sherwood (Rpt, G)
Noon Movie Matinee: Japanese War Bride (1952) (G)
2.20 Movie Matinee: Come Out Fighting (1945) (B&W) (G)
4.00 The Magical World of Disney The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game (G)
7.45 Family Night at the Movies: American Graffiti (1973) (PGR)
10.15 Reasonable Doubts (AO)
11.15 Night Heat (Rpt, AO)
12.15am Late Movie: Hot Pursuit (1987) (AO)
2.10 Closedown
HBO (Sky Movies)
6.25am The Last Winter (1989) (G)
8.10 The Bounty (1984) (GY)
10.15 Don’t Tell Her It’s Me (1990) (GA)
Noon Nostalgia at Noon: State Fair (1951) (G)
1.45 Memories of Me (1988) (GA)
3.35 Secrets of Life (1956) (G)
5.00 Run (1990) (GA)
6.40 Jaffas"Showtime"
7.00 Cadbury Premiere Gold: Guilty by Suspicion (1991) (GA)
9.00 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (R16)
11.00 Desperate Hours (1990) (R16)
12.45am Popcorn (1993)
2.20 The Night Stalker (1987) (R16)
3.50 The Hot Spot (1990) (R18) (Continues to 6am)
CTV
6.00am Welcome to Canterbury (Repeats at 7am, 8am, straight after closedown and 1am)
10.00 Farming Canterbury (G)
10.45 Trackside (Live racing from Te Awamutu, Trentham and Rangiora)
5.00pm Maverick (PGR)
6.00 Canterbury Top 20 (G)
7.00 CTV Sportsnight (G)
9.00 The Evening Movie: Dead Men Tell No Tales (1971) (AO)
10.45 Canterbury Top 20 (G)
11.45 Closedown
A big budget New Zealand-French-Australian co-production, Deepwater Haven premiered at 6pm on the evening of Saturday 10 July 1993 on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2). It followed the fortunes of Waitemata Harbour tugboat skipper Jack Wilson (played by Vince Martin of Beaurepaires advertising fame) and his two kids, Georgie (Jay Saussey) and Peter (Peter Malloch), over 26 episodes.
In 1994, newcomer Jay Saussey won a New Zealand Film and Television Award - “Best Juvenile Performance - Television” - for her role and the series was nominated for “Best Childrens Programme”.
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Sunday 29 June 1997
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.00am BBC World: BBC World News
6.30 Hard Talk
7.00 BBC World Headlines
7.05 Weekend World: Horizon
8.00 eTV: dis-Abilities
8.30 Asia Dynamic
9.00 Praise Be
9.30 Tagata Pasifika
10.00 Waka Huia
11.00 Marae
Noon The Write Stuff
12.30 Strange But True Encounters (Final) (G)
1.00 As Time Goes By (G)
1.35 Brush Strokes (G)
2.50 UK Today (G)
3.00 Countrywide Bank Grandstand (Includes rugby, tennis, motorsport, jetsprinting)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Our World: Savage Skies (G)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Montana Sunday Theatre: Breakout
10.20 Our Friends in the North (AO)
11.30 Ray Bradbury Theatre (PGR)
11.50 Infomercials
12.50am BBC World: BBC World Debate
1.00 BBC World Headlines
1.05 Breakfast fwith Frost
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 World Focus: Correspondent
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Weekend World: Horizon
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out: Top Gear
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 Reporters (Continues to 6am)
TV2
6.00am Hallo Spencer (G)
6.30 Battletech (G)
6.50 Iznogoud (G)
7.15 Little Mouse on the Prairie (G)
7.30 Sonic the Hedgehog (G)
8.00 What Now, including:
8.25 What a Cartoon! (G)
9.05 Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries (G)
10.00 Coca-Cola Video Hits
Noon Sunday Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (Rpt, PGR)
