@LiamP In real life, Sky has the NRL rights.
I created PTV Network New Zealand as a fictional broadcaster which incorporates the best of MediaWorks TV (now Discovery New Zealand) and Sky. It’s like transforming the power of both Discovery and Sky into a combined organisation.
In particular, the team from Newshub (through Discovery) are specialists in news and current affairs and Sky are specialists in televised sport and sports content.
Yes. Along with live AFL, I have here some details in regard to sport on PTV4:
Rugby
PTV4 would be committed to full rugby replays during the week, as well as delayed coverage of a Saturday night Super Rugby Aotearoa game (at 8.30pm). During the Mitre 10 Cup season, PTV4 would show two hours of same-day match highlights in primetime, i.e. Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm.
“Rugby at Noon” is a two-hour package of domestic and international rugby action, including recorded highlights of the previous day’s Land Rover 1st XV, Heartland Championship and club rugby matches from around New Zealand. It would screen Sundays at 12pm (as the title suggests).
“Full Time” is similar in format to The Breakdown from Sky Television (in real life). Screening Tuesday nights at around 10.30pm, Full Time combined a review of the weekend’s rugby with panel discussions and a bit of banter.
PTV4 would also feature full coverage of international rugby tournaments like Europe’s Premiership Rugby, Guinness Pro 14, Six Nations and Autumn Nations Cup.
Rugby League
PTV4 would screen delayed coverage of the NRL except Friday’s, which would be shown over on PTV1. The three NRL matches would go to air Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights (at around 10.30pm).
“PTV’s Big League” is an hour-long package of highlights from the previous weekend’s NRL and Super League games, plus profiles of top players. It would screen Monday nights (straight after PTV4’s “action movie” slot from 8.30pm).
PTV4 would also screen delayed coverage of two Super League matches every Friday (at 3pm) and Saturday (at 12pm) with highlights from the latest round as part of PTV’s Big League.
Motorsport
Petrolheads would find thrills and spills galore by checking out a truly dedicated show called “Speed Machine”.
Screening Wednesday nights (at 10.30pm), Speed Machine is a weekly roundup of world-class motorsport action. This includes the NASCAR and IndyCar Series (featuring New Zealanders Scott Dixon and Scott McLaughlin), LeMans, British Superbikes, Porsche Race, Touring Cars, Formula Ford, FIM, Rally du Maroc, the Dakar Rally and the Supercars Championship.
PTV4 would show live coverage of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 (direct from Mt Panorama) and ITM Auckland SuperSprint races.
Golf
PTV4 would show highlights of the PGA, the LPGA and the European Tour, as well as live coverage of four major golf tournaments from around the world: the Masters, the US PGA Championship, the US Open and the British Open.
Football
PTV4 has a commitment to the ‘beautiful game’ - football from around the world. There’s the FA Cup, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1, Bundesliga and English Football League, with live coverage of a Bundesliga match every Saturday morning (NZ time).
Tennis
PTV4 has a commitment to the ASB Classic, the Spanish Open and the Grand Slam tennis tournaments: the US Open, Roland-Garros, Wimbledon and the Australian Open.
Tour de France
PTV4 has daily highlights of the Tour de France, an annual men’s multiple stage bicycle race when it comes to cycling.
Mobil Sport
Hosted by Andrew Gourdie, the new look Mobil Sport is a magazine-style sports programme featuring local and international sporting action. Regular items include sports reports from Wairangi Koopu, Josh Kronfeld, Storm Purvis and Anna Willcox; the “all American sports roundup” (the NBA, WNBA, NFL, NHL, Major League Soccer, US College Sports etc); UFC highlights; and the “sin bin” with Jim Kayes. The new Mobil Sport would go to air Wednesdays at 8.30pm and run for two hours.
Horse Racing
PTV4 (in partnership with TAB New Zealand) would show live coverage of all races from one race meeting every Saturday afternoon, and one harness meeting (from Alexandra Park in Auckland or Addington Raceway in Christchurch) on Friday night.
