Would this fit in with the format/target of each channel (i.e. Top 40 on Shake, oldies on GEM and rock on Turbo), or would it be randomised??
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@McMuffinMan17 Randomised, although pop videos (including chart hits and some old school throwbacks) will feature on Shake with easy listening videos (including classic clips from the 70s, 80s and 90s) on GEM and rock videos on Turbo. However, all rock videos need to be heavily censored and edited for daytime viewing with a PG classification, i.e. parental guidance recommended for younger viewers.
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What if my network had a weekly magazine for print - PTV View?
PTV View provides full, 7-day programme schedules for all 11 PTV Network channels - making it easy to see what you want to watch across the week. It also keeps us as New Zealanders entertained with exciting features on the latest PTV Network shows and movies, interviews with network stars and personality profiles.
You will also find a weekly highlights page before the weekâs listings, a daily highlights section on a coloured strip under the evening listings (for PTV, Shake and GEM), kidsâ puzzles, competitions and factsheets from PTV Networkâs lifestyle programmes, including recipes.
Nearly 80 pages for just $2.99 per issue and available in shops every Friday.
Six-month subscriptions (26 issues = $77.99), one-year subscriptions (52 issues = $155.99) and two-year subscriptions (104 issues = $311.99) to PTV View will be available.
DISCLAIMER: PTV Network New Zealand (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises 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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FIELDAYS ON PTV NETWORK
PTV Network New Zealand today announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with the New Zealand National Fieldays Society and this yearâs Fieldays will be televised live on PTV Networkâs âGeneral Entertainment and Movieâ channel, GEM, from 30 November to 3 December 2022.
Live from the Southern Hemisphereâs largest agricultural event at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton, Hamish McKay (Rural Exchange) and Sally Murphy (RNZ) will lead a team of reporters - including Dominic George (REX Today), Thomas Mead (TVNZ) and Kim Moodie (RNZ) - in a four-part series of two-hour specials featuring whatâs new in the world for the agriculturist and horticulturist.
Each two-hour special will run on GEM from midday until 2pm.
Sunrise (Mon-Fri, 6-8.30am) on PTV will feature live crosses to Fieldays throughout, with Chris Kirk presenting the weather from there.
Comedy duo Jono and Ben will deliver their humorous take on Fieldays in a new Jono and Ben special on Shake, which will be shown on Saturday 3 December at 8.30pm.
PTV Pop Up, on Freeview channel 13, will carry live Fieldays coverage from 8am-5pm on Wednesday (30 Nov), Thursday (1 Dec) and Friday (2 Dec), and 8am-4pm on Saturday (3 Dec). The two-hour specials, as seen on GEM, will then be repeated on a loop until 11pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and 10pm on Saturday.
DISCLAIMER: PTV Network New Zealand (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises Ltd) is a fictional broadcaster and will not broadcast to New Zealand, as it is fictitious and imaginary. Channel 13 on Freeview, in real life, plays host to Three +1. Thank you for understanding.
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CAMPBELL LIVE ON PTV
@Michael_Eccles @LiamP @Kathryn_Milin What if John Campbell (who, in real life, is the national correspondent at TVNZ after leaving âBreakfastâ recently) had switched networks by jumping across to my dream network?
The all new version of Campbell Live - a nightly current affairs programme that, in real life, aired on TV3 (now Three) from 2005 to 2015 - promises a mix of hard-hitting investigations, studio interviews and feature stories, with a particular focus on topical events and issues from around New Zealand.
John Campbell will front the all new version and the Campbell Live team of reporters will include Anna Bracewell-Worrall (from Newshub), Hamish Cardwell (from RNZ), Michael Morrah (from Newshub), Ruwani Perera (from The Hui), Joy Reid (from TVNZ), Kaitlin Ruddock (from TVNZ), Louise Ternouth (from RNZ), Nick Truebridge (from RNZ) and Conor Whitten (from Newshub). Rebecca Wright (from Newshub) will be part of the team as a reporter and fill-in anchor.
Campbell Live will go to air weeknights at 6.30pm on PTV - right after the 6pm news which is being reduced from an hour to 30 minutes in duration - with a repeat screening on GEM at around midnight.
Further changes to PTV Networkâs News and Current Affairs programming will be confirmed in due course.
DISCLAIMER: PTV Network New Zealand (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises 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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SPRING SEASON ON PTV NETWORK
PTV Network New Zealand announced a new season of top quality programming which runs from August until Christmas.
