Television in the New Michillies

Television arrived to the New Michillies in 1957 as a state-run service. The sector was deregulated in 1989.
==History==
===1957-1975===
The New Michillies had an early interest for television. This was expressed as far back as 1951, two years before Northulia started a service.
There were two bids, one from the New Michillies Broadcasting Service and one from the Park Educational Facility. Eventually Park started an experimental television station in 1953, under the claims that their service would be non-commercial and wouldn't broadcast every day of the week. On the other hand, the NMBS had to build four television stations in order to reach out to the entire country.
NMBC Television started broadcasting on channel 2 in Hawkland in March 1957. Park's service shut down in 1960. By this time, the NMBC was broadcasting four individual television stations under individual call signs and scheduling. In order, WNTV in Wenderland started in October 1957, CNTV in Canterbury in February 1958 and WRTV in Waharoto in June 1958. Building a network was considered to be an impossible task, and proof of it was during the sinking of the TEV Wahine in 1968.
A second television channel started in 1973, known as NMBC Two, and broadcast entirely in color. Said channel started broadcasting on October 31, 1973. On the same date, NMBC Television (who didn't rebrand to NMBC One) started color broadcasts too, yet some programs seen on the channel would still be in black and white. The switchover to color lasted for two years and was in readiness for the 1974 Anglophony Games.
===1975-1980===
The NMBC was dissolved into three separate units: Radio New Michillies, Television One and TV2. In 1976, TV2 was renamed South Northulic Television. TV One and TV2 both accused that they were competing against each other and that this situation was considered to be "absurd".
===1980-1989===
The government merged TV One and South Northulic Television under Television New Michillies, with the aim of emulating Eurectipherian broadcasters like the NBS through the philosophy of complementary programming. South Northulic Television became TV2.
===1989-2004===
In 1988, following major economic reforms to the state sector, the BCNM was dissolved. TVNM and Radio New Michillies became separate "State-Owned Enterprises" (SOEs) which would have to compete commercially and return dividends to the government.
Rather than continuing to be used to directly fund TVNM and RNM, the licence fee, now called the broadcasting fee, was to be used for local content production and the state funding for non-commercial broadcasting in radio and television on a contestable basis. As part of wide-ranging reforms in the broadcasting sector, the Labor government of David Lange established the Broadcasting Commission, which became known as and finally called New Michillies on Air.
Broadcasting in the New Michillies was deregulated in 1989. Restrictions on television advertising were also revised in 1989, so that TVNM channels could show advertisements anytime except Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, and between 6am and noon on Nonmac Day. In that year, TV3 became the first privately owned TV station in the country, finally ending the state monopoly. Restrictions on foreign ownership were also removed, and TV3 was subsequently sold to Keithland's Keithwest.
===2004-2013===
===2013-present===
==Overview==
===Terrestrial===
====National channels====
Freeview (New Michillies)
*1 - TVNM 1
*2 - TVNM 2
*3 - Three
*4 - Four
*5 - Māori Television
*6 - TVNM 6
*7 - TVNM 7
*8 - Prime
*9 - Aotearoa
*10 - Eden
*11 - The Edge TV
*12 - TVNM Duke
*13 - Newshub 24
*14 - Bravo
*15 - TVNM Gold
*16 - Al-Jazeera
*17 - HGTV
*18 - Viceland
*20 - PNM
*24 - TVNM Kidzone
*33 - KTV 33
*34 - Te Reo
*40 - Parliament TV
====Regional channels====
There is currently a limited number of regional television channels in the New Michillies.
===Cable===
Currently there is only one cable television operator: Vodafone. Before Vodafone's acquisition of Clear Cable (which had split up from Clear in 2001) and the merger with Saturn Cable in 2002, there were several cable providers mainly not dependent on SKY relays.
Some cities had SKY relays on cable, sometimes carrying the UHF offer, sometimes adding a few extra channels.
===IPTV===
Spark (formerly Telecom) runs an IPTV service since September 2005. Similarly to Vodafone, it acts as a reseller of SKY Television content. The service is available in metropolitan areas.
===Satellite===
There has always been only one satellite provider: Sky Network Television.
===OTT===
==Program genres==
===News===