hdinsider: That would be fantastic, but would be totally out of character with TVNZ's commitment to supporting freeview. I believe that Sky pay for that channel exclusively. The contract wouldn't allow for it to go free to air. I would expect heartland to be a selling point for the Igloo platform.

So... Taxpayer funded tv history is only available via pay tv. Bring back the charter!

hdinsider: All that historic NZ content (country calendar and it's in the bag, etc) should be free for access for all NZers. So maybe a channel should be setup with the same content in competition with Heartland and on Freeview by another Broadcaster. That would scare TVNZ.

joshhill96: Confirmed: TVNZ has advised Freeview NZ that something will be replacing TVNZ 7 in June, but they dont know what with as of yet.

mattwnz:

hdinsider: That would be fantastic, but would be totally out of character with TVNZ's commitment to supporting freeview. I believe that Sky pay for that channel exclusively. The contract wouldn't allow for it to go free to air. I would expect heartland to be a selling point for the Igloo platform.

So... Taxpayer funded tv history is only available via pay tv. Bring back the charter!

I don't know how they got away with putting taxpayer funded tv exclusively onto a paytv network. I wonder if someone wanted to setup a new freeview channel with that content, whether they would be allowed to use it, eg. who actually owns that content? i would expect that it would be NZ taxpayer owned.

mattwnz:

hdinsider: That would be fantastic, but would be totally out of character with TVNZ's commitment to supporting freeview. I believe that Sky pay for that channel exclusively. The contract wouldn't allow for it to go free to air. I would expect heartland to be a selling point for the Igloo platform.

So... Taxpayer funded tv history is only available via pay tv. Bring back the charter!

I don't know how they got away with putting taxpayer funded tv exclusively onto a paytv network. I wonder if someone wanted to setup a new freeview channel with that content, whether they would be allowed to use it, eg. who actually owns that content? i would expect that it would be NZ taxpayer owned.

goodiesguy: Is there any chance in the future that Freeview will get TVNZ Heartland if they are shutting down TVNZ 7?

 
Only if TVNZ felt that putting out this way with an advertising-supported revenue stream would be both:
- commercially viable; and
- a better commercial proposition that what they can extract from Sky

Personally, I don't have any problem with TVNZ (which is struggling a bit, profitable but not a greatly so) making some extra cash by charging Sky to rebroadcast old material that would likely otherwise just moulder in a vault. I doubt there is a viable proposition to put it out using a free-to-air model instead. Personally, I virtually never watch it.

ronw: Just be grateful we are not like BBC who have to pay Murdoch's B-Sky-B for the?privilege?of putting BBC channels ?on the air. ?At that same time being stopped by Governments from having their own satellite system
I guess we will get same idea here before long.

As for a replacement of TV7 last I heard from Herald it was going to be a 24 hour shopping channel

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Only if TVNZ felt that putting out this way with an advertising-supported revenue stream would be both:
- commercially viable; and
- a better commercial proposition that what they can extract from Sky

Personally, I don't have any problem with TVNZ (which is struggling a bit, profitable but not a greatly so) making some extra cash by charging Sky to rebroadcast old material that would likely otherwise just moulder in a vault. I doubt there is a viable proposition to put it out using a free-to-air model instead. Personally, I virtually never watch it.

ronw: Just be grateful we are not like BBC who have to pay Murdoch's B-Sky-B for the privilege of putting BBC channels  on the air.  At that same time being stopped by Governments from having their own satellite system
I guess we will get same idea here before long.

As for a replacement of TV7 last I heard from Herald it was going to be a 24 hour shopping channel

nitrotech:

ronw: Just be grateful we are not like BBC who have to pay Murdoch's B-Sky-B for the privilege of putting BBC channels  on the air.  At that same time being stopped by Governments from having their own satellite system
I guess we will get same idea here before long.

As for a replacement of TV7 last I heard from Herald it was going to be a 24 hour shopping channel

TVNZ are also paying Sky to be on their system.

The govenment stopped TVNZ from starting their own satellite network when sky satellite was relatively young - there were millions already invested and plans were well advanced but the govenment of the time stopped it.