First up, itâs Sunday night drama on Shake with La Brea (at 8.30pm), a 10-part series about one family (father, mother, son and daughter) who are separated by a massive sinkhole in the middle of Los Angeles and attempting to reunite; and The Endgame (at 9.30pm), a 10-part crime thriller with criminal mastermind Elena Federova (Morena Baccarin) squaring off against principled FBI agent Val Turner (Ryan Michelle BathĂ©). After 10 weeks Walker will move to Sunday nights at 8.30pm with brand new episodes and a prequel series, Walker: Independence, to follow at 9.30pm.
Shakeâs existing drama output includes All American, Coroner, The Flash, Kung Fu, Nancy Drew, Riverdale, Stargirl and Superman & Lois - most of which will return with brand new episodes later in the year, plus a new round of All American: Homecoming, a spinoff series from All American. Keep an eye out for new series like The Winchesters (a prequel to Supernatural which focuses on Sam and Deanâs parents, John and Mary), Gotham Knights (which centres on members of the Batman family and other DC Comics supporting characters) and the continuation of a cult classic, Quantum Leap.
There are some female-skewed dramas on the way, many of these will be shown on Viva from 8.30pm every Sunday night. Thereâs The Cleaning Lady, a US crime series based on the 2017 Argentinian series La chica que limpia, and The Kings of Napa, a new eight-part series which follows wealthy wine industry family after death of their father, Reginald King (Isiah Whitlock Jr). The continuation of All Rise, as seen on Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in the States, revolves around the personal lives of judges, prosecutors and public defenders in a Los Angeles courthouse and will be part of the new seasonâs lineup.
If cops and private eyes are your thing then thereâs plenty for you this season. On PTV, for instance, Law & Order: SVU will have brand new episodes screening Wednesday nights at 8.30pm and Law & Order: Organised Crime will move to its new night (at 9.30pm, following SVU). The Equalizer, with Queen Latifah in the title role, gets the shift to Thursdays at 8.30pm and there are new rounds of CSI: Vegas, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: Hawaiâi, FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, FBI: International, Law & Order, Magnum PI and S.W.A.T. across PTV and Turbo to keep you hooked. A new US series, East New York, follows a newly promoted deputy inspector of a working-class neighbourhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn and will be shown on PTV later this year.
All British soaps, except Hollyoaks (weekdays at 3.55pm, Shake), will stay on GEM. Coronation Street will âexpress from the UKâ, i.e. one week after it screens in Britain, and will continue to air at 7pm every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with next-day repeats at 2pm. EastEnders will move to Tuesday and Thursday primetime (8.30pm) and there will be repeats at 1.50pm the following week (Monday and Tuesday). Doctors gets to screen every weekday at 3pm with Emmerdale to follow at 3.35pm. (On Thursdays, Doctors does not air and an hour-long episode of Emmerdale will screen at 3pm.)
GEM will continue to be âthe home of British dramaâ, featuring new rounds of All Creatures Great and Small, The Bay, Call the Midwife, Casualty, Death in Paradise, Doc Martin, Father Brown, The Good Karma Hospital, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, Shetland, Silent Witness, Sister Boniface Mysteries and many more. Watch out for new series like Close to Me, Murder in Provence, Professor T, Ragdoll, Sherwood, Why Didnât They Ask Evans? and a new Irish crime drama, Redemption (from the producers of Grace and The Bay).
US sitcoms seem to be multiplying as we breathe, and they are well represented in the new seasonâs lineup. On PTV, for instance, Young Sheldon will have double episodes shown at 7.30pm every Thursday. When Wonder Dogs finishes, The Neighborhood will return to Mondays at 7.30pm with Bob Hearts Abishola to follow at 8pm. Then thereâs Call Me Kat (Fridays at 7.30pm, Shake), Ghosts (Fridays at 8pm, Shake; featuring New Zealandâs own Rose McIver) The Great North (Sundays at 7pm, Shake), Young Rock (Sundays at 7.30pm, Shake) and The Conners (Sundays at 8pm, Shake). Later this year Ghosts will move to Thursdays on PTV at 8pm (after Young Sheldon which will revert to single episodes) and a new series, Lopez vs. Lopez, will fill the Friday 8pm slot on Shake.
But what about fun and games? New rounds of Survivor, The Amazing Race and The Masked Singer USA will be part of the new seasonâs line-up, alongside Celebrity Catch Phrase UK, Celebrity Family Feud USA, The Chase USA, The Cube, Match Game (starring Alec Baldwin), Ready Steady Cook UK, Supermarket Sweep USA, The Weakest Link (US and UK) and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK). Not to mention Celebrity Jeopardy! and The Real Love Boat. Speaking of celebrity chat and the infamous âRed Chairâ game, The Graham Norton Show will be back and keeping us entertained on Saturday nights - though weâll be seeing it just a few hours after it screens in Britain.
