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Oh thanks, Paddy! These look great!

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PROGRAMMING CHANGES:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Plus Nightscreen will not be seen tonight (17th April 2021), so that Plus can relay BBC News coverage of the funeral of Prince Phillip, The Duke Of Edinburgh. These programmes will be seen tomorrow night, displacing Sunday’s episode of Ally McBeal to next week.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

DISCLAIMER: Plus (Plus Television New Zealand Ltd) is a fictional broadcaster and does not broadcast to New Zealand, as it is fictitious and imaginary. These changes are to be in line with those at other NZ networks. Thank you for understanding.

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COMPANY NEWS
I have decided that Plus Extra will take a block style of scheduling, with children’s programming during the day, programming for teens in the late afternoon/early evening, and programs for adults at night. Here’s a general timeframe for how this will work:

  • The Hub (5am-5pm) - Children’s programming from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and international sources. A preschool block (known as HubBub) will air from 9am (which lines up nicely to Wakey Wakey! over on the main channel) to 2pm weekdays during term time. Selected family movies (G and PG-rated) will air during the day on weekends and school holidays.

  • Trouble (5pm-11pm) - Expanded version of the existing Plus block. Teen shows/movies will air during this time, including new episodes of Home and Away half an hour after their Plus airing. As a result of Trouble’s expansion, the Plus block will be discontinued. However, Trouble Top 10 will remain on Plus and will be simulcast on Plus Extra at the same time.

  • Cube (11pm-5am) - This part of the channel will include shows and movies which have too much of a niche to be aired on the main channel. Stuff like pop culture programmess, sci-fi shows, anime, that kind of stuff.

The channel will officially be referred to as Plus Extra in TV guides, press releases, and EPGs. However, on-screen, each subchannel will have its own branding and graphical differences (including DOGs). Hopefully, this isn’t too confusing for our audience to follow.

What do you guys think of Plus Extra? Thought it would set us out from the crowd.

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Oh btw, I have decided to cancel the website development because I am both lazy and a noob at making websites. Go figure.

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@LiamP The Hub is identical to the CPTV (Children’s PTV) channel. I mean, from my point of view, CPTV is on air from:

  • Sunday to Thursday (school term only): 5am to 9pm
  • Friday, Saturday and school holidays: 5am to around 11pm

Mini CPTV, a block of safe and educational programming for preschoolers in a commercial-free environment, runs from 5-6am and again from 8.30am-3pm on weekdays (school term only). The shows within the Mini CPTV block, which is also shown on weekends and during school and public holidays from 5-7am, ​are developed by early childhood specialists to stimulate young minds and encourage learning.

Along with Mini CPTV, the CPTV channel offers a full range of programming for children of school age (i.e. popular animation and live-action series from a variety of international sources, alongside a handful of New Zealand made programmes for younger viewers) in the early morning and afternoon. After 6pm, CPTV’s schedule features programming for the rest of the family, including science shows, nature documentaries, tween dramas and sitcoms, running through to closedown at 9pm.

Family movies (classified G and PG respectively) screen in a ‘double feature’ format from 7pm every Friday and Saturday, running through to a later closedown, and there is a matinee movie at 1pm every Saturday and Sunday. Over the school holidays, family movies will air at the following times:

  • Sunday at 9pm
  • Monday to Thursday at 1pm and 9pm
  • Friday at 1pm and 7pm/9pm

When it comes to New Zealand content, I have some developments on the agenda for the CPTV channel.

  • Two new interactive shows (to be produced at the Avalon Television Studios in Wellington) for after school and Saturdays. These shows will feature links between various segments (i.e. games, guests and competitions) and programming in the CPTV schedule.
  • A weekly magazine show similar in format to “Blue Peter” from the BBC and “Spot On” from the old NZBC/TVNZ era. This show will be targeted at kids aged 6-14 and have different segments where the presenters will show them how to make things, how to care for their pets, and other features. It will also be produced at the Avalon Television Studios in Wellington.
  • A series of ‘filler’ programmes or interstitials across different titles (most of these seen on HEIHEI through TVNZ OnDemand, in real life). Each programme/interstitial is about 4 or 9 minutes in duration, depending on the format, and designed to fill gaps in the CPTV schedule. Titles include “Custard’s World”, “The Drawing Show”, “Flash”, “Kai Five”, “Tamariki Takeover”, “What’s Your Problem?” and much more.
  • A new weekday series for preschoolers within the Mini CPTV block. Called “Camilla & Friends”, this show will be similar in format to “Here’s Humphrey” from Australia and featuring Camilla the gorilla (formerly of “What Now” fame) and various human presenters. Preschool children will join Camilla at her home in the ‘mighty jungle’ for adventures, singing, dancing, fun, games and toys to play with.
  • A new series of 150 x 4 minute programmes/interstitials from the creator of “The Moe Show”. Called “Moe Time”, this programme/interstitial will be played on the hour and half hour as part of the Mini CPTV block and feature Moe and his friends (Fern, Gilbert and Frank).
  • A daily news show called “Newsround” is planned. It will be produced in Auckland by the PTV News and Current Affairs department and presented in a child-friendly manner, making it easy for children aged 6-14 to understand and to gain an interest in the news. Backed by a team of New Zealand’s emerging young journalists, “Newsround” will air weekdays at 5.35pm and cover various topics, which include news, sport, entertainment and lifestyle, in a 15 minute format. There will also be a compilation weekly programme which will go to air Sundays at 5.30pm and run for 30 minutes.

