Three

Privately owned national free-to-air television broadcaster currently available within New Zealand

Entitytelevision stationQ2018133

Also known as TV3 (New Zealand) · Channel 3 (New Zealand) · TV3 NZ · +HR=E · Three (New Zealand) · Channel Three New Zealand

Instance of: television station
Country: New Zealand
Founded: November 26, 1989
Website: tv3.co.nz

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Three is a New Zealand national television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first privately owned television channel. The channel currently broadcasts nationally in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on terrestrial and satellite. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 December 2013.

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Owned by: MediaWorks New Zealand
Language used: English
Social media followers: 91,082(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 32253299
92,402(February 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 32253299
94,357(February 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 32253299

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