2.30 Simon (G)
3.00 Rescue (Rescue 911) (PGR)
4.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show (G)
4.30 Step by Step (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Monkees (G)
5.30 In the House (G)
6.00 Harry and the Henderson (G)
6.30 Stars in Their Eyes (Series return) (G)
7.30 Roseanne: The Absolutely Fabulous Episode (PGR)
8.00 How to Be Absolutely Fabulous (PGR)
8.30 Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
10.15 Filthy Rich: Daddy’s Girl
10.45 Movie: Cover Up (1990) (AO)
12.35am Movie: Heart Condition (1990) (Rpt, AO)
2.30 Ren & Stimpy (Rpt, G)
3.00 Behind the Scenes: “The Fifth Element”
3.25 Rocko’s Modern Life (Rpt)
3.55 Love and War (Rpt, PGR)
4.45 Raising Caines
5.10 Boogies Diner (G)
5.35 Kenneth Copeland Daily (G) (Continues to 6am)
TV3
6.00am Music and the Spoken Word (G)
6.30 Hillsongs Australia Presents Life Is for Living (G)
6.55 Animals and Us (G)
7.20 The Magic Box (G)
7.45 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G)
8.10 Muppets Go to the Movies (G)
9.00 Sunday (PGR)
10.00 Beyond 2000 (G)
10.45 Disaster Proof? (G)
11.35 Nissan Gone Fishin’ (PGR)
Noon The Magical World of Disney: Of Muppets and Men (G)
1.05 Movie: American Graffiti (1973) (PGR)
3.30 One Day in Kaitaia
4.30 3 Sport: Super League (Penrith Panthers v Auckland Warriors)
6.15 3 National News
6.30 20/20
7.30 Real TV (PGR)
8.30 Sunday Night at the Movies: Hard Target (1993) (AO)
10.30 3 Sport: Boxing: Tyson v Holyfield (Live)
11.30 Late Movie: The Amy Fisher Story (1993) (Rpt, AO)
1.30am Infomercials
5.30 Benny Hinn (Continues to 6am)
TV4
1.00pm Boxing: Tyson v Holyfield (Live)
4.00 This Is TV4
4.30 Extreme Comedy (G)
5.30 Singled Out (G)
6.30 Beverly Hills 90210 (Double episode) (G/PGR)
8.30 Movie: Reality Bites (1994) (AO)
10.30 David Bowie & Friends: A Very Special Concert (PGR)
12.20am Closedown
HBO (Sky Movies)
7.00am Born to Be Wild (1994) (G)
8.45 Love Story (1970) (PG)
10.30 Box Office America
11.00 Milk Money (1994) (M)
12.45pm Convict Cowboy (1995) (M)
2.30 The 1997 MTV Movie Awards
4.15 Funny Bones (1995) (M)
6.30 The River Wild (1994) (M)
8.30 HBO Blockbuster Premiere: While You Were Sleeping (1995) (PG)
10.15 Braveheart (1995) (R16)
1.05am Milk Money (1994) (M)
2.50 Love Story (1970 (PG)
4.30 In the Mouth of Madness (1994) (M) (Continues to 6.15am)
Orange
6.00am Cartoon Network: World Famous Toons
7.00 The Popeye Show
7.30 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
8.00 The Tom & Jerry Show
8.30 Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
9.00 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
9.30 Big Bag
10.30 Timeless Tales: Rumplestiltzkin
11.00 Goober and the Ghost Chasers
11.30 The Bugs & Daffy Show
12.30pm Dog House: 2 Stupid Dogs/Marmaduke
1.00 Cow & Chicken
1.30 The Addams Family
2.00 Dynomutt
2.30 The Jetsons
3.00 Young Robin Hood
3.30 Goldie Gold and Action Jack
4.00 Prisoner, Cell Block H
5.00 The Flying Nun
5.30 The Six Million Dollar Man
6.30 The A-Team
7.30 Quantum Leap
8.30 Orange at the Movies: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) (M)
10.15 Something Is Out There
11.15 The Kenny Everett Show
12.15am The Juice Music Television (Continues to 6am)
On 2 October 1996, TV3 Network Services Ltd (now MediaWorks TV) announced a reshuffling of its broadcast frequencies to allow it to launch a new network, to be known as TV4, on the VHF band.