Talking of HubBub, a 1pm finish may be a bit too early. How about 3pm?

And what do you think of the CPTV channel?

DISCLAIMER: PTV Network New Zealand (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises Ltd) and Plus (Plus Media Ltd) are fictional broadcasters and will not broadcast to New Zealand, as they are fictitious and imaginary. Thank you for understanding.

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Okay first of all,

That’s true but you can never have too many children’s channels, especially on free-to-air. I mean, ABC in Australia does it (ABC Kids and ABC Me) and look how well they’re doing! Besides, I’m not looking to make original programming as of yet, you seem to have that base covered so I’ll leave you to it.

How about we meet in the middle and go with 2pm? 3pm seems a little late since Trouble signs on the air two hours later.

It looks great! I especially like the Blue Peter style show. Make sure to put this on your main PTV thread so everyone else can see it.

I think that answers all your questions quite nicely.

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So does the BBC and ITV in Britain - i.e. CBBC and CITV. I describe the CPTV channel as a ‘New Zealand version’ of CITV, which, in real life, is ‘the award-winning channel that inspires and entertains Britain’s children’.

CITV is fully funded by advertising and last year reached over 1.6 million children aged 4-15 every month, which is more than any other commercial children’s channel in the UK during its normal broadcast hours (6am-9pm local time).

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That too.

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PROGRAMMING CHANGES
Due to viewer demand, we have decided to extend Plus News at 6:30 to an entire hour. It will now be renamed Plus News at 6.

Unfortunately, we have had to remove one of our soap operas to make way for this. As such, Home and Away (weekdays at 6pm), will move to Plus Extra (during the Trouble portion) at the same time. Neighbours will remain at it’s usual time at 5:30.

A reminder that it is just over a month until we introduce our winter lineup. We have made some further changes to our schedule.

Saturday night’s Animation Domination block will remove Paradise PD and Brickleberry (10pm and 10:30pm respectively) so that we can make room for new episodes of Duncanville (which will air at 9pm, pushing programmes above it up) and the new comedy series Housebroken (airing at 10:30pm to close the block). The Great North (8:30pm) will also be replaced by the final season of Bless the Harts)

Here’s what the new lineup will look like:
7pm - Futurama
7:30pm - King of the Hill
8pm - Bob’s Burgers
8:30pm - Bless The Harts (NEW)
9pm - Duncanville (NEW)
9:30pm - Family Guy
10pm - American Dad (NEW)
10:30pm - Housebroken (NEW SHOW)

Sunday’s lineup will now be joined by the Plus Sunday Movie, airing at 9pm after the Wonderful World of Disney. This slot will begin with a marathon of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Friday’s lineup will still remain the same.

These changes to the lineup will begin from the 31st of May 2021, as stated previously.

DISCLAIMER: Plus (Plus Television New Zealand Ltd) is a fictional broadcaster and will not broadcast to New Zealand, as it is fictitious and imaginary. Thank you for understanding.

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@LiamP I have two options for you.

OPTION 1
“Plus News at Six” will run for a full hour and screen Monday to Friday at 6pm. Double headed presentation will be required, and the hour-long format gives its viewers full coverage of the day’s events from New Zealand and around the world.

The weekend edition of “Plus News at Six” will be half an hour long with single headed presentation, and greater emphasis within the weekend bulletin will be given to sports news.

“Plus News at Six” will be reduced to a half hour bulletin on public holidays and during the Christmas and New Year holiday period.

