Sunlight TV3

Sunlight TV3 (known as the Sunlight TV3 FoxBox) is an Australian and New Zealand free-to-air channel and operated in a joint-venture between Sunlight Productions, The Walt Disney Company, WWE Network, Roadshow Television and Television New Zealand. It targets all competitors than its sister channel, Sunlight TV1. Sunlight TV3's line up consists of rap-rock, nu-metal, wrestling, fantasy and animated shows. The small number of shows produced for this channel have an extended intro inspired by WWE's Then, Now and Forever and Impact Pro Wrestling's Taking Over theme songs with minimal changes to this version.
Sunlight TV3 was launched on February 1st, 2022 following the shutdown of the former look of Sunlight TV1 (as Sunlight TV, which was relaunched on October 8th, 2022). This marks the first time that this channel has secured a new home for all of the competitive shows which previously screened on Sunlight TV. One year ago, this channel has been marked as the new home of many darkness-themed flavors contributed by M&M's previously chewed in America, including Hazelnut Spread.
== History ==
On February 1st, 2022, Sunlight TV3 was formed as a direct-to-24-hour channel following the dissolution of Prime's former programming block Sunlight TV back in December 2021 because of the franchise going on hiatus. The spark was there, but it needed more.
Sunlight TV3 was the first channel to be held in the southwestern side of Hamilton rather than just Southland.
=== Changes to the Sunlight TV3 version ===
* On October 29th, 2022, an extended intro for both Monster Beach and Monster High was introduced, plastering the latter two intros of the show with the "Then, Now and Forever" intro and an alternate opening featuring Impact Pro Wrestling (with the taking over song being played). The title of this show is named as "Monster High: Live Pro Underground", although the Nickelodeon logo was removed from this version and was replaced with the Sunlight TV3 logo and the animated IPW transition template.
* On November 5th, 2022, Monster High: Live Pro Underground has been aired for the first time.
* On December 17th, 2022, a compilation known as "Best of Live Pro Underground" features some of the existing episodes with minimal changes. This features scenes from the previous three WWE shows such as Raw, SmackDown and NXT.
* On December 17th, 2022 at 6:30PM, on their Facebook page, Sunlight and Veronica are talking about a Depeche Mode influence on Draculaura's singing voice compared to those of Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Imagine Dragons, Neon Shadow and Pendulum.
*As of February 1st, 2023, all of the dark-themed M&M's will be secured as a new home at Sunlight TV3.
*As of March 25th, 2023, Shadow High came to Sunlight TV3 and SPW OnDemand for the first time. At this rate, they have replaced the latter three shows (Reaper Pro, Heathen Combat and Hughes Academy).
*Since 2017, PWE's support for Ever After High used to be extended and was programmed on Remixer's Dream Team 24 until the end of February 2022. As of March 2022, Pacific Coast High replaced this section and the former program has moved to Sunlight TV3 as part of the morning routine.
*Approaching the end of September in 2023, Sunlight TV3 will start picking up new episodes of Pro Wrestling Entertainment for the first time under the title "PWE: The Return of Pacific Coast High".
== January 2023: Shadow High-themed Heathen Combat and new home for M&M's ==
On January 14th, 2023, Sunlight TV3 has announced a new makeover for Heathen Combat in Hamilton's Place. The deathmatch show will be built in a Shadow High format with new rosters and championship matches. It took place after the events of the final 2022 showdown were Horus was voted as the best wrestler of the world. From January 25th to February 1st, the flavors previously contributed to the M&M's have left the American market as Maya Rudolph took over the designation, leaving to just the cancellation. Sunlight TV3 is set to have an international home of the spokescandies by the end of this month because of consumerism issues with the name (Ma&Ya's) being too difficult for everyone outside the US to look at.
== March 2023: The hijacking of Sunlight TV3 ==
From March 8th, 2023, the channel got hacked by an unnamed person who recently snuck into the Sunlight House at midnight. The name of this one is confirmed Wednesday Addams, who previously hijacked other people's areas and showcasing their defeats. At 3:00PM, a disclaimer was written in the middle and it said "Because of a hacked situation, we are evacuating our rooms. We'll return to this channel as soon as possible." This could be a true reference to TVNZ's previously written disclaimer about the fire alarm, but there was no last minute fire alarm in this area.
Between 9:00 and 10:00 at night, the Engineer was on the phone with Twyla about the restoration of Sunlight TV3 due to the incident that occurred during the 2-hour long morning compilation series "Best of Live Pro Underground" at 9AM. She on the phone said to him based on needing their "help" to restore the channel by March 18th or March 25th. As of this occurrence, the channel was temporarily offline. However, the channel was back online and was fixed by then.
== September 2023: Changes to the Freeview expansion ==
As of September 1st, 2023, it was announced that Sunlight TV3 will only be available on Freeview Channel 27 onwards, removing Sky Channel 77 and Freeview Channel 23 from their designations. The switch to this current channel was completed on September 10th and remained available for UHF viewers from now on. This gap has been filled by a 24/7 simulcast of Channel X. A realignment also applied to Remixer's Dream Team 24, announcing the closure of Sky Channel 106 that it will only be available on 7 out of 8 platforms including Freeview Channel 24 and its fan-favorite radio station Coast (as Coastline FM via the UHF satellite and streaming TV) from September 17th.
== February-March 2024: Pending a closure of this channel ==
In 2024, following an announcement of closing down 2 news programs on Three in June, WWE having a Netflix deal and Nickelodeon reverting back to a free-to-air channel, it is not known if Sunlight TV3 with close down at the same time. These were announced by both Warner Bros. Discovery and WWE Network if the changes after the end of June were made possible.
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