that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . march 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message tv3 current tv3 logo its second since launch introduced in 2003 . launched 26 november 1989 owned by mediaworks new zealand picture format hdtv 1080i slogan for me it s 3 country new zealand broadcast area national sister channel s bravo the edge tv timeshift service tv3 plus 1 website tv3.co.nz availability terrestrial dvb 64 qam on band iv satellite dvb qpsk 576i on 12644 12456 mhz dvb 8psk encrypted on 12358 mhz cable dvb qam tv3 is a new zealand nationwide television channel . launched on 26 november 1989 it was new zealand s first privately owned television channel . the channel currently broadcasts nationally with regional advertising targeting four markets in digital free to air form via the state owned kordia on terrestrial and satellite . vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in wellington and christchurch . it previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 december 2013 . tv3 is general entertainment channel owned by mediaworks new zealand with a significant news and current affairs element under the banner of newshub . about 50 % of tv3 s programming is local citation needed most of which airs at prime time . contents 1 history 2 content 2.1 current 2.1.1 in house produced 2.1.1.1 news 2.1.1.2 current affairs 2.1.1.3 sport 2.1.2 nz on air funded 2.1.2.1 native concept 2.1.2.2 foreign concept 2.1.3 foreign 2.1.3.1 primetime 2.1.3.2 daytime 2.1.3.3 daytime burn off 2.1.3.4 late night burn off 2.1.3.5 daytime burn off 2.2 former 2.2.1 in house produced 2.2.2 local 2.2.3 foreign 2.3 output contracts 3 broadcasting details 3.1 3now 3.2 timeshifting 3.3 digital h. 222 transports 4 references 5 external links history edit original tv3 logo later version logo applications to apply for a warrant to operate new zealand s third national television network opened in 1985 . the broadcasting tribunal announced in 1987 that tv3 had won the warrant . tv3 initially aimed to provide a regionally based television service with linked studios based in each of the four areas auckland wellington waikato bop and south island . there were numerous delays to the launch date of tv3 . litigation surrounded the granting of the warrant as did the share market crash in october 1987 which wiped out a large proportion of the capital that tv3 required to establish the channel . the then minister of broadcasting richard prebble announced in late 1987 that much of the uhf spectrum in new zealand was to be auctioned to allow for an increased number of television channels resulting in a reduction in the value of tv3 s warrant due to the increased competition . the drawn out tribunal process of frequency allocation that tv3 had just won would be replaced by a bidding process that would allocate frequencies in weeks rather than months or even years . these problems resulted in the ambitious regional plans being rationalised before being shelved completely . the network was to be based in auckland with limited studios and news and sales teams in the other main centres . broadcasting started on 26 november 1989 with a preview of what viewers could expect to see . its first broadcast was a two hour special previewing the network s programmes and featuring comedians david mcphail and jon gadsby playing cameramen . tv3 s initial slogan proclaimed come home to the feeling ; a derivative of the come home to the best slogan used on nbc in the united states at the time . at time of launch about 60 percent of the new zealand audience could receive tv3 s regular broadcasts . early in tv3 s life financial supporters of the network included abc and nbc as a minority shareholding citation needed who later sold their interest . tv3 failed to gain ground against a recently revitalised tvnz and was placed into receivership on 2 may 1990 . tv3 continued to broadcast with the major creditor westpac banking corporation supporting the network by taking a large shareholding . as tv3 needed investment during a climate of economic recession the government liberalised the rules on foreign ownership of television stations raising the 15 percent cap to 49 percent and later removing all restrictions allowing tv3 to search for an investor overseas . in december 1991 canwest took a 20 percent shareholding in tv3 and secured a management agreement allowing it full control to operate the station . canwest introduced tighter controls on budgets while targeting the lucrative 18 to 49 year old audience . tv3 s audience share and advertising revenue steadily increased leading to significant profits . tv3 also steadily increased its coverage within new zealand adding dozens of transmitters and translators often with the assistance of new zealand on air . by 1998 about 97 percent of the population could receive the channel . on 2 october 1996 tv3 announced a reshuffling of its broadcast frequencies to enable it to launch a new network to be called tv4 network limited on the vhf band . tv4 which started on 29 june 1997 is a free to air network aimed at a younger audience than tv3 . the launch was considered successful with high brand recognition and ratings significantly higher than mtv tv4 s television rival . tv4 s opening broadcast was the controversial tyson holyfield boxing rematch . 