Back home, there are lots and lots of local productions coming this season. Thereâs the welcome return of an old favourite, Wonder Dogs (Mondays at 7.30pm, PTV), but with Matty McLean rather than Mark Leishman as host. Thereâs also the remake of the music quiz, Face the Music (Tuesdays at 7.30pm, PTV), hosted by Clint Randell (ex-The Edge). Blankety Blank (Tuesdays at 8pm, PTV) is the Kiwi version of Match Game, featuring Rhys Mathewson as host and a rotating panel of celebrity guests, while Play Your Cards Right (Saturdays at 7pm, PTV) is the Kiwi Card Sharks with Ben Hurley (7 Days, Seven Sharp) hosting. Radio personality Megan Papas and comedian Tim Batt host Candid Camera on Aotearoa (Saturdays at 6.30pm, PTV) 30 minutes of hidden-camera mayhem, and thereâs Anita Wiglâit (RuPaulâs Drag Race Down Under) in her very own talk/variety show, The Anita Wiglâit Show (Thursdays at 9.30pm, PTV).
Over on Shake, journalist Patrick Gower will host the Kiwi version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Tuesdays at 9.30pm), the world-renowned improv comedy game show. Leigh Hart and Jason Hoyte follow as they rejoin forces to host the all new Late Night Big Breakfast (Tuesdays at 10pm), but with Mike Minogue (Wellington Paranormal) rather than Jeremy Wells on board as co-host.
Daytime television fans will notice a small change in programming. 50 Forward, a new weekday series for people over 50, has been added and will screen at 10am on PTV. Hosted by Mark Leishman and Jude Dobson, 50 Forward offers a variety of magazine-style features covering travel, health and retirement living. Whatâs Cooking?, the weekday culinary series with Mark Southon and Nici Wickes as hosts, will move to the new timeslot of 3.30pm.
Lookinâ Good (Wednesdays at 7.30pm, PTV) looks at clothing fashions from the past and present, previews fashions for the future and includes makeovers and tips on hair and makeup, while Really Living (Wednesdays at 8pm, PTV) is a series on health and lifestyle choices available in New Zealand, featuring reports on fitness, injury prevention and management and new developments in health. When both programmes finish, new rounds of Dulux Home Front and Getaway will screen in October. And on Friday nights, a new round of Palmers Garden Show (7.30pm on PTV) will be added.
At the other extreme, the sports department offers something totally new: English Premier League 2022/23. On Sundays at 12pm, Turbo will have full delayed coverage of one match from the latest round of the new EPL season and when the 2022 NRL season draws to a close, delayed coverage of an extra EPL match will take over from Wendyâs Monday Night League at around 10.35pm. There will be highlights during Chemist Warehouse Sports Arena on Tuesday night (Turbo) and again on Sunday mornings (7.30am on PTV), followed by a 10-minute results service (8.20am on PTV, 11.45am on Turbo) to keep football fans updated on score results for the EPL matches played overnight.
The Bunnings NPC season kicks off in August and PTV and Turbo will have full delayed coverage of four games played on Wednesday (8.30pm on Turbo), Friday (8.30pm on PTV), Saturday (4pm on PTV, during Bunnings Sportsworld) and Sunday (4pm on PTV, during Best Foods Sports Sunday). Turbo will have two hours of same-day highlights every Saturday (at 8.30pm) and every Sunday (at 6.30pm). The Bunnings NPC final will be televised live on PTV.
All sport will be spread across four channels (PTV, Shake, Turbo and Viva) and an additional three channels (under the banner of PTV Pop Up) when needed. The All Black tests (the Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship, the Bledisloe Cup and the All Blacks Northern Tour) will be live on PTV, with Viva screening the Black Ferns v Australia Women match.
News and current affairs programmes will receive a complete overhaul. PTV News at 6pm and PTV Late News (weeknights at approx 10.30pm) will reduce in duration to 30 minutes each and adopt a single head newsreader format, which is in line with the BBC, ITV and the major US networks, with PTV News at 8pm (weeknights at 8pm, GEM) being read by the same anchor for the 6pm bulletin that evening. PTV News at 11.30am, PTV News at 4.30pm and PTV Weekend News (6pm and approx 10.30pm on PTV, approx 8.30pm on GEM) will continue.
