He was pretty scathing about traditional TV news when the Newshub closure was announced and that included TVNZ. Will make interactions with Jodie O’Donnell interesting after she highlighted how well 6pm news was doing last week.
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Agreed, this reeks of ACT’s influence (he spoke at their conference last year).
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Dean O’Gorman (After the Party, The Hobbit) and Simone Kessell (Yellowjackets, Obi-Wan Kenobi) are among the cast added to Ms. X, the six-part crime comedy-drama for Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) New Zealand free TV network Three and streamer ThreeNow starring Melissa George.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars premieres on Three on Friday, July 11, at 2.55pm. It was first shown in Australia in March 2024.
6-part Channel 5 series Great British Cities premieres on TVNZ 1 this Sunday, July 6, at 2pm.
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Thanks to the Paramount-Skydance merger deal which set to kick in on Monday (US time), Sky will lose most of its Paramount pay-tv channels which are:
- Comedy Central
- MTV Hits
- MTV 80s
- Nickelodeon
- Nick Jr.
A date for the channel closures hasn’t been announced, but it’s been confirmed these channels will close this year.
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Will these channels simply disappear and not appear on another streaming platform?
With the channels closing in NZ, it will be interesting to see if they are removed from Fetch as well.
Just like Foxtel, Sky and satellite TV as a whole is dying a slow and painful death. Bit of a shame to see half the kids channels wiped out with this (only Cartoon Network and Cbeebies will be left after the Nick channels are culled), hopefully one of the generically branded channels the article’s implying Sky has up its sleeve will alleviate that.
It has been a very long since WBD (Three) last had any form of broadcast rights for cricket:
THREENOW ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO BLACKCAPS’ TOUR OF ZIMBABWE
Monday, 7 July 2025 - New Zealand cricket fans will be able to watch the national team live and free this July and August as the BLACKCAPS tour Zimbabwe.
ThreeNow has secured the rights to the T20I tri-series, featuring the BLACKCAPS, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as a two-match Test series between the BLACKCAPS and Zimbabwe. The T20I tri-series will commence 14 July 2025, with each team playing four matches over a two-week period. The top two teams will then compete in the final on July 26.
The Test series, which marks the first Test between the BLACKCAPS and Zimbabwe since 2016, promises to be a highly anticipated event.
All matches will be live and in their entirety on ThreeNow, with the T20I series taking place at 11pm (NZT) and the Test series at 8pm (NZT).
“We are stoked to have secured these rights, allowing fans to enjoy these exciting matches live and free,” says Warner Bros. Discovery Senior Director, Content ANZ, Matt Barthow. “Sport is an important pillar of our content offering, bringing large audiences together in real time and creating shared national moments.”
“We are thrilled that New Zealand’s ThreeNow will screen the highly anticipated Test matches between Zimbabwe and New Zealand, marking an historic encounter almost a decade since their last red ball clash,” says Zimbabwe Cricket Managing Director, Givemore Makoni. “Additionally, the T20I tri-series is a fantastic opportunity for passionate fans to witness world class cricket and we’re counting down the days until the first ball."
New Zealand Cricket Chief Executive, Scott Weenink says: “We are delighted that Warner Bros. Discovery’s ThreeNow will bring these action-packed series to New Zealand fans. We expect the competition to be fierce, and we know the BLACKCAPS will give their all in pursuit of victory.”
The full schedule of matches is as follows:
Monday 14 July Zimbabwe v South Africa 11pm
Wednesday 16 July South Africa v BLACKCAPS 11pm
Friday 18 July Zimbabwe v BLACKCAPS 11pm
Sunday 20 July Zimbabwe v South Africa 11pm
Tuesday 22 July BLACKCAPS V South Africa 11pm
Thursday 24 July Zimbabwe v BLACKCAPS 11pm
Saturday 26 July FINAL (teams TBC) 11pm
Wednesday 30 July BLACKCAPS V Zimbabwe 8pm
Thursday 7 August BLACKCAPS V Zimbabwe 8pm
-ENDS-
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Yeah, sure it is 
The broadcast times of these matches aren’t too unfavourable for kiwi audiences, why not stick them on the liner channel also? Probably better than whatever else they’re airing to be fair.
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2023 - tour of Bangladesh by NZ.
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Forgot that one
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Is it just on ThreeNow then rather than linear?
Yes.
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It will be interesting to see if Three will rush the true crime documentary Murder by Mushroom to air, following the guilty verdict against Erin Patterson this afternoon. It premieres in Australia tomorrow night (July 8).
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Sky has renewed its partnership with Media & Sponsorship Sales (MASS) to continue representing its advertising sales in Australia, extending the 11-year partnership between the two companies.
https://www.adnews.com.au/news/sky-nz-extends-australian-advertising-sales-partnership
On this coming Monday on three.
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The Australian version of Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee premieres on Three on Thursday, July 17 at 7.30pm. Guy returns as host with Aaron Chen as his sidekick.
Three’s broadcast begins with season one, which has eight episodes, and first aired on the ABC in August last year. Contestants included Tom Gleeson, Urzila Carlson, Peter Helliar, Tim Minchin, Wil Anderson, Luke McGregor and Rhys Nicholson.
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How long has tvnz+ had a mascot? Is busy dancing in the background at Wellington (Phoenix vs Wrexham)
Dark watermark on tv2, not sure about it, disappears easily
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With Comedy Central closing on Fetch earlier this year, would this mean the localised ANZ Comedy Central feed would shut completely?
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