TV4 was a free-to-air network aimed at a younger audience than TV3 (now Three) and opened at 1pm on the afternoon of Sunday 29 June 1997 with live coverage of the controversial Tyson-Holyfield boxing rematch. The launch was considered successful, with high brand recognition and ratings significantly higher than MTV, TV4’s television rival.
MTV, under licence from MTV Networks (now ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks and ViacomCBS Networks International respectively), took over broadcasting on TVNZ’s Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV) stations at 5pm on the evening of Thursday 2 July 1997.
The New Zealand version of MTV was basically a direct feed of the MTV UK service, which was launched on 1 July 1997, with the inclusion of locally made programmes such as Havoc (with Mikey Havoc and Jeremy Wells, otherwise known as “Newsboy”), Wrekognize (with DLT and DJ Sir-Vere as hosts), a repeat of Mai Time from TV2 (now TVNZ 2), and Squeeze (with Francesca Rudkin).
Unfortunately, MTV closed its doors on Sunday 7 June 1998 at midnight as TVNZ’s licensing agreement with MTV Networks ended. Rick Ellis, CEO of TVNZ at the time, said MTV was a bold experiment on the part of TVNZ which had not met the critical viewership targets anticipated at launch.
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How did this happen and did TV4 have equivalent coverage to TV3?
Didn’t realise this was on TV2 for a time. Always associated it with TV3, but maybe that’s just when I became cognisant of TV and watching it myself.
Funny to see this as Saturday morning fare here, when Prime was purchased by Channel Nine it ended up in primetime!
I remember this being huge - and with the controversy surrounding it, it was a good advertisement for TV4.
Despite this, the network never really found its way.
Only going off memory here, but I don’t think so - initially at least.
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I watched TV4 then, on that day. Notably, because the boxing went longer than scheduled, and “This is TV4” never went to air. Dunno if they chucked it on late at night, maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, who knows?
NZ’s VHF band was planned for three services, typically there was one channel on VHF Band I, leaving vast chunks of VHF III for the other two, and the odd bit of infill, so shuffling TV3, often at the top end of the spectrum, left VHF11 in most places free for TV4.
11 was so far up the dial, my old Pye TV couldn’t handle it (from Sugarloaf, Christchurch), I had to bodge an aerial out of aluminum wire and pointed it toward Cave Hill (Timaru) to get it!
Coverage was reasonable, it got all the major places, although places like Taranaki, Wanganui, Gisborne, and Westland didn’t get it; maximum reach was about 75% of the population. This was more than MTV, which had only the five main centres.
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Dunno how well you know NZ, but this might give an idea of Frequency use…
TV4 was typically sandwiched at either end of the Band. Of course, in 1997 not all of the UHF channels were in use.
Edit: I should note, these are frequencies used at bigger transmitters for bigger-populated places. But I think from memory it’s got all TV4’s ones.
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Going into the fight, it was always going to be big - the original fight nearly went the distance and the ear biting in this one has become a thing of legend.
Did TV4 carry any other fights?
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Not from memory, just that one to launch it.
They showed very little sport, a few five-dayers when TV3 had the cricket is about all I can remember, until they became C4 way down the track, then they used to show the V8 Supercars when the news was on TV3… that would be eight-ten years ago now, maybe?
Interesting strategy to launch a channel, although I’d imagine it would have attracted viewers
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Yes, from memory the 1997/98 tour to Australia, TV4 showed the tests and TV3 the one-dayers?
The channel quickly became a dumping ground of all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff as well as some dreck. It did give Buffy a primetime home which was a positive.
But it was probably best described as a multichannel well before there were multichannels (like they are today in Australia).
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Shuffling of TV frequencies. Does that mean that TV3 in places such as Auckland were on a different frequency before TV4 came along?
I’m not sure about Auckland. It was mostly infill frequencies that were bumped around, I think, to give a clear channel between the top or bottom end. You’ll notice in my graphic above, that TV4 used Ch1 in Central Auckland (Skytower), despite TVOne beaming across greater Auckland on Ch2 (Waiatarua)… so it wasn’t a pretty solution, but it seemed to work (probably with alternative polarities and lower power-output for TV4 to reduce interference - which was the case in Christchurch/Canterbury (Sugarloaf)).