[mythtvnz] TVNZ imaginatively names new channels

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, June 13, 2007 2:50 pm, David Zanetti wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:20 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=3D339&objectid=3D104=
45011
>>
>> TVNZ6 & TVNZ7
>>
>> Wow we are an imaginative bunch in NZ aren't we?
>
> I think it reflect that the market here hasn't matured enough to get
> away from a single numbersapce (eg, like the UK with BBC1-4 and ITV1-3
> etc), so they can't be seen to stomp on TV3 which all the Freeview
> lovin' by calling them TVNZ3 and TVNZ4.
>
> Even tho it makes more sense.
>
> And didn't stop Sky for Sky1.
>
> But anyway :)

Interesting that Freeview IDs 1-7 are now allocated. Where will Prime go
when they launch on Terrestrial next year :)

I'm sure Canwest will want one of 8 or 9.

Steve

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