Cry TV was a regional music television station broadcast in Christchurch, New Zealand between 1993 and 1997. It broadcast on UHF channel 56 using a 100 Watt transmitter from a shed on Marleys Hill, on the Port Hills, near the Sugarloaf Transmitter. It was started by Christian Birch and Chris Clarkson. Test transmissions consisted of a camera looking at an aquarium 24 hours a day for approximately 1 month during July and August 1993. The channel was notable for the launch of the careers of

Petra Bagust Petra Bagust is a New Zealand television presenter, podcaster and media chaplain, perhaps best known for her role as co-presenter of TVNZ's morning show ''Breakfast (TVNZ programme), Breakfast''. Career Bagust grew up in Christchurch and atten ...

and Jason Fa'afoi. Cry TV closed in April 1997, two months before TVNZ launched

MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

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