OPTION 2
“Plus News at Six” will be aired every night of the week from 6-7pm and double headed presentation MUST be required. The hour-long format will provide all New Zealanders with full coverage of the day’s national and international events.

What do you think?

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I’ll go with Option 2 thanks Paddy.

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@LiamP Just given Option 2 a bit of an update. Here’s how the “Plus News at Six” format works.

The first half of the 6-7pm bulletin begins with national and international news stories, followed by a brief weather update. The second half, from around 6.30pm, includes a recap on the main news headlines for the day, further development and background on the main stories and news-related features covering the main talking points and issues of the moment. At the conclusion of the bulletin, a complete weather forecast is presented.

On Saturdays, a review of the week’s entertainment news is featured. And on Sundays, “Sunday’s World” is a current affairs segment that gives its viewers a special insight into a variety of topics that affect New Zealand, such as dubious schemes, business issues and inspirational people. Sometimes they are a deeper look at the major news headline of the week.

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Why not?

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Yeh OK mate - I get that - but you didn’t really answer my question.

Isn’t the latest sports coverage also part of the “day’s events”?

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@Leo_Puglisi6 Well, I’ll tell you.

In Canada, CTV Montreal had decided in 2017 to cancel its locally produced sports bulletins and lay off the entire sports department, which included long-time anchor Randy Tieman, reporter Brian Wilde and weekend anchor Sean Coleman.

Here’s a statement from Bell Media, which owns the CTV Television Network with 22 owned-and-operated stations and two affiliate stations right throughout Canada. “We can confirm we’ve made an editorial decision to transition sports coverage from sportscasters to news anchors in response to evolving viewer behaviour. As a result, three positions have been impacted at CTV Montreal. Our viewers can continue to rely on CTV News to keep them informed about local and professional sports.”

And that’s why the Montreal-based CTV News team covered sport as part of its overall news coverage, with no separate sports bulletin.

Paul Karwatsky, a news anchor at CTV Montreal, broke the news to viewers during its 6pm bulletin on the evening of Tuesday 20 June 2017:

“Welcome back. Now a note to share with you tonight about our newscast and how we’ll be covering sports from now on. We’ll still be reporting on the sports beat with stories from Montreal and beyond. But we’ll now be doing it as part of our overall news coverage, in other words we’ll no longer have a separate sportscast. This was announced today and this also means very, very unfortunately that Randy Tieman, Brian Wilde and Sean Coleman are no longer with CTV. We want to thank them of course for their dedication and their excellent contribution to this station and this community that will of course be very sorely missed.”

Along with weather presenter Lori Graham, they also paid tribute to their departed colleagues at the end of the bulletin.

Paul:
I guess we should address it, it hasn’t been an amazing day here at CTV Montreal. In fact all across the network sportscasts have been cancelled and that means unfortunately, very unfortunately we’re losing Randy, Brian and Sean. And we just wanted to take some time to tell you guys how much you’ll be missed.

Lori:
That’s right. We’d like to definitely honour our colleagues, Randy Tieman, Brian Wilde and Sean Coleman. Not only were they great to work with, but they are really great guys, and we’re definitely going to miss your talent, we’re going to miss your wit and your humour and we wish you all the best.

Paul:
In the meantime we’ll carry on and we hope you continue tuning in.

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Yes, mate @Leo_Puglisi6 was saying that you would not even have a sports segment, not that you wouldn’t have a sports bulletin.

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@foxyrover Over on my dream network, I have sports segments as part of the PTV News bulletins.

On “PTV News Today” I have Ollie Ritchie (from Newshub, in real life), presenting regular updates on overnight sports news. And during the evenings, I have Andrew Gourdie (from Newshub) and Jeff McTainsh (from Sky Sport) sharing the role of sports anchor and sitting next to Daniel Faitaua (from TVNZ) on weeknights and Tom McRae (from Newshub) on weekends. Ravinder Hunia (from Sky Sport) is also on board as an additional sports anchor.

And of course, my network has a commitment to sport. Its Saturday sports show, “Sportsworld” (to be sponsored by Bunnings Warehouse and renamed “Bunnings Sportsworld” as part of a naming rights agreeement), has the latest news and results from all sports and a special service for racing fans.

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Thanks Paddy, that’s enough.

Also, why did you change how the option worked once I’d already decided on it? That’s not how it works.

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My brain is overloaded. The reason why I had to change is to give you an update on how Option 2 looks like. But you’re right. It didn’t work. I have apologised.

And for one last time, @LiamP - you’re more than welcome.

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*checks thread title *

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