For the current affairs conscious, A Current Affair has gone and is replaced by a new version of the current affairs programme, Campbell Live. Fronted by experienced New Zealand broadcaster, John Campbell, the all new Campbell Live promises a mix of hard-hitting current affairs investigations, studio interviews and feature stories and will go to air weeknights at 6.30pm on PTV (right after the 6pm news), with a repeat at around midnight on GEM. 60 Minutes (Sundays at 7.30pm, PTV; repeats Mondays at 7pm, GEM), 60 Minutes: The Foreign Edition (Fridays at 7pm, GEM) and Face the Nation (Sundays at 10am, PTV) will continue.
For movie fans, Shake has two âbig feature movieâ slots on Wednesday and Friday nights (from 8.30pm) on Shake, plus a comedy movie on Saturday nights (from 9.30pm) and a late night horror movie on Sundays (from 11.30pm). Turboâs Monday night slot, from 8.30pm, is devoted to action movies due to the channelâs target audience, i.e. 25-54 year old males, and there are romantic movies on Friday nights via Viva (8.30pm). GEM will feature classic movies across the weekend - Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And blockbuster premieres, many of which screen on free-to-air television for the first time, will stay in its Sunday night slot (8.30pm) on PTV.
The aim for all 12 PTV Network channels is still total complementarity. Programme times should not overlap and programmes of similar appeal should not be screened against each other. This will largely be achieved, although film fans will be caught by a clash on Friday night which sees Vivaâs âFriday Night Romanceâ start at the same time as Shakeâs âFriday Featureâ - unless youâre watching both channels on a dedicated PTV Mosaic Channel!
@Michael_Eccles @LiamP @Kathryn_Milin @Biscuit45 @McMuffinMan17 @TBoy @fournews @TV3_NZ @greenpea What do you think of the spring seasonâs programming?
DISCLAIMER: PTV Network New Zealand (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises 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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Awesome man 
Love your attention to detail.
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Thank you, @greenpea. I hope youâll enjoy my dream, New Zealand-based television network if it becomes a reality!
Agreed, @PaddyTePou you have a really strong, vivid imagination. I just have a couple of questions:
Interesting choice to host a comedy show. What made you go for Patrick Gower, who to my understanding is a political journalist, as opposed to someone like, say, Jeremy Wells?
Didnât you make a big deal of poaching Mike and Sam from Newshub a couple of months back? What happened to that? Cutbacks? 
Anyway, keep up the good work! You have some great ideas.
Would this program start 01 August?
I tried my best poaching many of Newshubâs journalists, including those who are now at TVNZ (e.g. Sacha McNeil, Susie Nordqvist), but it may not work. So I had to revert to adopting a single head newsreader format, just like the BBC, ITV and the major US networks. Daniel Faitaua (who, in real life, is based in London as TVNZâs Europe correspondent) would be perfect by replacing the two-anchor format and bringing his journalism experience to the news desk as a sole anchor for the 6pm and 8pm bulletins, with Janika ter Ellen (from Newshub) reading the late news. There will be no cutbacks either.
I also had to reduce the length of my dream networkâs 6pm and late bulletins to half an hour each to align with the 8pm bulletin, so that viewers can get the option of watching the news at 6pm or updates at 8pm and around 10.30pm just in case they missed the 6pm bulletin.
A new current affairs programme with John Campbell (who, in real life, is TVNZâs national correspondent), unlike Seven Sharp or The Project (in real life), screens at 6.30pm (right after the 6pm bulletin). It gives viewers an in-depth look at the topical events and issues affecting us as New Zealanders, and promises a mix of investigations, interviews and feature stories. After John Campbell, viewers will be treated to a game show at 7pm; the all new Sale of the Century, for instance.
Itâs time for something slightly different by giving game shows a bit of a go; Whose Line Is It Anyway?, for instance. In order to lighten things up, Paddy Gower would be tipped to transition from a journalist to a game show host. Unfortunately, Jeremy Wells may be unavailable due to other commitments (e.g. Seven Sharp, Taskmaster NZ).
Those are the answers, @NuStraya, but thanks very much.
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Thank you for replying, Paddy, and for your very thorough explanation.
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I created two customised snapshots of the embedded video player as seen on the PTV+ app and website.
If PTV+ (part of PTV Network New Zealand as a fictional broadcaster) becomes a reality, people can live stream all 12 free-to-air channels or watch a huge variety of on-demand content (e.g. full episode catch-ups, express plays from the US and UK, drama/comedy/entertainment box sets, movies, documentaries, kids shows, web series and online-only extras) at any time.
