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New Zealand TV channels

194 New Zealand channels, and how New Zealand TV fills its day

A snapshot of television in New Zealand: how many channels there are, what kind, how busy each hour is, what fills it, how much is repeats.

194 channels7,280 programmes a dayPacific/Auckland
A day of New Zealand TVprogrammes on air, today
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Channels
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10 kinds, from sports down

Programmes today
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Across every New Zealand channel

Repeat share today
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Biggest genre
Other79% of programmes

then factual 7%, then sport 4%

What fills New Zealand TV, hour by hour

Today across 48 channels, the share of programmes in each genre at every hour, local time. Hover an hour to read it.

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Hover an hour to read it.
NewsDramaFactualEntertainmentSportComedyChildrenFilmSoapOther

Most aired in the New Zealand

The weekly chart appears here as soon as its data is live.

Channels by genre

194 channels

sports
10
general
6
movies
6
entertainment
3
lifestyle
2
music
2
culture
1
comedy
1
education
1
religious
1

New Zealand channels A to Z

Every channel we list in New Zealand, with its genre. Their listings, day by day, are in the API.

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Showing 2 of 194. The full list, with every channel's id, is one call: /v1/countries/NZ/channels.

In the API

The New Zealand as data

Every New Zealand channel and its day in a few calls, with the same ids every time. The free key reads yesterday across all of them.

  • /v1/countries/{cc}/channels lists every channel and its id
  • /v1/countries/{cc}/schedule/{date} gives the whole country's day, 50 channels a page
  • /v1/countries/{cc}/most-aired gives last week's chart
curl "https://api.tvschedule.org/v1/countries/NZ/channels?limit=2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TVS_KEY"

{
    "data": [
        {
            "name": "1 TVNZ 1",
            "categories": []
        },
        {
            "name": "10 PRIME",
            "categories": []
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 2
    }
}

Other countries

Every country we list has the same snapshot. These are the deepest.

Questions about New Zealand TV channels

How many TV channels are there in New Zealand?

We list 194 New Zealand channels, airing about 7,280 programmes a day between them.

How much of New Zealand TV is repeats?

Today, across 48 channels, 48% of programmes are repeats. The same episode shown again on the same channel the same day counts as a repeat; news, shopping and fillers are left out.

Can I get every New Zealand channel's listings as data?

Yes. The TV Schedule API lists every channel and gives the whole country's day in pages of 50 channels. The free key reads yesterday; Live reads the week either side.