TVNZ 6 was a digital-only, commercial-free television channel operated by Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand, more commonly referred to, and stylized as TVNZ, is a government-owned corporation television network broadcasting in New Zealand and parts of the Pacific. It operates TV1, TV2, TVNZ7, TVNZ Heartland, TVNZ U and new media services....

. It was available in 60.3% of New Zealand homes on the Freeview and SKY Television Digital

SKY Network Television

Sky Network Television Limited , , is a New Zealand pay television service. On 30 June 2011, Sky had 829,421 subscribers, which comprises:*808,617 digital subscribers*20,840 other subscribers...

 platforms. TVNZ 6 was on air daily from 6AM to 12 Midnight.

The name TVNZ 6 was chosen because it was numeric, was deemed to allow 'a broader content structure than any descriptive title', and matches the number assigned to it on the Freeview electronic programme guide.

TVNZ 6 Kidzone

TVNZ 6 showed pre-school programs during the block Kidzone from 6am-6pm. Now TVNZ 7 shows Kidzone from 6am to 8 am. Kidzone is also going to get a 24 hour channel on Sky TV called Kidzone24. The channel then played family programmes after Kidzone until closedown at midnight.

Previously

At the very start of TVNZ 6's launch the public service channel had originally structured its daily schedule as 3 separate services titled: TVNZ Kidzone (which had run from 6am to 4:00), TVNZ Family (4:00 to 8:30) and TVNZ Showcase (8:30 to midnight - while TVNZ 6 had closed down at midnight to 6am).

Closure

TVNZ 6 ceased broadcasting on February 28, 2011 to be replaced on March 13, 2011 by TVNZ U, a "social" channel targeted at 15–24 year olds. Kidzone, Shortland Street

Shortland Street

Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...

: From the Beginning and other TVNZ 6 content moved to sister channels TVNZ 7 and TVNZ Heartland

TVNZ Heartland

TVNZ Heartland is a pay TV channel operated by TVNZ featuring 100% New Zealand made shows, most shows are re-runs of classic shows previously screen on New Zealand TV as well as some more recent shows. While TVNZ channels are traditionally available free to air TVNZ Heartland is available...

. TVNZ U will be advertiser-supported and will run from midday to midnight.

Programming

• Animal Academy
• Artland USA
• Animal Stories
  Animal Stories
  Animal Stories is a British pre-school animated television series. Cartoon Network TOO began airing this program on 5 June 2006. It also aired on Playhouse Disney in the US in the early 2000s.-References:...
  
  
• Are We There Yet
  Are We There Yet (TV show)
  Are We There Yet?: World Adventure is a Canadian children's television show created by J.J. Johnson that features real-life siblings exploring the world. The show can be seen in 7-minute or 30-minute formats. The series premiered September 3, 2007, on Treehouse TV...
  
  
• The Backyardigans
  The Backyardigans
  The Backyardigans is a Canadian/American 3-D CGI-animated children's TV series, created by Janice Burgess. It features five animal children, who imagine that their backyard becomes an adventure place. It is a coproduction of Treehouse TV, and the Canadian animation studio Nelvana. Debuting on...
  
  
• Beyond Tomorrow
  Beyond Tomorrow (TV series)
  Beyond Tomorrow is an Australian television series produced by Beyond Television Productions. It began airing in 1981 as Towards 2000, then in 1985 was renamed Beyond 2000, a name the show kept until its cancellation in 1999...
  
  
• The Big Chair
• Big Ideas for a Small Planet
  Big Ideas for a Small Planet
  Big Ideas for a Small Planet is an American documentary series on the Sundance Channel which focuses on environmental innovations such as alternative fuel and green building techniques. The series premiered on the iTunes Store prior to its release on the Sundance Channel on April 17, 2007...
  
  
• Bob and Rose
  Bob and Rose
  Bob & Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in the autumn of 2001. It was produced for the network by the independent Red Production Company, and was that company's first prime-time drama for the ITV network.Bob & Rose was the...
  
  
• Boblins
  Boblins
  Boblins is a high-definition-ready animated educational television show for preschool children produced by the British company . The show, which runs in 10 minute segments, is broadcast internationally, being shown in the UK on CITV, in Canada by Treehouse TV, in Denmark by DR1, in New Zealand on...
  
  
• Bumble
  Bumble
  Bumble may refer to:* Bumble , a New Zealand children's show* Oliver B. Bumble, a fictional bear in a series of Dutch comic books by Marten Toonder* David Lloyd , nicknamed Bumble* Mr...
  
