Beauty and the Geek Australia season 8 premieres on TVNZ2 this Friday (January 13) at 8.30pm, right after The Amazing Race Australia.
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Surprise, surprise, tvnz files opposition claim against vodafone’s one-nz trademark (RNZ)
I noticed if you turn the Suncorp logo inside-out, you get the same thing - mildly amusing.
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One of Joseph Parker’s boxing fights is airing on Three & Threenow on January 22.
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Good sign of how far Parker has fallen. Three presumably won’t even be able to show ads during it.
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So True! The article refers to him always wanting a fight on free to air I bet his manager David Higgins doesn’t think that behind closed doors.
No - guessing his last PPV didn’t sell well!
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Sunday morning so no ads as per rules but once past midday probably yes. TVNZ started showing ads for it’s bout in Nov after midday I recall.
Yes - although they did manage to get around it (well, they copped a minimal fine which would have been far outweighed by the revenue) for the 2007 World Cup, although I suspect they won’t bother this time.
Nothing in this section applies to any programme broadcast on television, where the signal for that programme—
(a)
originates outside New Zealand; and
(b)
is produced and transmitted simultaneously to both New Zealand audiences and audiences outside New Zealand; and
(c)
is targeted primarily at audiences outside New Zealand.
If they are taking a warts and all feed they might be able to argue it. No idea why it’s still part of the law!
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I think NBC Universal were pulling the channel off Foxtel and moving selected content to the 7Bravo channel in Australia. Since the NZ channel was essentially the Australian one the plug has been pulled here to. I wonder if the content (if it wasn’t already) will pop up on Bravo over here.
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In October last year, NBCUniversal partnered with Australia’s Channel Seven to launch a new channel known as 7Bravo.
7Bravo, which began broadcasting recently, is the home of reality television and true crime and utilising the best of E!, Bravo and Oxygen, which are fully owned by NBCUniversal.
It is available in HD in metropolitan and regional areas through Seven’s O&O stations: ATN Sydney, HSV Melbourne, BTQ Brisbane, SAS Adelaide, TVW Perth, STQ Regional Queensland, AMV Victoria, NEN Northern NSW, CBN Southern NSW and PTV Mildura. SCA Seven and WIN Television stations as well as Seven Regional WA do not carry 7Bravo.
Back here, E! has stopped broadcasting on Sky but Sky Go and Sky On Demand offer a selection of programmes previously seen on E!.
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When did E! launch in New Zealand
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@Bas_Tech April 2002. E! has been broadcasting on Sky in New Zealand for more than 20 years.
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@PaddyTePou I was surprised to know that E! in New Zealand had been broadcasting more than the Australian E!.
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That’s correct, I think.
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Due to Prime’s live coverage of Australian Open tennis, season 3 of Five Bedrooms will now make its NZ premiere next Tuesday (January 24) at 8.30pm.
It will be followed by the FTA premiere of House of the Dragon season one at 9.30pm.
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I reckon Prime should gone back to complete channel kind of focus and more focus on independent output deals and they should get a first film output deal. If SKY have not purchased Prime, TVNZ would have gotten the Olympic Games from 2010-2022 and TVNZ would have scored the rights to 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Will SKY offload FTA coverage to bigger broadcasters of major sporting events and leave a lesser known ones on Prime. I had thinking at some point that ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) should buy Prime if SKY willing to sell the channel off if it becomes unprofitable for them, later TVNZ gotten the rights to Paramount global newer programmes. I am now thinking that Comcast should buy Prime.
Three are back to their regular screen bug.
NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast, is shared between TVNZ and Sky. Since E! ceased broadcasting on Sky, a selection of E! content is available on Sky Go, Sky On Demand and via Bravo, a joint venture between NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery NZ (which owns Three, eden, Rush, HGTV and Newshub). There are no plans for Comcast to acquire Prime, which has been fully owned and operated by Sky since 2006 and provided a home for free-to-air sport.
But Prime TV now serves as a promotional FTA showcase for Sky’s pay-TV attractions. Prime TV was a better channel 10 or 20 years ago, when Australia’s Nine Network had a share on a channel which had many Channel 9 productions aired on the network such as The Block, Backyard Blitz, A Current Affair, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and National Nine News and the owner Prime Television Limited in Australia had starting to produce more NZ made content for the network in the later years for the ownership and acquired US Premium drama Deadwood and getting UK series Top Gear. Australia’s Nine Network had a option to buy 50 per cent of the New Zealand network held by Australia’s Nine Network is resolved, but they never resolved that Prime ended up putting it for sale and SKY brought it soon after over a other offer CanWest MediaWorks (owner of TV3 around the time). If CanWest MediaWorks had brought Prime what would NZ TV be like Today?
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