sky network television and tvnz industry prepaid subscription television founded december 2011 defunct may 2017 headquarters auckland new zealand key people john fellet ceo of sky peter macourt chairman of sky sir john anderson chairman of tvnz chaz savage gm of igloo products igloo prepaid pay tv website igloo.co.nz igloo is a new zealand prepaid pay tv service launched on 3 december 2012 . 1 2 3 4 the pace supplied receiver provides customers access to free to air channels through freeview and a small selection of pay tv channels can be purchased for 30 days . contents 1 history 2 service 2.1 channels 2.2 digital h. 222 transport 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit igloo was founded by sky network television and tvnz in december 2011 . details were announced on december 8 via a press release . sky held a 51 % share in the venture while tvnz the minority shareholder has 49 % . tvnz later sold their shares back to sky in 2013 before completely exiting the venture in 2014 . 5 igloo was originally scheduled to start during the first half of 2012 6 however they encountered delays and had to push the launch date back to december 2012 . 7 the service offers free to air hd via terrestrial along with pay tv channels provided by sky to a set top box being developed by sky . it will use digital terrestrial frequencies owned by sky previously used for their analogue terrestrial offering which is no longer offered . sky was required to make use of the spectrum or it would be taken by the government . in july 2016 sky announced that igloo will end its transmissions from march 2017 . customers will no longer be able to purchase igloo channel packs watch front row events or igloo on demand . igloo boxes will still be able to receive freeview channels but without any technical support or the epg . service edit the service is targeted at individuals who may not be able to commit to a contract or do not need all of the channels available from the regular sky pay tv offering . 8 viewers can order live sport events via pay per view on the front row channel as well as stream tv shows and movies using a broadband connection . the device provided by igloo has the ability to live pause when a usb flash drive is inserted as there is no hard disk drive built into the device . an 8gb flash drive will allow for around 60 minutes of live pause . 1 pay channel broadcasting is dvb t2 256 qam transport via uhf channel 30 546 mhz or 31 554 mhz . this is separate from the dvb t 64 qam transports used by freeview . channels edit sky and tvnz defines a virtual channel order that groups channels by importance to the service operator as follows . general entertainment channels are below 20 which includes tvnz s free to air tv one selected hd free to air tv2 selected hd tvnz heartland and tvnz kidzone24 mediaworks free to air tv3 selected hd and free to air four free to air prime front row pay per view sports news corporation s national geographic viacom media networks channels mtv hits and comedy central vibe bbc worldwide s bbc uktv bbc knowledge and bbc world news food television and discovery communications animal planet . all other national freeview channels spillover from 20 to 29 and 35 and from 50 to 59 which includes timeshifted hour delay channels for tv one tv2 tv3 and four government funded maori tv and parliament tv trackside choicetv the shopping channel world tv s chinese channels ctv8 and tv9 and the christian channels firstlight and hope channel . kordia locally inserted channels are from 30 to 34 which for the waikato and bay of plenty is tvcentral for rotorua are tv rotorua and info rotorua for auckland is tv33 and for whangarei is channel north . freeview audio only radio channels are from 36 to 39 which includes basefm . digital h. 222 transport edit dvb encrypted terrestrial services on transport 65 via the dtt sky new zealand dvb network service description irdeto lcn dvb name streams 4101 animal focused reality tv 13 animal planet 2001 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3001 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 2101 teletext subtitle 1101 irdeto key control 4102 bbc worldwide news and information service 16 bbc world news 2002 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3002 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 1102 irdeto key control 4103 us and uk re run sitcoms stand up and sketch comedy 9 comedy central 2003 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3003 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 1103 irdeto key control 4104 bbc worldwide soap operas re run dramas and comedies 7 bbc uktv 2004 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3004 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 2104 teletext subtitle 1104 irdeto key control 4105 uk australian us diy and competition cooking 12 food tv 2005 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3005 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 1105 irdeto key control 4106 bbc worldwide documentaries and reality tv 11 bbc knowledge 2006 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3006 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 2106 teletext subtitle 1106 irdeto key control 4107 music video compilations 15 mtv hits 2007 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3007 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 1107 irdeto key control 4108 tvnz owned packaging of youth shows 14 tvnz kidzone24 2008 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3008 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 1108 irdeto key control 4109 us australian documentaries and reality tv 8 national geographic 2009 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3009 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 2109 teletext subtitle 1109 irdeto key control 4110 tvnz owned archived and funded material 17 tvnz heartland 2010 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3010 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 2110 teletext subtitle 1110 irdeto key control 4111 us uk re runs and reality tv 10 vibe 2011 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3011 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 1111 irdeto key control 4112 pay per view events 6 front row 2012 h. 264 2mbit s 720x576ix25 3012 he aacv2 32kbit s 48000x2 1112 irdeto key control see also edit subscription television in new zealand list of free to air tv channels in new zealand references edit a b igloo tv 8 december 2011 . igloo . igloo new zealand . retrieved 8 december 2011 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name igloo details released defined multiple times with different content see the help page . nz herald 8 december 2011 . rivalry thaws with igloo deal . nz herald . retrieved 28 february 2012 . stuff 7 december 2011 . igloo pay tv details released . stuff new zealand . retrieved 28 february 2012 . stuff 12 november 2012 . igloo aims for pre christmas launch . stuff . retrieved 25 november 2012 . http www.throng.co.nz 2014 08 tvnz announces 25 increase profit . missing or empty title help sky television 24 november 2011 . media release sky and tvnz partner to launch a new digital pay television service . sky network television . retrieved 3 december 2011 . http www.stuff.co.nz technology digital living 7164103 igloo tv service launch delayed throng 16 february 2012 . first look at igloo . throng new zealand . retrieved 28 february 2012 . external links edit official site . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 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