TVNZ Kidzone | |
Launch Date: | 1 May 2011 |
Closed Date: | 30 April 2016 |
Owner: | Television New Zealand, Ltd. |
Country: | New Zealand |
Area: | National |
Sister Channels: | TV One TV2 U TVNZ 7 TVNZ Heartland TVNZ Pop-up Duke |
TVNZ Kidzone was a 24-hour New Zealand children's channel service run by state broadcaster Television New Zealand. The channel ran on Digital 106, channel 46 on Sky[1] and channel 14 on Igloo.
Kidzone was originally a 12-hour service running on former TVNZ channel TVNZ 6. It then ran on TVNZ 7 for a year before its closure in 2012. TVNZ launched TVNZ Kidzone as TVNZ Kidzone24 on 1 May 2011, two months after the closure of TVNZ 6, by then, TVNZ 7 was carrying a two-hour Kidzone block.[2]
TVNZ closed the channel on 30 April 2016, due to SKY's contract with TVNZ expiring at the end of that month. It was made available via TVNZ OnDemand on May 1, 2016.[3]