PTV1, however, would play host to the iconic Melbourne Cup and some of the best horse racing events from around the country: the New Zealand Trotting Cup, New Zealand Galloping Cup, Wellington Cup, Karaka Million, Waikato Sprint, Auckland Cup, Harness Jewels, 2000 Guineas, Easter Handicap and the Great Northern Steeplechase. Selected Saturday races from another meeting would be featured on “Sportsworld” via PTV1.
“The First Call” is the ‘curtain raiser’ for Saturday’s racing in New Zealand and would go to air Saturday mornings from 10-11am.
Olympic and Commonwealth Games
For the bigger events in PTV Network’s sporting calendar - such as the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris - PTV4 would support PTV1’s own coverage by offering viewers coverage of alternative sports and events.
I describe PTV4 as a combined general entertainment and sport channel targeting 25-54 year olds with a male skew. It would feature a combination of premium free-to-air sports coverage, premium factual and scripted programmes and ‘action movies that really pack a punch’.
I am also not forgetting about fans of netball, one of New Zealand’s highest profile sports.
PTV5 - a combined general entertainment and lifestyle channel targeting 25-54 year olds with a female skew - would be established itself as ‘the home of free-to-air netball’.
Netball is a sport that is played predominantly by women and because of PTV5’s target audience, the channel would screen every match from the Silver Ferns and the ANZ Premiership ‘live and free’, plus selected matches and highlights from the Beko Netball League, Fuji Xerox NZ Secondary Schools Tournament, U18 Netball Champs and Open Champs.
In real life, Sky has the rights to netball, according to @LiamP
What do you think of netball on PTV5 - the home of guilty pleasures (e.g. The Real Housewives, Vanderpump Rules, The Bachelor/Bachelorette USA etc), glamour (e.g. Keeping Up with the Kardashians), fame (e.g. Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry), true crime (e.g. Snapped), movies from the Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) and ‘chick flicks’ such as The Devil Wears Prada? It’s made exclusively for women (as opposed to PTV4, a channel made exclusively for men).
So PTV5 is basically a mix of Bravo, E! and the reality shows of MTV with a little bit of Sky Movies Extra and Sky Sport 4(? Is that the channel the netball’s on now?) thrown in there for good measure.
Okay, I’m sold.
That’s right, @LiamP. I describe PTV5 as a combination of entertainment, factual, lifestyle and reality programming, including the best of both E! and Bravo, to target 25-54 year olds with a female skew. Some MTV reality shows, like the Teen Mom franchise and Catfish: The TV Show, are featured on PTV2 due to its youthful audience (i.e. all people aged 18-39). And because PTV5 is a female-skewed channel, its entertainment offering is supplemented with free-to-air netball to cater for the channel’s female audience.
And you got it wrong, though. Sky Sport 3, in real life, is ‘the home of netball’ while rugby league is strongly featured on Sky Sport 4.
Yeah, Sky Sport’s a bit confusing now with each channel being a different sport. Thanks for the clarification though.
@LiamP You’re more than welcome, pal (as always)!
@AK_NEWS @LiamP @OnAir Here are the snapshots of Sky Television’s real-life headquarters at 10 Panorama Road in Mt Wellington, Auckland.
Sky fully owns the two hectare (five acre) site which contains buildings with a gross floor area of nearly 7,000m² (75,000 sq/ft). If PTV Network, as a fictional broadcaster, becomes a reality, this site would become bigger and better than ever.
It would contain a specially designed PTV News and Current Affairs studio (i.e. the same studio as Sky Sport, ‘the home of sport’) with control room, a fully refurbished and state-of-the-art newsroom, a News Exchange area, a graphics suite, a graphics apparatus room and a central technical area. Sales offices and administration offices would also be based here.
It is intended that PTV Network’s news and current affairs programmes would be produced live to air from the network’s Mt Wellington headquarters, and fed via satellite or fibre to the network’s operations hub at Stanley Street (i.e. the real-life NEP/TAB Trackside facility), where the Master Control Room is located for all national and regional feeds to be controlled. Programme schedule, advertisement output, feed switching and national transmission output would be delivered at Stanley Street, and all PTV Network owned and operated (O&O) studios - including Hamilton, Tauranga, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin - would have their live signals relayed there.
