PTV5

*This article contains information that is fictitious and imaginary as PTV Network New Zealand (Patrick Te Pou Enterprises Ltd), which operates PTV5, is a fictional broadcaster.*

### Availability

Television (Kordia/Freeview)Streaming media (PTV On Demand)

### LCN (Freeview)

Channel 9

**PTV5** is a New Zealand free-to-air television channel owned and operated by PTV Network New Zealand.

## Programming

PTV5 is a general interest women's interest channel and targets a demographic of 25-54 year old females. The channel is known for its US reality and unscripted shows, including *The Real Housewives* and *Million Dollar Listing* franchises, *Top Chef*, *Southern Charm*, *Below Deck*, *Project Runway*, *Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry*, *Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian*, *Botched*, *Say Yes to the Dress*, *90 Day Fiancé*, and *The Bachelor USA*.

PTV5 supplements its reality television offerings with "true crime" documentaries such as *Snapped* and *Criminal Confessions*; British factual series such as *Embarrassing Bodies* and *24 Hours in Emergency*; talk shows such as *Loose Women*, *The View*, *Rachael Ray* and *The Drew Barrymore Show*; pop culture news such as *Entertainment Tonight*; reality courtroom shows such as *The People's Court* and *Judge Rinder*; and an array of made-for-television movies drawn from the Lifetime Movie catalogue, combined with "chick flick" blockbusters such as *The Devil Wears Prada* and *Bridget Jones's Diary*.

### News

PTV5 airs *PTV News Updates* that are shown on PTV Network's main channel, PTV1, and from PTV2, PTV3, PTV4 and PTV6. All news updates are broadcast at around 8:00pm, 9:00pm and 10:00pm each evening, i.e. no more than two commercial breaks after their original broadcast on the main channel.

### Sport

PTV Network is a major purchaser of New Zealand sports broadcasting rights and PTV5 has a commitment to netball, one of New Zealand's four highest profile sports. The channel also has live coverage of the ASB Classic (women's week) with highlights on PTV1 and free-to-air coverage of the Farah Palmer Cup, the highest level domestic women's rugby union competition in New Zealand.

PTV5 also broadcasts a weekly sports show, *Sporting Life*.

#### Netball

* **ANZ Premiership:** Live coverage of all games
* **International Netball:** Live coverage of all Silver Ferns games
* **Beko Netball League:** Highlights

#### Rugby union

* **Farah Palmer Cup:**
	+ Delayed coverage of one Saturday afternoon game
	+ Highlights of the latest round of games
	+ Live coverage of the final

#### Tennis

* **WTA Auckland Open (ASB Classic):** Live coverage on PTV5 (women's only), highlights on PTV1

## Broadcast hours

Programming on PTV5 usually starts at 9:00am daily, but transmission starts earlier than usual when a Silver Ferns netball test is played in the UK and scheduled for broadcast in the early morning (New Zealand time). The channel runs through to closedown at around 12:30am but often later than usual on Friday and Saturday nights.

## Availability

PTV5 broadcasts in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on UHF and satellite, and is live streamed on its PTV On Demand website and app.