On that note, are all other main channels in NZ in HD?
According to an interview Martin Stewart gave on NewsTalk ZB this morning, TVNZ will have both live and delayed coverage though the exact details are still to be worked out
Might be Prime Plus 1!lol
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Oh, donāt! Just donāt! 
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More or less;
HD
TVNZ1
TVNZ2
TVNZDuke
+HR=E
+HR=E Life
Whakata Maori / Maori Television
Te Reo
Only missing were really Prime, Choice and I guess Bravo. The rest are really to niche or too miserly to bother with (or radio).
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Three in a rowā¦ sorry. Had a look in the Historic Thread but couldnāt see any generic NZ page (only one for TV3) and as I canāt start threads, Iām dumping these hereā¦
Iāve spent the last four months on and off compiling bits of NZ TV from old VHS Tapes, mainly from the 1990s, of which you can now see on YouTube.
TV One, TV2, TV3, TV4, Prime, and a Few Others (CTV, Cry TV, Some older logo BBC World and some SKY TV ads).
Or spend about an hour watching all six in succession here (hopefully).
Iāve some more footage from more recent times, but as thereās plenty of that on YouTube already, I donāt know if Iāll bother uploading it.
Enjoy!
Admins, if you feel like it, you can make a thread in History and chuck this there.
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Only had a chance to watch the TV1 version thus far.
What was the audio being played over the top of the One logo right at the end of the first montage (before the 96-99 look)? Sounded like a radio station?
The Together Weāre One song still gets stuck in my head on occasion now! Would be far too cheesy to come back now of course, but I still love it.
Yep, tell me about itā¦ but āTogether weāre Oneā's got nothing on Primeās āThis is where we liveā for earworminess.
I think the radio station would have been National Radio (as it was then). The recording didnāt last long enough to hear a station ID, but from that one and another, where they played some song from the 1940ās, I doubt it would be anything else, even at that time of night.
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So Prime is officially (finally) broadcasting in HD on Freeview: http://www.screenscribe.net/channels/prime-to-go-hd-on-freeview/ and will finally join Freeview LIVE streaming this Friday!!
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A dying business buying an all-but-dead one. What could possibly go wrong?
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Economies of scale, co-productions etc. Makes sense.
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It also means Sevenās programs which are scattered across several NZ channels (e.g. My Kitchen Rules, Home and Away) can be consolidated at one place.
It will affect Sevenās collaboration with TVNZ however. One Lane Bridge could be the last co-production between Seven and TVNZ.
It would also make Seven even more āattractiveā for a potential buyer if itās put up for sale itself in the future
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So do we assume Three would be rebranded as 7?
Would we finally be rid of the awful Three Now? TVNZ Ondemand vs 7plus would be a good fight.
Iām glad itās not Sky as some were predicting.
Cue Seven News NZ ASAP.
I very much doubt there would be any change of name, maybe a new logo down the track but Three will stick around whoever buys the channel IMO.
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No. Or at least I highly, highly Doubt it. Still brand equity in Three and none in seven (not to mention the confusion around a channel called Seven would cause around needin to reshuffle Sky/Freeview number allocations).
Would probably bolster the ThreeNow library which has been left behind big time by TVNZ OD and honestly even Sky Goās free component.
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Sky Go has a free component? Is it any goodā¦?
Wouldnāt it just be NZ On Air funded stuff on Prime?