July 22, 2025 • 4 mins
Sky TV recently bought TV3 - and it's got experts speculating about what this could mean for the future of New Zealand sport.
It's taking over Warner Brother Discovery's New Zealand television arm - including other linear and streaming channels, like ThreeNow.
Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With me. Now is Darcy water Grave, sports talk host
Darcy welcome back, Thank you very much. How was Europe?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, England and Paris. I wouldn't say well London and Paris.
More's the point. We just do to those two major metropolis.
I haven't been to London twenty twenty years. Probably.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, do you have a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
As I love the heat, climbed straight off straight into
my flight, tongue and single it and sandals and a
cat ah. Here we go. Yeah, I loved it, loved
it so much. But the size of that place and
the the expanse of the city and the new business
area that's I'm not new now, but wow. And the
Elizabeth Lion is wonderful. It's a couple of years old.
(00:38):
So I love that in Paris again, beautiful place. The
people are stunning, but the massive humans.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They are literally the first person I've ever heard say
the people of Paris are stunning.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I sat there right and as God not be because
I'm like people watching. So we sat there for a
couple of hours. The clothes and the style and the
way people present in the different and it's something different
to Auckland, New Zealand. All the different nationality. It's all
over the show. So I sat there quite happy, people
gazing four back back. Mighty Kneecap drove all the way
(01:12):
down to Plymouth for five hours to watch these the
band Kneecap, hud.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You actually know who they are or were you just
watching them because they share your frustration about Palestine?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No? No, Katie, my partner, my confidan. What do you
call collaborator? She showed me the movie about six months ago,
and the movie stunning. They're actually acting in it. Those guys.
I'm like, this is awesome. The music's great. These guys
are I love the story, got the record, Listen to
the record. I really like this, and then as it
developed on, it's like, oh wow, your troublemakers too. This
(01:48):
is even funny. You know. It was music first, cinema
and the music first, and then it went.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
On quickly talk about sport. What do you think that's
Sky TV? I'm here for skytyv's purchase of three Must
Make TV and it cuts TV and Z's lunch right TV?
Who TV? Hope they don't they don't matter anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
What does this do for the strength of Sky and
their negotiations with netburn New Zealand and Rugby Newsal.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's what I mean, just got left in the dust.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They had done it. So when Sky Sports sit down
with those two big majors and Netbor New Zealand and
Ragbian Zeland and go okay. So we have now got
a direct fleet free to wear platform that we control
right over the top. We're the umbrella. So we can
give you eyeballs for nothing. We can make people pay,
we can cross promote between our pay for view and
(02:36):
our regular free to air. People also know TV three.
This is not Duke or sky Sports three one open.
Who knows this is TV three. People feel that they
know that, and it doesn't mean much as far as
changing the channel, but people have that comfort. And we
know that Sky have gone through all sorts of dramas
(02:57):
with losing subscribers, gaining subscribers, have turned up, gave them
huge competition, then inadvertently opened up the concept of free
to wear, which has been a boon for some sport.
But they've ridden the wave right the way through. So
this is a considered move. What happens with Netball New
Zealand and Rape New Zealand next based on this acquisition.
(03:19):
I'm fascinated and what it does for both.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Of those on your listen. It's so nice to have
you back.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh thanks, great to see you again.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Jeez, you're here. And I'm also I'm struck by your
energy levels despite the fact that you only landed in
the country about what fortyday.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Morning and I came straight home, turn of the TV
and watched endless sport till about nine week to bed.
God up, Carrid. I don't believe in jetly, okay, I
just don't listen to it. I'm in control of my body,
not the other way around.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Believe in it. It doesn't exist, all right, excisely. Thank you,
Darcy dares wo to grab Sports Talks for more from
Heather Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen live to News Talks it'd
be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on
Heart Radio.
With me. Now is Darcy water Grave, sports talk host
Darcy welcome back, Thank you very much. How was Europe?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, England and Paris. I wouldn't say well London and Paris.
More's the point. We just do to those two major metropolis.
I haven't been to London twenty twenty years. Probably.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, do you have a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
As I love the heat, climbed straight off straight into
my flight, tongue and single it and sandals and a
cat ah. Here we go. Yeah, I loved it, loved
it so much. But the size of that place and
the the expanse of the city and the new business
area that's I'm not new now, but wow. And the
Elizabeth Lion is wonderful. It's a couple of years old.
(00:38):
So I love that in Paris again, beautiful place. The
people are stunning, but the massive humans.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They are literally the first person I've ever heard say
the people of Paris are stunning.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I sat there right and as God not be because
I'm like people watching. So we sat there for a
couple of hours. The clothes and the style and the
way people present in the different and it's something different
to Auckland, New Zealand. All the different nationality. It's all
over the show. So I sat there quite happy, people
gazing four back back. Mighty Kneecap drove all the way
(01:12):
down to Plymouth for five hours to watch these the
band Kneecap, hud.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You actually know who they are or were you just
watching them because they share your frustration about Palestine?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No? No, Katie, my partner, my confidan. What do you
call collaborator? She showed me the movie about six months ago,
and the movie stunning. They're actually acting in it. Those guys.
I'm like, this is awesome. The music's great. These guys
are I love the story, got the record, Listen to
the record. I really like this, and then as it
developed on, it's like, oh wow, your troublemakers too. This
(01:48):
is even funny. You know. It was music first, cinema
and the music first, and then it went.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
On quickly talk about sport. What do you think that's
Sky TV? I'm here for skytyv's purchase of three Must
Make TV and it cuts TV and Z's lunch right TV?
Who TV? Hope they don't they don't matter anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
What does this do for the strength of Sky and
their negotiations with netburn New Zealand and Rugby Newsal.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's what I mean, just got left in the dust.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They had done it. So when Sky Sports sit down
with those two big majors and Netbor New Zealand and
Ragbian Zeland and go okay. So we have now got
a direct fleet free to wear platform that we control
right over the top. We're the umbrella. So we can
give you eyeballs for nothing. We can make people pay,
we can cross promote between our pay for view and
(02:36):
our regular free to air. People also know TV three.
This is not Duke or sky Sports three one open.
Who knows this is TV three. People feel that they
know that, and it doesn't mean much as far as
changing the channel, but people have that comfort. And we
know that Sky have gone through all sorts of dramas
(02:57):
with losing subscribers, gaining subscribers, have turned up, gave them
huge competition, then inadvertently opened up the concept of free
to wear, which has been a boon for some sport.
But they've ridden the wave right the way through. So
this is a considered move. What happens with Netball New
Zealand and Rape New Zealand next based on this acquisition.
(03:19):
I'm fascinated and what it does for both.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Of those on your listen. It's so nice to have
you back.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh thanks, great to see you again.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Jeez, you're here. And I'm also I'm struck by your
energy levels despite the fact that you only landed in
the country about what fortyday.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Morning and I came straight home, turn of the TV
and watched endless sport till about nine week to bed.
God up, Carrid. I don't believe in jetly, okay, I
just don't listen to it. I'm in control of my body,
not the other way around.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Believe in it. It doesn't exist, all right, excisely. Thank you,
Darcy dares wo to grab Sports Talks for more from
Heather Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen live to News Talks it'd
be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on
Heart Radio.
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