Fiktiv New Zealand - Sky Network Television

Sky Network Television Limited is a New Zealand pay television company that provides satellite television and media streaming services. It is also a wholesale channel provider to New Zealand IPTV provider Vodafone. As at 20 April 2020, Sky had 1,000,391 subscribers consisting of 585,815 satellite subscribers and 414,576 streaming subscribers.  The company is a joint venture established between News Corp and Stuff, with News Corp being the 44% and Stuff the 56% shareholders respectively.

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Prime is a New Zealand free-to-air television network. It airs a varied mix of programming, largely imported from Australia, the UK and the United States, as well as free-to-air rugby union, A-League soccer, and cricket matches.

It was originally owned by Prime Television Limited in Australia. Prime later entered into a joint-venture agreement with Nine Entertainment Co. (Nine Network Australia), causing the network's graphics to look like Nine Network. On 8 February 2006, the Commerce Commission gave Sky Network Television clearance to purchase the station for NZ$31 million.

It is currently available free-to-air on Sky on satellite and Kordia on terrestrial. Vodafone also carry the channel for their cable subscribers.

During early 1998, the United Christian Broadcasters purchased 34 TV licences of UHF spectrum from TVNZ that had been used for the defunct Horizon Pacific and MTV channels. Then during June 1998, Prime Television Limited in Australia purchased the unused 34 TV licences from United Christian Broadcasters for approximately A$3.6 million. The licences covered all major cities and towns, mainly on UHF, except for the Gisborne area, which is served via a VHF signal. On 30 August 1998, Prime Television New Zealand began broadcasting at 6.30 pm with Two Fat Ladies.

Prime's current line-up includes a mixture of local shows, news, sport and international shows.

Prime has access to a large selection of sports content that Sky broadcasts, this content is typically delayed with some live coverage of certain events to fulfill free-to-air requirements, as Sky is effectively selling them to itself. Prime has the free-to-air rights to cricket and rugby union, meaning Prime's schedule includes delayed coverage of Super Rugby games, All Black tests and Black Caps cricket matches.

From launch Prime broadcast local newscasts in Christchurch and Hamilton on weeknights at 5:30pm. Christchurch's bulletin was anchored by Vanessa Rawson. Both bulletins ran for half and hour, but due to intense competition for local news in Christchurch and a lack of viewership, both bulletins were cancelled. Prime launched a nightly news bulletin – branded as Prime News – First at 5:30 in 2004. Unlike their early foray into local news, the new bulletins were screened nationwide and as a result, held a stronger national focus.

Prime airs a nightly news bulletin — Prime News - First at 5:30. The programme was launched in February 2004 and is presented on weeknights by Eric Young and on weekends by Alistair Wilkinson.

The programme was initially presented on weeknights by former Getaway (TVNZ version) presenter and ABC (US) reporter Suzy Clarkson (née Aiken until 2006) and was produced in Sydney by Sky News Australia, using the resources of Sky News Australia and Newstalk ZB.

In March 2006, the production of the show was moved to its studios in Albany, Auckland, along with the introduction of more local content and a new weekday presenter, former TV3 and TVNZ presenter Eric Young.

Prime News - First at 5:30 currently uses the same graphics and music as Sky News, also owned by News Corp. Political coverage is headed by Newstalk ZB political editor Barry Soper, along with several other Wellington-based reporters. There are no full-time South Island based reporters for Prime News. A reduction in Australian-focused stories has been evident since the move to Auckland.

Prime News is affiliated with other news agencies owned by News Corp, including Sky News and Fox News Channel.

In 2006 Prime TV relaunched Prime News - First at 5:30, moving production of the show to its studios in Auckland. This included more local content and a new weekday presenter, former TVNZ presenter Eric Young.

The bulletin is usually divided into three segments, that is Segment 1 "News", Segment 2 "Business and Sport (Business on weekdays only)" and Segment 3 "Weather".

During the overnight hours, Prime simulcasts the American news channel Fox News.

