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TVNZ Kidzone

New Zealand television channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ7672200 ↗
Source-derived summary

TVNZ Kidzone was a 24-hour New Zealand children's channel service run by state broadcaster Television New Zealand. The channel ran on Digital 106, channel 46 on Sky and channel 14 on Igloo.

History

Kidzone was originally a 12-hour service running on former TVNZ channel TVNZ 6. It then ran on TVNZ 7 for a year before its closure in 2012. TVNZ launched TVNZ Kidzone as TVNZ Kidzone24 on 1 May 2011, two months after the closure of TVNZ 6, by then, TVNZ 7 was carrying a two-hour Kidzone block.

TVNZ closed the channel on 30 April 2016, due to SKY's contract with TVNZ expiring at the end of that month. It was made available via TVNZ OnDemand on May 1, 2016.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “TVNZ Kidzone” as new Zealand television channel. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around TVNZ, Kidzone and Zealand.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with TVNZ, Kidzone and Zealand providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “TVNZ Kidzone”, the useful work is to connect “new Zealand television channel” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7672200. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2011 and 2016.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “TVNZ Kidzone”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow TVNZ Kidzone primary sources, TVNZ Kidzone archive and TVNZ research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “TVNZ Kidzone” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.