TVNZ 6 was a digital-only, commercial-free television channel operated by

Television New Zealand , type = Crown entity , industry = Broadcast television , num_locations = New Zealand , location = Auckland, New Zealand , area_served = Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solom ...

. It launched in September 2007, and was available in 60.3% of New Zealand homes on the

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and SKY Television Digital platforms. TVNZ 6 was on air daily from 6AM to 12 Midnight. The name TVNZ 6 was chosen because it was numeric, was deemed to allow 'a broader content structure than any descriptive title', and matches the number assigned to it on the Freeview

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Schedule

TVNZ 6 showed pre-school programs during the Kidzone block from 6am to 6pm. Until its closure at the end of June 2012,

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aired Kidzone from 6am to 8am. Kidzone also received a 24-hour channel on Sky TV called Kidzone24. The channel then played family programmes after Kidzone until closedown at midnight.

At launch

At the very start of TVNZ 6's launch the public service channel had originally structured its daily schedule as 3 separate services titled: TVNZ Kidzone (which had run from 6am to 4:00), TVNZ Family (4:00 to 8:30), and TVNZ Showcase (8:30 to midnight – while TVNZ 6 had closed down at midnight to 6am).

Closure

TVNZ 6 ceased broadcasting on 28 February 2011 and was replaced on 13 March 2011 by ''

TVNZ U , type = Crown entity , industry = Broadcast television , num_locations = New Zealand , location = Auckland, New Zealand , area_served = Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solom ...

'', a "social" channel targeted at 15- to 24-year-olds. Kidzone, ''

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: From the Beginning'' and other TVNZ 6 content moved to sister channels

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and

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. TVNZ U was advertiser-supported and ran from midday to midnight.

References

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