Kinda curious that looking at Sky’s guide, only goes as far as a week as it’d usually do [though shorter than the week and a half main channels get]… except for the evening where the second Ashes test starts. Perhaps a minor revamp in store for Duke with the TVNZ sport deals kicking in?
In the meantime, they’re going through the Fast and the Furious anthology one movie a night, starting Sunday evening… would let them burn off all ten instalments of that (up to F9) pretty cleanly the night before the Ashes, presuming they have the rights to all of them.
Seems like TVNZ is quietly retiring the use of the Heihei name for its children programming. Checked the hub on TVNZ+ tonight and it had rebranded to a generic “Tamariki” one. The Heihei bubble has also been removed from many of the thumbnails of its originals as well.
The website is still up for now (HEIHEI Games) but I’d imagine it’ll be gone after the holidays.
With the closure of Spark Sport, the sports section of TVNZ+ has recently been added. Many of the sports previously covered by Spark Sport are now live and free on TVNZ+ from today (1 July), but the number of major sporting events, including cricket, are available on TVNZ’s linear channels (TVNZ 1 & DUKE).
Here is the hypothetical situation of SPTV have not merged into TVNZ in 1980 then the Government would have to sell the channel to Australian businessman Kerry Packer who runs PBL during Rogermonics in the 80s.
TVNZ regaining Love Island has paid off for its streaming platform TVNZ+, becoming the most streamed show on it. The recent addition of sports to it’s service is only going to strengthen TVNZ+ and leave ThreeNow in its dust.
BBC documentary series Rainbow Warrior: Murder in the Pacific premieres on TVNZ1 on Monday, July 10 at 9.30pm. It will also be shown on SBS in Australia at 8.25pm Wednesdays from July 5.
I wonder how much of that is down to Coro and how much is anything after 9:30 on FTA being a dead zone now. The Three ratings were also bad.
Coro isn’t gaining viewers year on year though and it’s dramatically tumbled in the last 20 years as its audience - sorry to be morbid - literally died off and didn’t get replaced due to changing viewer habits and interests. Will be interesting to see TVNZ’s approach.
These ratings don’t include people who record. I reckon Coronation Street would be a heavily time-shifted show and also I remember seeing that it does well on TVNZ+.
That’s true, plus the figures in the article are based on the 25-54 demo alone. There would be a much larger audience in 55+ I would think, always an older skewing show. I think they repeat it in the afternoons as well, might bump it up a bit.
As least 55+ could not watch it after 9.30 because they scheduled it after they retreat in bed. If the RNZ-TVNZ merger gone ahead they could have been put back in the 7.30 slot.
Or alternatively had TV One have not messed around time slots they did in the 2010s and not dipped in the ratings the show would have continued to air at 7.30
Perhaps a minor revamp in store for Duke with the TVNZ sport deals kicking in?
