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Anyone hoping to get Sky HD on the cheap through the satcaster’s new Igloo venture with TVNZ will have to wait until hell freezes over. The flexible new “pre-pay” DTT service, a kind of Freeview|HD Plus, will combine free-to-air content with 11 of Sky’s basic channels for about $25 a month. They are Comedy Central, [...]

TVNZ programming chief Jane Wilson will leave TVNZ on Thursday, a week after resigning. “Jane Wilson has informed us today that she has made a decision to leave TVNZ to advance her career and expand her experience beyond the TVNZ business after eight successful years predominantly in programming,” chief executive Rick Ellis told senior staff [...]

TVNZ may be surrounding viewers with more HD shows on TV One and TV2 but none is airing in surround sound. That’s the standard for HD transmissions on TV3 and Sky but TVNZ says it may be mid-year before it’s broadcasting in 5.1. “Although we have the capability to provide 5.1, it does require an [...]

On the eve of TVNZ unveiling its 2011 schedules, the broadcaster has confirmed it will be fully HD capable within the next two months. “With complex installations such as these, it is always difficult to pin down an exact day and time but we aim to be fully launched by the end of this year,” [...]

Does CASPA stand a ghost of a chance against Sky TV? TVNZ thinks so – that’s why it invested $8 million in 33% of Hybrid Television Services, the licensee of TiVo in NZ and Australia. Hybrid has used the belated launch of TiVo in this part of the world – a decade after it revolutionised [...]

It won’t be in 3D, as in other territories, but at least some of TVNZ’s FIFA World Cup coverage will be in HD. Strangely, the broadcaster made no mention of this when announcing it would provide “the most comprehensive multi-platform coverage of an event in its history” for the June 11-July 11 competition. TV One [...]