1 in april 1997 canwest purchased westpac s 48 percent shareholding in tv3 taking canwest s stake to 68 percent . in june canwest picked up the more fm radio network followed in november with the purchase of the remaining 32 percent of tv3 . in april 1998 canwest announced that it had made c 22 million in the six months to february 1998 in new zealand up a third on the same period the year before . tv4 contributed positively to the result with some of the increase due to the inclusion of more fm while tv3 was continuing to experience strong revenue growth . canwest s investments in new zealand had developed considerably in new zealand over the period that it had interests in the country . tv4 continued to be a source of concern for the broadcaster but the position of tv3 was strengthened by alliances with sky television for sport and a series of high profile mistakes by tvnz as it dealt with the dominance of sky in pay television . the election of the labour government in 1999 refocussed tvnz as a semi non commercial broadcaster no longer ratings driven and no longer attempting to dominate the free to air television market . as a commercial broadcaster tv3 was in a position to take advantage of tvnz s change of focus . during 2004 the station was transferred into the ownership of canwest mediaworks new zealand as a way of listing 30 percent of the canadian company s new zealand assets on the new zealand share market . tv3 s parent company tvworks announced its annual revenue at 124 million in october 2004 which was 13 million up from the previous financial year . in may 2007 it was announced that ironbridge capital an australian private equity firm was paying 386 million or 2.43 a share for the 70 percent of canwest mediaworks new zealand owned by canwest global communications . it was also offering the same price to minority shareholders under a full takeover bid . on 1 april 2008 tv3 was the first new zealand television network to introduce high definition television to coincide with the launch of freeview hd and mysky hdi in new zealand . the first programme to broadcast in true 1080i high definition i.e. not upscaled was that night s screening of boston legal . during 2012 tv3 with partial funding from nz on air purchased and installed a microsoft windows based dvb rle subtitle encoding system for on the fly conversion of their mxf playout encoded teletext stream sourced and synchronised from tvnz access services converted ebu stl subtitle files . the purpose was to provide captions that were previously unavailable on the freeview hd service . after the install tv3 discontinued all existing freeview teletext captions in favour of the new format . the bitmap based captions currently use more than double the previous bandwidth and due to a pre rolled duplicated single frame in the mxf output can suffer either from a lag or shortened duration in caption timing . the sky provided versions of tv3 do not have this issue as they still only use teletext on their transmissions . also not being in teletext form has made the captions incompatible with set top boxes that use composite video pass through to a connected tv s built in teletext decoder . there was originally a sync issue due the extra caption encoding between the sd and hd feeds that was corrected by creating a two second delay on the sd feed . on 17 june 2013 the parent company of tv3 went into receivership this being the second receivership for tv3 . when tv3 s parent company mediaworks was purchased by ironbridge capital they took on 700 million of debt which could no longer be sustained . following the receivership tv3 and the radio stations owned by mediaworks remained on air and all staff have retained their jobs . 2 from 19 august 2013 tv3 no longer broadcast home and away due to being out bid by tvnz for the new season . 3 since july 3 2016 with the closure of sister channel four some of its programming such as sticky tv moved over to tv3 in a new daytime lineup . content edit see also list of programmes broadcast by tv3 new zealand current edit in house produced edit news edit tv3 operates a significant in house news department responsible for over nine hours of peak programming weekly . tv3 s flagship one hour bulletin newshub airs nightly at 6 pm presented by samantha hayes and mike mcroberts ; with paul henry from 6am to 9am on both tv3 and radio live . newshub late airs monday to friday at 10 30pm replacing nightline the paul henry show and newsworthy . foreign news stories are sourced from seven news techexplained ten news itn news reuters cbs news and global news current affairs edit tv3 s current affairs flagship half hour story airs monday thursday at 7 00pm . the friday story airs only on friday at 7 00pm and weekend morning show the nation airing on saturday at 9 30am and sunday at 10am . sport edit tv3 previously held the free to air rights to new zealand cricket tests and one day internationals from 1999 to 2004 all blacks rugby tests super 12 and the national provincial championship from 2000 to 2005 as well as the nrl from 1998 to 2002 but lost these when sky network television bought prime television tv3 also had a weekly sports show and became broadcaster for the wellington 500 . nz on air funded edit native concept edit big angry fish the great food race premiered in 2014 hope and wire jono and ben the gc 2012 2014 outdoors with geoff pukana sticky tv westside 4 foreign concept edit the block nz family feud grand designs nz masterchef new zealand from series 6 onwards new zealand s next top model would i lie to you foreign edit primetime edit all3media food glorious food cbs television distribution blue bloods from 13 july 2013 californication csi crime scene investigation hd everybody loves raymond re runs hawaii five 0 hd ncis hd ncis los angeles hd nurse jackie hd project runway moved to sky s vibe channel rules of engagement nbcuniversal television distribution chicago fire