[mythtvnz] TVNZ imaginatively names new channels

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, June 13, 2007 3:12 pm, Steven Ellis wrote:
>
> 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=3D10=
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>>> 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 g=
o
> when they launch on Terrestrial next year :)
>
> I'm sure Canwest will want one of 8 or 9.

Weren't there going to originally be 18 channels reserved? I guess someon=
e
has to be No. 18 :-)

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Nick Rout