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Television New Zealand, Limited, more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a government-owned national broadcaster broadcasting in New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. Although the network identifies as a national, part-public broadcaster, it is essentially fully commercially funded, and was competition free until November 1989 when private channel TV3 was launched. This finally began the battle for ratings with the only real rival MediaWorks New Zealand, which currently operates channels TV3, Four, and C4. However, the company still maintains a number of transmission advantages due to their long standing relationship with the state-owned sister company Kordia.
TVNZ operates playout services from its Auckland studio via Kordia's fibre and microwave network for TV One, TV2, TVNZ Heartland, and TVNZ Kidzone24 with new media video services via the US owned Brightcove which is streamed on the US owned Akamai RTMP/HLS DNS based caching network. Its former channels include TVNZ U, TVNZ 7, TVNZ 6, and TVNZ Sport Extra.
The TVNZ board is appointed by Minister of Broadcasting Craig Foss. Members are: the chairman Sir John Anderson KBE, Anne Blackburn, Bryan Gould CNZM, Sir John Goulter, KNZM, JP, June McCabe and Joan Withers.
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