SKY Sport offers New Zealand's premium sporting content 24 hours a day, seven days a week across a variety of platforms.
Any of the eight channels will satisfy even the hardcore sporting fan as SKY Sport 1, 2, 3, SKY Sport Highlights, Rugby Channel, ESPN , TAB TV and Trackside offer over 60,000 hours of premium sports coverage from across the country and around the globe including an ever increasing schedule of HD content with the majority of New Zealand originated sports events (including replays) broadcast in HD.
International HD content includes US Open, FIFA Soccer, UK Super League, the Tour de France, NASCAR, NFL and NHL.
SKY Sport offers exclusive coverage of many of the world's key LIVE Sporting events including Super 14, Air New Zealand Cup, NRL, Cricket, PGA Golf and Formula 1, with the monies invested in local content directly benefiting those participating at all levels within the various sporting codes.
Along with free-to-air television partner Prime, SKY Sport will offer unprecedented coverage of the 2012 Olympics, with 24 hour coverage of the games across a variety of platforms available to subscribers as well as a selection of PPV (pay per view) and new media options included in their exclusive coverage.
The SKY Sport team boasts many of the country's top technical crew and broadcasters and was appointed the Host Broadcaster for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Ably supported by a dedicated website -
www.skysport.co.nz - and monthly issues of SKY Sport: The Magazine, SKY Sport offers New Zealanders the most comprehensive sporting package available.
PRIME is a national, free-to-air network, which began broadcasting in New Zealand on 30th August 1998.
Some of the channel's most popular shows include PRIME NEWS - FIRST AT 5.30, Top Gear, The Crowd Goes Wild, Getaway, Doctor Who, Mythbusters, Man vs. Wild, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Midsomer Murders.
PRIME reaches more than 91% of NZ homes and is fully owned by SKY Network Television.
PRIME is currently available to New Zealand consumers on four broadcast platforms: Free to air on analogue terrestrial with 91.3% coverage; SKY Digital with 100% coverage(SKY Channel 004); Freeview terrestrial with 75% coverage and Freeview satellite with 100% coverage (Freeview Channel 10).
For further information, please visit PRIME's web site at www.primetv.co.nz
Customers don't need to have SKY to get Prime, Tune in details are available on Prime's Website.
