"They are completely in their rights to do this and TVNZ On Demand has been a real success but I do feel aggregation has been a key differentiating factor for Freeview," Freeview chief executive Jason Foden told the Herald soon after TVNZ's move.įoden quit his CEO role at Freeview in August and last month joined Sky as acting chief customer delivery officer. TVNZ content, and offshore shows it has rights to, now appears exclusively on TVNZ OnDemand. In June, the state-owned TVNZ made the hard-nosed decision to pull its content from Freeview OnDemand, which was set up collectively by free-to-air broadcasters as a one-stop-shop. There have also been changes on the free streaming side of things. Next year the first season of Amazon's $1b Lord of the Rings series - the first series of which was filmed in West Auckland - hits Prime. Amazon recently bought Hollywood studio MGM - which includes the James Bond franchise - for $9 billion in a bid to bolster Prime Video content. ![]() In February, Disney increased the price of Disney+ by $3 to $12.99 per month as it added more general content from its new "Star" online brand.Īnd in August last year, after winning domestic cricket rights, Spark increased the price of Spark Sport from $19.99 to $24.99, though some Spark customers can still get the service at its old rate.Īmazon's Prime Video remains the cheapest of the pack, on $8 per month - the same price as when it launched in NZ in 2016. ![]() The move followed Sky's purchase of Spark's Lightbox service, which was rolled into Neon. Mid-May, Sky increased the price of Neon by 15 per cent to $15.99 a month. Why We’re hard at work improving Netflix so that you can have even more great TV shows and movies to enjoy. It's been a year of price hikes for streamers. Your price is increasing to 12.99 per month after Monday, August 19th 2019. Sky recently reported it had a combined 393,000 active subscribers between its Neon, Sky Sport now and RugbyPass streaming services, of a total customer base of 990,000. But a well placed insider told the Herald that "if you divide the Roy Morgan numbers by the NZ average of 2.7 people per household, you're pretty close" - implying there are around 793,999 paid Netflix accounts in NZ.
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