This article is a list of

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

channels in New Zealand.

New Zealand broadcast channels

;Notes * The PAL-B&G (analogue) television switch off was completed on 1 December 2013. AM and FM radio is unaffected. * DVB

64-QAM Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is the name of a family of digital modulation methods and a related family of analog modulation methods widely used in modern telecommunications to transmit information. It conveys two analog message signa ...

terrestrial channels use

ITU The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU: * * is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established ...

system G channel allocations within

UHF Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter ...

television

band IV Band IV is the name of a radio frequency range within the ultra high frequency part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Sources differ on the exact frequency range of the band. For example, the ''Swiss Federal Office of Communications'', the ''Broadc ...

and

band V Band V (meaning ''Band 5'') is the name of a radio frequency range within the ultra high frequency part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is not to be confused with the '' V band'' in the extremely high frequency part of the spectrum. Sources ...

. On 1 December 2013, Band V above 698 MHz was reallocated to LTE mobile telephony, hence some channels that were broadcasting on Band V above 698 MHz on 30 November 2013 have been forced off air until a new frequency is allocated. * All digital terrestrial television channels are encoded in

H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. It is by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and d ...

and subject to a MPEG-LA controlled transmission

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tax which is in included in the Freeview broadcaster cost and varies on viewership figures. * High-definition

1080i In high-definition television (HDTV) and video display technology, 1080i is a video display format with 1080 lines of vertical resolution and Interlaced video, interlaced scanning method. This format was once a standard in HDTV. It was particular ...

DVB

are only available on TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, Three, Whakaata Māori, TVNZ Duke, Sky Open, Trackside 1 & 2. All other TV channels are standard-definition

576i 576i is a standard-definition television, standard-definition digital video mode, originally used for Digitization, digitizing 625 lines, 625 line Analog television, analogue television in most countries of the world where the utility frequen ...

anamorphic widescreen Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 standard-definition frame, for example) with a narr ...

. * ''Metro'' means Kordia owned sites only in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier/Hastings, Palmerston North, the Wellington metropolitan area (including Kapiti), Christchurch and Dunedin. * A grey box in the

column means the channel(s) is temporarily off-air. * All New Zealand operated

direct-broadcast satellite Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems ...

channels are from

Optus D1 This is a list of the satellites operated by Optus, an Australian telecommunications company. The satellite communications facility is located at Belrose on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Optus' satellites are divided into 4 classes A, B, C and D. As ...

at 160.0°E, and can be received via a standard 60 cm

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. There are two main up-links - the original one from

Sky The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the planetary surface, surface of the Earth. It includes the atmosphere of Earth, atmosphere and outer space. It may also be considered a place between the ground and outer space, thus distinct from ...

in Auckland, on transports 3 @ 12519 MHz, 5 @ 12644 MHz or 6 @ 12671 MHz and the one from

TVNZ Television New Zealand (, "Te Reo Tātaki" meaning "The Leading Voice"), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a New Zealand state-owned media company and Crown entity. The company operates a television network, streaming service, and news se ...

's Avalon comm hub in

Lower Hutt Lower Hutt () is a list of cities in New Zealand, city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington#Wellington metropolitan area, Wellington metropoli ...

, with channels broadcast on either

Freeview Freeview may refer to: *Freeview (Australia), the marketing name for the digital terrestrial television platform in Australia *Freeview (New Zealand), a digital satellite and digital terrestrial television platform in New Zealand *Freeview (UK), a ...

transport 21 @ 12456 MHz or 22 @ 12483 MHz. *

IPTV Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Usually sold and run by a Telephone company, telecom provider, it consists of broadcast live telev ...

resolution is generally better than

due to not being scaled to an

width of 720, but may be lower depending on the bandwidth selected or calculated at the time of connection. Playback performance may vary with network traffic conditions. Most metropolitan New Zealanders have access to fibre broadband.

Television stations in NZ-associated states

Cook Islands

* Cook Islands Television *Vaka Television

Niue

* TV Niue

Foreign satellite channels

The following is a list of

DVB satellite servicesOptus D1 at 160.0°E – LyngSat:
/ref> available in New Zealand. Most New Zealand homes already have a standard 60 cm

satellite dish A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite televisio ...

fitted which can pick up most of these channels, as these are also used (or have been used in the past) to pick up free-to-air and pay New Zealand television channels from Optus D1 (and historically, Optus B1). A frequency scanning (aka blind-scan) capable

set-top box A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable converter box, cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a Tuner (radio)#Television, TV tuner inpu ...

can be used to locate other services.

References

External links

TV transmitter details: click on area then transmitter symbol
* Freeview NZ'
complete list of aerial and satellite free-to-air channels in New Zealand
{{DEFAULTSORT:Free-to-air channels in New Zealand Television in New Zealand New Zealand television-related lists