  
• Buzz and Poppy
• Baby Looney Tunes
  Baby Looney Tunes
  Baby Looney Tunes is a Canadian-American animated television series that shows Looney Tunes characters as toddlers. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation....
  
  
• Caillou
  Caillou
  Caillou is a Canadian children's television show based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Many of the stories in the animated version began with a grandmother introducing the story to her grandchildren, then reading the story about the book...
  
  
• Clifford the Big Red Dog (TV series)
• Clifford's Puppy Days
  Clifford's Puppy Days
  Clifford's Puppy Days is an animated television series on PBS Kids. It is a spin-off of the Clifford the Big Red Dog TV series, and it features Clifford the Big Red Dog, a popular cartoon character. It is set when Clifford was a puppy...
  
  
• City Life
  City Life
  City Life may refer to:* Urban culture, the culture of cities* CityLife , a 2004 urban project in Milan* City Life , a 1994 musical work by Steve Reich* City Life , a New Zealand soap opera...
  
  
• Coolfuel Roadtrip
• Country Calendar
  Country Calendar
  Country Calendar is a television series covering rural life in New Zealand. Established in March 1966 and screening every year since, it is New Zealand's longest-running television series...
  
  
• Cover Story
• Darcy's Wild Life
  Darcy's Wild Life
  Darcy's Wild Life is an American-Canadian television series, filmed during 2004-2006, and broadcast on Discovery Kids and the Family Channel. The show revolves around Darcy Fields , the daughter of an eccentric actress who decides to move away from Malibu to raise her daughter in a more normal...
  
  
• Don't Blame The Koalas
• The Dress Up Box
• Engie Benjy
  Engie Benjy
  Engie Benjy was a pre-school children's television show, broadcast on ITV's children's strand, CITV. Engie Benjy is a blue haired boy, a mechanic who helps fix problems with his friends' vehicles. His dog is Jollop. Other characters include Pilot Pete and Astronaut Al...
  
  
• Epitaph
• Fireman Sam
  Fireman Sam
  Fireman Sam is a Welsh animated children's television series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other townspeople in the Welsh town of Pontypandy . The original idea for the show came from two ex-firemen from Kent...
  
  
• Fortysomething
• Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock is a children's live action puppet television program series created by Jim Henson. The central characters were a set of "Muppet" creatures called Fraggles. The show ran from January 10, 1983, to March 30, 1987, on CBC Television in Canada, ITV in the UK, HBO in the United States,...
  
  
• George and Martha
  George and Martha
  George and Martha is an animated children's television show which comprises 26 episodes made in 1999. The program revolves around the lives of two hippos: George and Martha...
  
  
• Homesick Extra

*Hurray for Huckle

• in beTWEEN
• It's In The Bag
• The Kapiti Art Project
• Kidzone
• The Killian Curse
  The Killian Curse
  The Killian Curse is a 7 part New Zealand kidult horror-fantasy television show, directed by Thomas Robins and Wayne Vinton, and starring Nick Blake, which tells the 21 stories of the students from Room 21, who must each face an evil curse placed on them by the sinister Charles Killian...
  
  
• Kiwis At War
• Korero Mai

• The Krypton Factor
  The Krypton Factor
  The Krypton Factor was a British game show produced by Granada Television for broadcast on ITV. The show originally ran from 7 September 1977 to 20 November 1995, and was hosted by Gordon Burns and usually broadcast on the ITV network on Mondays at 19:00....
  
  
• Market Forces
  Market Forces
  Market Forces is a science fiction novel by Richard Morgan, first published in 2004.Set in 2049 in the wake of a global economic downturn called the Domino Recessions, it follows up-and-coming executive Chris as he plunges into the profitable field of Conflict Investment...
  
  
• Marlin Bay
• Meet The Locals
• Mercury Lane
• Mercy Peak
• Milly Molly
• Mr. Bean (animated TV series)
• Mirror Mirror
  Mirror, Mirror (TV series)
  Mirror, Mirror is a television programme co-produced by Australia and New Zealand. Presented as a single complete story given in a serial with 20 episodes, there are cliffhangers between some of the episodes....
  
   and Mirror, Mirror II
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
  Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
  Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is an animated program based on the children's books by David Kirk, which airs on Nick Jr. in the United States, on Treehouse TV in Canada, and on Discovery Kids in Brazil...
  
