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Top Shelf to launch Choice TV in April

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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:22p.m.

Top Shelf Productions is the major shareholder behind the new channel

Top Shelf Productions is the major shareholder behind the new channel

A new free-to-air TV channel is to be launched in April, boasting a mixture of high quality local and international content.

Choice TV will run on the Freeview digital platform and aims to broadcast 24-hours a day, covering themes such as gardening, food, travel, adventure, health and fitness, comedy and drama.

Top Shelf Productions – the production company behind shows such as Target, What’s Really in Our…?, Media 7 and The Ad Show, is the major shareholder behind the new channel. They say Choice TV will be a leading channel in the digital switchover.

“New Zealand is rapidly heading toward the first digital switchover in September and, when that happens, Choice TV will be there to provide viewers with free access to a greater choice of popular programmes,” says Choice TV and Top Shelf director Vincent Burke.

The channel will not feature news content at this stage, but will show locally made documentaries.

It also hoped to gain screening rights for the Film Commission’s extensive back catalogue of feature and short films.

The exact channel number is not yet known, but will be either Freeview 12 or 13.

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21 May 2012 11:45p.m.

susan duncan wrote:

Fabulous! Great interesting tv - keep it up!

24 Apr 2012 03:17p.m.

Loon wrote:

Rod sounds miss informed :)
Digital offers HD, clearer pictures and better sound quality. Guess you have not seen analogue on a modern 32" or larger TV? It looks like garbage..
It's also RF spectrum efficient, you can fit several channels into the bandwith of one analogue channel.
It's more energy efficient; less transmission power is needed to cover the same area, it's more robust and works at lower signal levels.
The VHF band can not carry any more analogue channels than the 4 it already does. With 11 VHF channels you can only reuse the same channels with geographic isolation, due to poor planning in some areas you needed several antennas, or have to put up with mixing signals causing interference, also happens when there is enhanced propagation due to tropospheric ducting.
The list goes on...

23 Apr 2012 01:55a.m.

Eric wrote:

Rod the difference between Digital & Analogue is "the quality is excellent but the software (programs) is braindead" get a DVD and get "Heartbeat" from the UK that is a UK 99%police-1%medical brilliant series over 500 one hour eposodes made, reading your post you need it.

19 Mar 2012 12:03p.m.

bob wrote:

rod it seems you dont watch digital tv the difference between it and analog is like night and day.....get a life rod!!!

15 Feb 2012 03:22p.m.

Maurice wrote:

For those of us that cant get terrestrial Freeview will this new channel be on the satellite platform?

10 Feb 2012 10:48p.m.

Ant wrote:

Rod, it's because analog tv is outdated and old. And as time goes on Analog costs more for the government.

10 Feb 2012 09:41p.m.

AJ wrote:

@rod : the difference in picture quality of digital vs analogue is impressive. Watching shows in HD is a new experience. My understanding is there is no 'feedback loop' with the existing Freeview service such that your concerns are baseless.

10 Feb 2012 06:37p.m.

rod wrote:

whats the whole stupid idea of going digital? why not just put more stations on analog? it appears that the whole world is going digital and for what? tracking purposes?... the digitizing of television opens the VHF band for radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking...soon tv will have RFID scanners to scan RFID chips on our hand or forehead like how they scan and identify dogs and they will use an excuse like "oh we just need proof u r the subscriber and ur tv isnt stolen"...and i bet it wont be called freeview for very long, will be more like pay per view