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Technically: @ 23:59 8th Oct, service from transponder 12.456GHz stops, instead the Prime service will be on the Sky NZ 12.707GHz t/p. Other changes confirmed by Freeview TV are C4 & Trackside available on t/p's 12644 & 12671 respectively

BVN Australie - on two transponders.
BVN Australie on 12519 V-pole - symbol 22500.
BVN Australie on 12644 H-pole - symbol 22500.
Use your receivers instruction manual to 'Edit' or 'Add' transponders. To Re-scan select FTA or Free programs.

SBS One and SBS Two left Optus D-1. Report from LyngSat Headlines 10th May 2012.

LyngSat Headlines report TV programs Gem, Go and Ch-9 have left Optus D-1 as of 2nd January 2012

Plug pulled on Stratos Television, the F.T.A. nationwide broadcaster is switching off after 4 years of public service broadcasting despite a growing audience of more than one million. Stratos provided a different window on the world from other channels through the likes of Al Jazeera news in English to a growing number of New Zealanders. (extract from Press release: Stratos)

Today Freeview announced that Prime is now available on both platforms of Freeview. The digital terrestrial service Freeview|HD as well as the Freeview satellite service now have Prime. All existing receivers will be able to be retuned to have Prime and all new receivers will have Prime available.

We are very pleased to announce the latest satellite PVR from DishTV - the S7050PVR. This small receiver is packed with features. It is a USB PVR with HDMI up-scaling to 1080i, a card reader and media player.

With the older PAS8 satellite updated to the new IntelSat 5 now Australia Network and BBC World News are available free to air using only a 1.2m C Band satellite dish.

You no longer need a huge 2.4m dish in your back yard. The 1.2m solid petal dish can either be pole or ground mounted. See the link for more details.

DishTV has released their new satellite receivers. The DishTV S7000 is a FTA satellite receiver that operates on either 12v or 230v. The DishTV S7010 receiver is the 230v only equivilent. These are now available on our products page.

TV3 has just launched a new TV channel on Freeview. The TV3+1 channel is TV3 broadcast one hour later. While this may disappoint you initially, like viewers in the UK you may soon be loving this new channel.

Usually you will find that broadcasters have similar programmes on at the same time and you end up missing one of the programmes. But now TV3 will be one hour later.

Topfield NZ has just released their small TF5050CI HDMI satellite receiver. With a CI slot and Topfield's high quality up-scaler engine, the TF5050CI provides stunning 1080i picture quality from standard definition channels.

FreeTV is pleased to announce that the new Visione VE4000 High Definition receiver for the Freeview HD service via UHF aerial as been released and is available now on our website.

Make the best use of your HDTV with a Visione receiver.

FreeTV will shortly be offering a Freeview approved Freeview|HD receiver.

Supplied by Haute this will be a high quality home theatre receiver worth waiting for.

Keep an eye on our Freeview|HD products page for more information.

The Topfield New Zealand website has recently been revamped and is well worth another visit.

Freeview Satellite has now reached 12 free TV channels and 3 free radio channels. These are: ONE, TV2, TV3, C4, Maori Television, TVNZ6, TVNZ7, TVNZ Sports Extra, Stratos, Parliament TV, Cue, Te Reo, Radio New Zealand National, Radio New Zealand Concert, George FM.

Freeviews digital terrestrial service, called Freeview|HD, launched April 2nd, 2008.

Freeview|HD is available in nine major centres (Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin) covering 75% of New Zealand homes.

See our Freeview|HD products for more information.

After many years of waiting the Freeview Satellite service has launched, providing crystal clear TV reception for all of New Zealand.

According to a recent report Steve Maharey, Minister of Broadcasting, has said TVNZ will launch it's new Home Channel in August and the 24HR News Channel in October. Both channels will be available free on FreeView satellite.

Freeview has announced they will launch in early May (on satellite) with the full advertising campaign starting late April.

This service will include TV One, TV2, TV3, C4, Maori Television and also Radio New Zealand National and Concert Programmes.

Later in the year, it is expected that more channels will be added to the Freeview service.

The terrestrial service (via aerial) is currently scheduled for February 2008.

Many desperate people have been emailing us asking about the NSS5 service that has been shutdown for some months now. We still have no news on it's eventual return. We will be sure to post the news as soon as we hear it.

If you are having trouble reprogramming your Topfield, Fortecstar, X2 or Strong satellite receiver for the FreeView change from Optus B1 to Optus D1, FreeTV is happy to assist.