Nice.
Will you Share the space with Sky?
No. PTV Network’s news and current affairs programmes (i.e. PTV News Today, PTV Midday News, PTV Afternoon News, PTV National News, A Current Affair and Nightline) would be produced in the same studio as Sky Sport (using the same studio set, control room and cameras with a few adjustments), and we will not be sharing the space with Sky.
But Sky Sport and its dedicated sports shows will continue to be seen under the banner of PTV Sport, and produced in their new studios at Stanley Street (i.e. the real-life NEP/TAB Trackside facility). Because the Waikato region plays host to the thoroughbred racing industry, TAB Trackside will move to PTV Network’s brand new owned and operated (O&O) studios in Hamilton - the home of PTV Local News for viewers in the Waikato.
For PTV Sport+, it will largely follow the same pattern as Sky Sport Now (in real life).
PTV Network is like transforming the power of Discovery and Sky into a combined organisation. As mentioned before the team from Newshub (through Discovery) are specialists in news and current affairs and Sky are specialists in sports content.
You should make this into an actual channel
Thank you for your suggestion, @AK_NEWS, but I have a family of 7 channels (PTV1, PTV2, PTV3, PTV4, PTV5, PTV6 and CPTV) compared to your network (especially @LiamP’s) with only one channel each!
WTV is hoping to create WTVTWO And WTVTHREE
Here’s a recap. I have 7 channels and WTV has 3 channels (WTV1, WTV2 and WTV3), but what sort of programmes will be on each of them? And what about Plus Television, anyway?
I dont run Plus, youll have to talk to @LiamP
I think @AK_NEWS was suggesting your ideas are good enough to make it into a channel in real life, it was a compliment.
Take a breather, people here are supporting your ideas and mock TV channel and some of your responses are coming across as a little rude mate.
@killy06 Thanks very much, pal. To all the team from Media Spy, I would like to take a moment to say, “People from all over the world, including New Zealand and Australia, create their dream television networks. These are fictional broadcasters and will NOT broadcast to anywhere in the world, as they are fictitious and imaginary.”
And I would like to thank you all for your loyalty and your support. In future, I will continue writing posts in response to my own dream network (PTV Network New Zealand) and will contribute to my ‘competitors’ like Plus Television (created by @LiamP), although they are fictional.
I appreciate your kind words but may all dreams and wishes come true.
From your pal, Patrick Te Pou (Paddy)
PTV Network (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises Ltd), Plus (Plus Television New Zealand Ltd) and WTV (Western Television New Zealand Ltd) are all privately owned and operated, and funded by advertising. But what if the Broadcasting Minister, Kris Faafoi, decides to merge both RNZ and TVNZ into the new look NZBC as a single, state-owned broadcasting corporation?
There are no plans in real life. Last year, the idea of merging RNZ and TVNZ was shelved earlier this year because of Covid-19. A draft plan published by PwC New Zealand for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage talked about the vulnerability of the sector if the status quo was to continue.
The original NZBC (New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation) did exist from 1962 until it was divided into three separate corporations in 1975.
@killy06 @Mullet I need your help. I was facing criticism for hiring attractive women (i.e. former beauty queens) as weather presenters and using members of the New Zealand pinup community as ‘test card girls’ - similar to Test Card F - during closedown. Test Card F (below) was created by the BBC and used on television in Britain and throughout the rest of the world for more than four decades.
PTV Network New Zealand (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises Ltd) is made up of a family of 7 free-to-air channels (PTV1, PTV2, PTV3, PTV4, PTV5, PTV6 and CPTV) and I intend to make each channel broadcasting 7 days a week - morning, afternoon, evening (i.e. from the start of transmission until closedown each day).
I have taken a breather as people at Media Spy are supporting my ideas and PTV Network as a fictional broadcaster. Once again, I would like to thank all of you for your loyalty and your support. 
From your pal, Patrick Te Pou (Paddy)
Dedicated to @theGradyConnell, @Leo_Puglisi6, @nztv and @OnAir.