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Sky 5 is a television channel in New Zealand available to customers of Sky and Vodafone TV. The channel was started in December 1994 as Orange on Sky UHF pre-set channel 7. Orange broadcast between 10am and around 11:30pm and during 1995 Juice TV began broadcasting overnight when Orange went off the air. In 1997, Cartoon Network began broadcasting between 6am and 4pm while Orange was not broadcasting.

Orange changed its name to Sky 1 in 1998 and the channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day when the Sky Digital service was launched however the UHF channel continued to screen Cartoon Network during the day time and in 2000 this was replaced with Nickelodeon.

Sky 1 relaunched on 1 February 2008 and in the process its name was changed to The Box. On 2 February 2018, 10 years after the channel relaunched as The Box, it rebranded for the third time in its history, as Sky 5.

The channel's shows are a variety of international shows, for example CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Simpsons, WWE, The Flash, Supergirl, Arrow, Tour of Duty, Hardcore Pawn and Pawn Stars.

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Vibe is an entertainment channel available to customers of Sky and Vodafone TV. The channel lanuched on 1 October 2007.

Launched as a basic tier channel, it was moved up a pay tier to the Entertainment Package in February 2018. The channel has a target demographic of all 25–54, with a female skew. Programming includes drama, factual and reality entertainment from the United States, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The channel does not directly commission local series, but plays New Zealand on Air funded titles including The Brokenwood Mysteries, which premieres on Sky-owned free-to-air channel Prime.

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Jones! is an entertainment channel available to customers of Sky and Vodafone TV. The channel lanuched on 13 May 2013. It shows classic back catalogue of US and UK programming.

The US content is sourced from the CBS Studios International catalogue as part of the exclusive contract deal with Sky for the first-run shows on Prime. The UK content is sourced from both BBC Worldwide and ITV Studios.

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Jones! Too is an entertainment channel available to customers of Sky and Vodafone TV. The channel lanuched on 1 July 2017.

Jones! Too offers a nostalgic viewing experience and the opportunity to handpick from a wide selection of iconic television content from perennial 80s favourites The Golden Girls, Moonlighting and The Greatest American Hero to 70s hit One Day at a Time.

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Sky Box Sets is a channel available to customers of Sky and Vodafone TV. It was launched on 1 August 2017. The channel screens an entire season of a television series at 7:30pm every night.

The channel screens drama and comedy series such as Bellevue, American Gothic, Mary Kills People, Jane the Virgin, Fortitude, 11.22.63 and Outcast.

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SoHo is a premium entertainment channel in New Zealand available on Sky and Vodafone TV. The channel lanuched on 31 October 2011.

The channel mainly broadcasts popular shows from American cable networks Showtime, AMC, Starz, HBO, FX, and its sister channel Cinemax, which are themselves not available in New Zealand. It also broadcasts shows from Britain, especially from the BBC, and also broadcasts films.

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SoHo2 is a premium entertainment channel in New Zealand available on Sky and Vodafone TV. The channel lanuched on 7 November 2018.

SoHo2 brings SoHo viewers more of what you love – the best in drama, comedies, films, documentaries and mini-series from incredible writers, directors and actors.

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Sky Arts is a premium arts channel in New Zealand available on Sky and Vodafone TV. The channel lanuched on 7 November 2018.

Sky Arts provides the best arts and cultural television from New Zealand and around the world. Sky Arts is proud to support New Zealand Arts, so look out for more home grown arts programmes made by local artists and filmmakers.

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Sky Movies is a group of subscription television movie channels in New Zealand operated by satellite pay-TV company, Sky. Sky Movies was started in 1990 as one of the original channels on the Sky UHF Service. Sky Movies has progressed from the original channel (now known as Sky Movies Premiere) in 1990 to nine separate movie channels screening special interest movies.

Sky Movies consists of 9 themed channels, all with a HD simulcast.