The content on PTV+ is free and funded by commercial advertising but, unlike TVNZ+ (in real life), there are paid subscription services provided, such as PTV+ Premium (an advertising-free version of PTV+) and PTV Sport+ (a sport streaming service, similar to Sky Sport Now and Spark Sport).
It is intended that the monthly subscription cost for PTV+ Premium will be $19.99 and PTV Sport+, $29.99. Six-monthly subscriptions ($119.99 for PTV+ Premium, $179.99 for PTV Sport+; billed every six months) and annual subscriptions ($239.99 for PTV+ Premium, $359.99 for PTV Sport+; billed every 12 months) also available.
Live TV
While watching a live stream of a PTV Network channel, the image above shows you where the picture quality, audio, captioning, live pause/rewind and Chromecast functions are located.
Picture quality
Each live channel stream is presented in one of three picture quality types: SD 576p60 (in standard definition at 576p60 resolution), HD 720p60 (in high definition at 720p60 resolution) and HD 1080p60 (in full HD at 1080p60 resolution). In real life Freeviewâs UHF signal covers 86% of New Zealand homes. If you live where Freeview UHF is not available, HD programming can be found via live streaming on the PTV+ app and website. Mouse click on a designated picture quality symbol, then select either SD 576p60, HD 720p60 or HD 1080p60 within the pop-up menu.
Audio
Each live channel stream includes three audio options: English (default), Eng Alt (for alternative commentary during live sports events) and AD (for programmes with audio descriptions for the blind and vision-impaired). Mouse click on a designated audio symbol, then select either English, Eng Alt or AD within the pop-up menu to hear an audio of your choice. To switch back to default audio, simply select English.
Captions
Each live channel stream includes captioning for the deaf and hearing-impaired. Mouse click on the CC symbol, then select English within the pop-up menu to display captions (at the time of linear television transmission). To switch them off, select Captions off.
Live pause and rewind
Each live channel stream comes complete with a live pause function and a 4 hour rewind function. And the good thing is you donât need to have already been watching any one of the 12 PTV Network channels!
Chromecast
PTV+ is supported on Chromecast (including Chromecast 3rd Generation and Chromecast Ultra), a media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. Simply use your mobile device and the TV you already own to watch a live channel stream. Chromecast (which can be purchased from your local electrical store) works iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet. Look for the Cast icon at the bottom of the embedded video player.
On Demand
While watching on-demand content, the image above shows you where the captioning and Chromecast functions are located.
Captions
It is intended that up to 90% of the on-demand content will be captioned for the deaf and hearing-impaired. If an on-demand programme has captions, a CC symbol is shown at the bottom of the embedded video player. Mouse click on the CC symbol, then select English within the pop-up menu to display captions. To switch them off, select Captions off.
Chromecast
PTV+ is supported on Chromecast (including Chromecast 3rd Generation and Chromecast Ultra), a media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. Simply use your mobile device and the TV you already own to stream on-demand content. Chromecast (which can be purchased from your local electrical store) works iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet. Look for the Cast icon at the bottom of the embedded video player.
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I think the âiconâ could just say âHDâ or âSDâ (this bit
) and the selection menu just say âSDâ, âHD 720pâ and âHD 1080pâ. The viewer doesnât need to know nor cares about the frame rate. Or it could say âLowâ, âMediumâ âHighâ (then eventually âUltraâ, etc.).
This should say âLIVEâ in red if it is live, and go to white/grey when itâs not live, allowing the user to press the button and go to live. âOn-Airâ doesnât mean anything.
This could be in the sound menu (under the âEnglishâ tab), which would instead say âAudioâ or something and house all the other audio options (language, even subtitles customisation/language options).
Love the design otherwise Paddy, just trying to clean it up a bit 
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Thanks, @foxyrover - though 60 frames per second would be much better than just 30 frames, just like YouTube.
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Oh 100% agree Paddy keep it at 60 thatâs a great idea (I wish was implemented here in Aus!) - the user however doesnât need to it be on screen as such. Although how would that frame rate affect programs that are in a lower frame rate?
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Good question, @foxyrover! Viewing an on-demand programme in a lower frame rate (e.g. either 25 or 30 frames per second), to me, is like giving a film look (or filmizing).
It is a process in which video is altered in overall appearance to appear to have been shot on film stock. The process is usually electronic, although filmizing can sometimes occur as an unintentional by-product of some optical techniques, such as kinescope recording or telerecording. The effect is the exact opposite of a process called VidFIRE.
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I was referring to the live programming. Does NZ broadcast at 60 fps?