  
• Movies 101
• Mucking In
  Mucking In
  Mucking In is a New Zealand "lifestyle" television programme that airs on Television One. It is hosted by Jim Mora. He is assisted by gardener Tony Murrell....
  
  
• My God
• Natural History Documentaries
• Number Jacks
• Noddy (character)
• Park Rangers
• Party Animals
  Party Animals
  Party Animals is an album by the Norwegian band Turbonegro released in April 2005 in Norway and May 2005 in the rest of Europe. It is the final album in the Apocalypse trilogy...
  
  
• Pecola
  Pecola
  Pecola is a Japanese 3-D Anime series that was computer-generated in Canada, with cube-shaped anthropomorphic animals in a place called Cube Town. It is based on a series of children's picture books by Naomi Iwata. The show stars Pecola, a curious and hyperactive penguin that tries to help the...
  
  
• Plainclothes
• Postman Pat
  Postman Pat
  Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale .Postman Pat's first 13-episode season was screened on...
  
  
• The Private Life of a Masterpiece
  The Private Life of a Masterpiece
  The Private Life of a Masterpiece was a BBC arts documentary series which told the stories behind great works of art; 29 episodes of the series were broadcast on BBC Two, commencing in 2001 and ending in 2010. It initially ran for five seasons from 2001 to 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each...
  
  
• The Pied Piper of Hamlin
• Puzzle Inc
• Rough Science
  Rough Science
  Rough Science is a British documentary reality television series made by the BBC in collaboration with the Open University. Six series were made between 2000 and 2005. It was broadcast in prime time on BBC Two and is considered something of a "break-out hit" for the Open University...
  
  
• Rubbadubbers
  Rubbadubbers
  The Rubbadubbers is a British stop motion animation children's show from Hot Animation which is owned by HIT Entertainment.-Plot:The television show features characters who are animated bath toys. They often excitedly announce that the children are about to take a bath.-Format:Each episode begins...
  
  
• Science Shack
  Science Shack
  Science Shack was a BBC television series screened in 2001 and 2002. It was presented by Adam Hart-Davis and produced by Leeds UK-based Screenhouse Productions. The series set out to answer science questions by performing experiments...
  
  
• Serious Amazon
• Shark in the Park
  Shark in the Park
  Shark in the Park wasa New Zealand television drama series. A police procedural, it revolved around the professional and private lives of a group of officers at a Wellington police station under the command of Inspector Brian "Sharky" Finn...
  
  
• Shortland Street
  Shortland Street
  Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...
  
  (from the beginning)
• Silver Sun
  Silver Sun
  Silver Sun may refer to:*Silversun , an Australian TV series*Silver Sun , an English rock/pop band*Silversun Pickups, an American indie rock band...
  
  
• Stressed Eric
  Stressed Eric
  Stressed Eric is a British/American/New Zealand cartoon series that was produced by Absolutely Productions for the BBC Two television channel in the United Kingdom and the Television New Zealand. The series revolves around Eric Feeble, a middle class man who is always stressed, because of his...
  
  
• The Go Show
• The Sitting
• The Story of Tracy Beaker
  The Story of Tracy Beaker
  The Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's book first published in 1991, written by Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Nick Sharratt.-Background:...
  
  
• The Hive (TV show)
  The Hive (TV show)
  The HIV is a CGI animated children's television series broadcast by Playhouse Disney TVNZ6 Cartoonito and CITV in February 2010. The series is of 13 episodes each of 7 minutes.-Premise and format:...
  
  
• The WotWots
  The WotWots
  The WotWots is a New Zealand children's television show which debuted in 2009.The show features two aliens, named SpottyWot and DottyWot, who spend their days exploring a zoo where their steam-powered spaceship has landed.This show also plays on Canada's Treehouse TV which played in early 2010.-...
  
  
• Takapu
  Takapu
  Takapu is:*The New Zealand name for the Australasian Gannet, a seabird.*HMNZS Takapu, a patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy*Takapu Road in Wellington, New Zealand, is the location of Takapu Road Railway Station....
  
  
• Volunteer Week
• What's Good For You?
• Wonder Pets
• You and Me
  You and Me (New Zealand TV series)
  You and Me was a popular children's television programme hosted by Australian-born New Zealand entertainer Suzy Cato. The first episode aired in 1993 and more than 2000 episodes were produced in the next seven years...