Had a trip into Auckland CBD today and got a photo of the TVNZ Studios 
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More Maori TV shows
Te Ao Toa
A bilingual one-hour sports programme discussing the latest sports news from a Māori perspective. New series, Sundays, 5.00pm.
Caps
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TV3 need to hire their graphic design person immediately!
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https://www.screenscribe.net/hot-off-the-press-release-tvnz-2-refreshes-primetime-menu/
Masterchef Australia moving to TV2 this year, Home and Away shifting an hour later.
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TVNZ2 will be the first channel in the world to show BOTH MasterChef and MKR on the same night.
To achieve that, TVNZ2 is showing more episodes of MKR this week and next week, including a double episode next Monday night (June 22).
https://www.screenscribe.net/schedule-alert-extra-helpings-of-mkr/
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It’s tanking big time in the ratings so they are burning it off quickly.
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So following the same trend that it did in Australia this year.
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Yep
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It’s quite an achievement for Seven to have a show tank in two countries by butchering its format
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They’ve had enough of Pete’s shenanigans so employed Melbourne’s tactics.
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Interesting to see CBSN opening up to New Zealand as well.
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I had a first generation Apple TV until recently and I was able to access CBSN on it. It was a pre-installed app.
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TVNZ have snatched America’s Got Talent from Three, I thought they would of held onto this for their Saturday night schedule but I guess Three saw otherwise:
https://www.screenscribe.net/tvnz-2s-got-americas-got-talent/
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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: 1 News NZ
TVNZ channels knocked partially off the air this afternoon due to fire alarm at their base.
TVNZ froze on a State Insurance ad and then cut to black for about five minutes before ads resumed.
TVNZ2 seemed to freeze on stills of ads for a few minutes around 2:50, before going to a still of the TVNZ1 rolling ball ident.
Both channels have jumped back into programming where they should be, missing the starts of Tipping Point and Shortland Street on 1/2.
Duke was fine until it took an ad break and obviously couldn’t return to programme after, now displaying this slide despite the others being back on air:
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Is anybody having some hard hearing to the audio on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ 2?
SKY RENEWS SATELLITE DEAL WITH MORE FLEXIBILITY
Sky has agreed a revised contract with Optus that delivers satellite capability for the next ten years, with the ability to flex the transponder capacity taken by Sky over the term of the arrangement with corresponding cost savings, and exciting new functionality.
Signature of this revised contract enables Optus to commit to build and launch the first of a new breed of software-defined Ku-band satellites that will deliver greater functionality compared to the existing D1 satellite. The game-changing ‘Optus 11’ satellite is fully configurable in space, meaning its coverage, bandwidth and capacity can be changed in orbit as customer demands evolve – where traditional satellites are limited by on-ground configurations that cannot be altered after launch.
Optus has today informed its investors that the Sky commitment allows it to proceed with the launch programme, with the new software-defined satellite scheduled to be ready for use in late 2023.
The new satellite, which will be deployed in the same geostationary orbital location as the D1 satellite, allows Sky and Freeview to continue to share the same satellite. This will maintain satellite distribution as a cost effective and reliable distribution platform for the whole of New Zealand.
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Does this mean Freeview Satellite will finally go HD? Does anyone on here know please?
10 part documentary series Inside Taronga Zoo, narrated by Naomi Watts, premieres on TVNZ1 next Tuesday (July 7) at 7.30pm. It was shown on Nine in Australia earlier this year as Taronga: Who’s Who in the Zoo.
More information about this show can be found at Taronga Zoo website
Potentially, but don’t hold your breath. Optus11 won’t be launched for years yet.