TVNZ Kidzone was a 24-hour

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children's channel service run by state broadcaster

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. The channel ran on Digital 106, channel 46 on Sky and channel 14 on Igloo.

History

Kidzone was originally a 12-hour service running on former TVNZ channel

TVNZ 6 TVNZ 6 was a digital-only, commercial-free television channel operated by Television New Zealand. It launched in September 2007, and was available in 60.3% of New Zealand homes on the Freeview and SKY Television Digital platforms. TVNZ 6 was ...

. It then ran on

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for a year before its closure in 2012. TVNZ launched TVNZ Kidzone as TVNZ Kidzone24 on 1 May 2011. 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

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on May 1, 2016.

References

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