Sky Movies channels:
Sky Movies Premiere: Sky's original movie channel in New Zealand. Sky Movies Premiere plays a schedule of movies back to back 24 hours a day. This schedule is updated each month. New movies are added weekly with the Blockbuster Premiere on Sunday nights and the Thursday Premiere on Thursday nights. The range of movies includes bona fide blockbusters, comedies, action titles, dramas, thrillers, science-fiction, horrors, westerns, romances, festival cinema and family features.
Sky Movies Extra: Sky's second movie channel. Sky Movies Extra screens drama, romance and thriller movies.
Sky Movies Action: The channel that was introduced in 2013. The channel screens action films.
Sky Movies Greats: Sky's third movie channel which was launched in 2007. It screens a collection of modern classic movies.
Sky Movies Classics: Lanuched on 1 June 2013 replacing the MGM Channel which began on 3 June 2001. The channel screens classic films from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. It screens an array of films from the MGM library and movies from other studios too.
Sky Movies Vintage: Launched on 1 December 2018 replacing TCM. The channel plays classic movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Movies screened are from the 1940s to mid 1970s.
Sky Movies Family: Launched as a 24/7 channel on 1 November 2019. The channel plays family orientated films. Previously, the channel was a pop-up channel only broadcasting during the school holidays.
Sky Movies Disney: Launched on 1 July 2015. The channel airs a mix of classic and premiere animated and live-action family films from Disney.

Additional Sky Movies Pop-Up channels are frequently broadcast for a certain period with certain themes. Some that have been broadcast in the past include Clint Eastwood, Star Wars, Christmas and Harry Potter Pop-Up channels.

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Sky Sport is a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by New Zealand's satellite pay-TV company, Sky.

Sky Sport 1 is the original Sky Television sport channel in New Zealand. It was first introduced in 1990 as Sky Sport on the Sky UHF service. A sister channel, Sky Sport 2 was launched in 1997 when Sky introduced a nationwide analogue direct broadcasting via satellite (DBS) service, followed by a third channel, Sky Sport 3 in 2003 and Sky Sport 4 in 2013.

On 1 August 2019, Sky launched five more Sky Sport channels, numbered from 5 to 9. Additionally all the channels were be re-aligned to be sport-specific, and a Sky Sport News channel was be launched providing the latest news and updates from across all sports.

Ten main channels comprise the Sky Sport service:
Sky Sport 1: 24/7 rugby union coverage.
Sky Sport 2: 24/7 cricket coverage.
Sky Sport 3: Netball coverage and a mix of other sports.
Sky Sport 4: Rugby league coverage and a mix of other sports.
Sky Sport 5: Motorsport coverage and a mix of other sports.
Sky Sport 6: 24/7 golf coverage.
Sky Sport 7: 24/7 association football coverage.
Sky Sport 8: General sport coverage.
Sky Sport 9: General sport coverage.
Sky Sport News: Provides the latest sport news and updates.

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Sky News New Zealand is the New Zealand version of Sky News Australia which carries the NZ branding. The channel is owned by New Zealand News Channel which is jointly owned by Sky Network Television and Australian News Channel. The channel is available on Sky Television and Vodafone.

The program line-up is nearly identical to that of Sky News Australia, except for a a small amount of NZ-specific content.

Local programming on Sky News New Zealand includes:
- A nightly replay of Prime's Prime News 5:30pm news bulletin at 7:00pm.
- Coverage of Question Time from the New Zealand House of Representatives.
- Nightly local news headlines from Prime News in between Sky News Australia programs.
- A weekly current affairs programme called Up Front, hosted by Newstalk ZB radio host Mike Hosking.
- New Zealand News Week every Saturday and repeated on Sunday.

Sky News in New Zealand does not include the 'active' services available in Australia.

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Sky Box Office is a group of four movie pay-per-view channels operated in New Zealand by Sky Network Television's. Films currently premiere on Sky Box Office a few months after their release. The channel use to operate PPV live sporting event, before Sky Arena were created.

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Sky Arena is a pay-per-view channel operated in New Zealand by Sky Network Television. Until 2015 Sky Arena was also spin-off event promoter company jointly owned by Sky and VADR Media. Sky Arena shows professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, boxing and occasionally concerts.