Sky Television (New Zealand)

Sky Network Television Limited

Type	Public
Traded as	NZX: SKT, ASX: SKT
Industry	Subscription Television Online streaming DVD rental Broadcasting
Founded	1987; 30 years ago (1987)
Headquarters	Auckland, New Zealand
Key people	John Fellet (CEO) Peter Macourt (Chairman)
Products	Sky TV Neon Fan Pass Fatso Igloo
Revenue	NZ$928 million (2015)
Operating income	NZ$379.8 million (2015)
Profit	NZ$171.8 million (2015)
Total assets	NZ$1.9 billion (2015)
Total equity	NZ$1.3 billion (2015)
Number of employees	1,200+
Website	sky.co.nz

Sky Network Television Limited is a New Zealand pay television satellite TV provider. It is also a wholesale channel provider to New Zealand cable television provider Vodafone and terrestrial pay television service Igloo, which it also owns and operates. On 31 December 2015, Sky had 860,445 subscribers, making it the largest pay television platform in New Zealand. Despite the similarity of name and services, such as Sky Go, Sky Movies and My Sky+ shared with its British equivalent, Sky, there is no longer any connection between the companies.

The company was founded by Craig Heatley in 1987 as Sky Media Limited.

Sky Media Limited originally formed to investigate the possibility of beaming sports programming into clubs and pubs using high performance 4 metre satellite dishes by Jarvis and an engineering associate Brian Green but was redirected into pay television following successful bidding in 1990 for four groups of UHF frequencies in the Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga regions.

Initially only operating in the Auckland region Sky contracted Broadcast Communications to provide the broadcast service and transmission from its Panorama Road studios formerly owned by defunct broadcaster Northern Television.

The first Sky subscriber was former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Jonathan Hunt, according to Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand.