Choice TV

Choice TV
Launched	28 April 2012
Owned by	Blue Ant Media
Picture format	16:9 (SDTV)
Country	New Zealand
Language	English
Headquarters	Mount Eden, Auckland
Sister channel(s)	HGTV
Website	http://www.choicetv.co.nz/
Availability
Terrestrial
DVB 64-QAM on band V
Satellite
DVB QPSK on 12456 MHz
Cable
DVB QAM

Choice TV is the third largest, privately owned, national free-to-air television broadcaster in New Zealand and has been on air since 2012. In November 2014, Canada's Blue Ant Media bought a majority stake in Choice TV, marking the group's first international expansion.

Choice TV was launched on 28 April 2012, at 5 p.m. It is broadcast nationally on the Freeview digital TV network Channel 12 and on SKY Television Channel 24.Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in Wellington and Christchurch. According to the Nielsen ratings, the channel's four-week cumulative audience is about 1.8 million people since January 2014 - New Zealand's population being 4.1 million.

The channel features programs on topics such as: property renovation, home and garden, food, travel, adventure, fishing, entertainment, comedy, and drama.

The Choice TV line-up includes programs from the UK's BBC worldwide, ITV Granada, Verve Productions, Zodiak Media, the Australian SBS, ABC, Fremantle Media, as well as productions from Sony Pictures Television.

Together with Top Shelf Productions, Choice TV developed a local series which aired in the Spring of 2014 on the channel's Thursday Food Night.

From 17 October 2014, Choice TV aired their own New Zealand gardening show, Get Growing, as well as a program called Cook the Books, which first aired on 30 October 2014.

The prime time programming slot (7:30–10:30pm) features a different daily theme:

Additionally, Choice TV produces several television shows:

In September 2012, Choice TV aired its own TV morning show called Brunch with April Ieremia and former All Black rugby player Josh Kronfeld hosting.

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