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The channel will give viewers an option as to when they do their television viewing. It will give audiences an extra opportunity to view some of the most popular shows on the network such as 3 NEWS, Campbell Live, New Zealand’s Next Top Model and Underbelly: The Mr Asia Story.

Plus 1 channels launched in the international markets have proved to be very successful, achieving very strong ratings results, particularly in the United Kingdom.

Rick Friesen, Director of Special Projects for MediaWorks TV says, “The channel is an exciting addition to the Freeview platform’s line-up and will give consumers another reason to move to digital television. So many viewers have told us they just can’t make it to their television set for the 6pm news. Well now, they can tune in at 7pm and get all the news at an alternate time.”

Steve Browning, General Manager of Freeview comments, “Plus 1 channels are very popular in advanced digital TV markets and Freeview is the first digital TV and radio platform in NZ to provide Kiwi’s with such a service. We are sure that Freeview owners will enjoy the added flexibility that two timeslots for each of TV3’s primetime shows provides.”

TV3 Plus 1 will be available on Freeview Channel 8 from midday on Monday, 30 March, 2009.

Update: The signal is now live on Freeview.

The votes are in and the results are out.  After adding up the near 400 votes from visitors to dannews.co.nz over the last 5 weeks we can finally reveal the winners.

View the video below to see who has won what in 2008.

The results also gave Breakfast the edge over Sunrise (64% vs 36%) in the morning news category and 3 News overwhelmingly won the majority of the vote when it came to the best set ( 80% vs 20%).

In answer to the question “If you could change anything about news broadcasts in New Zealand what would it be?” there was a wide variety of responses. Including:

- “Shave Sainsbury”

- “Would like to see Philip Sherry reading the news and using his style of presenting, instead of the naked ladies we have now.”

- “Less blatant Labour bias by Political Editor Duncan Garner on TV3″

- “Less National Party bias from Duncan Garner”

- “The One News set”

- “Less serious news, more infotainment”

- “Less infotainment, more news”

Well done to the winners and thanks to everyone that voted. Merry Christmas to you all and I look forward to doing it all again, bigger and better in 2009.

Dan News.

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