Australia has Five Primary Free-to-air compared to New Zealand’s Three, Does’nt TVNZ 1 & 2 count as Primary Channels?
New Zealand has five - depending on your POV.
TVNZ1/2/Three/Prime/Bravo.
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Plus Maori TV -6.
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The UK Has BBC/ITV/Channel 4/Channel 5 and the US have ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/The CW/PBS
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The frequencies for Rush and a plus one channel for Gusto were previously assigned to Edge TV and Breeze TV. It was never likely that MediaWorks would be able to hold onto these channels for its radio brands after selling its TV arm to Discovery.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/tv3-goes-for-yet-another-makeover
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Looks like I’m headed back to YouTube for music videos now that Breeze is going. Devastated.
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What about the edge?
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Is this fact or speculation though? I read the article and found it hard to tell.
It assumes they keep on with all the plus 1 channels. If they kept +HR=E+1 only and ditched the rest, they’d still have room for the music channels. How well do the plus 1’s rate these days?
I suspect that the music channels will not stick around in the long term as they are run by Mediaworks and the very rare advertising that is seen on both music channels will not bring in enough money to make the channels viable. The Edge is also in HD and I’m guessing that they’ll want to make Gusto HD instead, so Edge will either go back to SD or just disappear.
With that being said, maybe Discovery might want to keep the channels and rebrand them to seperate them from Mediaworks’ radio brands. If they do, I hope they put in more effort than what Mediaworks currently does.
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In other news, The 2021 Aotearoa Music Awards will be held in December and will be broadcast live on TVNZ 2 instead of Three.
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Nominees have also been announced.
https://aotearoamusicawards.nz/aotearoa-music-awards-announce-2021-finalists/
The last New Zealand Music awards broadcast on TVNZ was 2002
Wow, that’s big. The music awards have become quite an institution for Three.
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Probably lost the contract when Discovery bought TV3. I see Mediaworks is still a media partner with its radio/outdoor brands.
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Season 5 of The Real Housewives of Melbourne premieres on Bravo next Tuesday (November 16) at 8.30pm.
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Expect to see NZME (ZM/TheHits/ Flava etc.) talent used at the awards this time round with NZME people usually appearing on TVNZ shows. Though I see The Edge sponsoring one of the awards.
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Who will host this years awards?
Sky announced on Monday that it had retained the exclusive rights for the A-Leagues football competitions on a multi-year deal ahead of the coming season.
Every game will be shown live on Sky’s multiple broadcast and streaming platforms while selected games will be available live free to air on Prime, including the Phoenix’s double header against Western Sydney Wanderers on December 3.
Sky said it would use a New Zealand-based commentary team for Phoenix home games and other key matches.
The Phoenix’s FFA Cup round of 32 game against Western United on December 7 was not included in the broadcast deal.
Spark Sport holds the broadcast rights for the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, English Premier League and FA Women’s Super League.
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The 17th season of The Block, which recently finished in Australia, premieres on THREE this Sunday (November 21) at 7pm, continuing on Mondays-Wednesdays. This season featured two returning team: Mitch and Mark (season 15) & Ronnie and Georgia (season 13). Joining them are new teams Tanya and Vito, Josh and Luke & Kirsty and Jesse.
Gibney revealed on The Project on Channel 10 tonight that Under the Vines is coming soon to Acorn.
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I anticipated that it will be a good and hopefully a funny show