![]() ![]() TVNZ content, and offshore shows it has rights to, now appears exclusively on TVNZ OnDemand. In June, the state-owned TVNZ made the hard-nosed decision to pull its content from Freeview OnDemand, which was set up collectively by free-to-air broadcasters as a one-stop-shop. There have also been changes on the free streaming side of things. ![]() Next year the first season of Amazon's $1b Lord of the Rings series - the first series of which was filmed in West Auckland - hits Prime. Amazon recently bought Hollywood studio MGM - which includes the James Bond franchise - for $9 billion in a bid to bolster Prime Video content. In February, Disney increased the price of Disney+ by $3 to $12.99 per month as it added more general content from its new "Star" online brand.Īnd in August last year, after winning domestic cricket rights, Spark increased the price of Spark Sport from $19.99 to $24.99, though some Spark customers can still get the service at its old rate.Īmazon's Prime Video remains the cheapest of the pack, on $8 per month - the same price as when it launched in NZ in 2016. The move followed Sky's purchase of Spark's Lightbox service, which was rolled into Neon. Mid-May, Sky increased the price of Neon by 15 per cent to $15.99 a month. It's been a year of price hikes for streamers. Sky recently reported it had a combined 393,000 active subscribers between its Neon, Sky Sport now and RugbyPass streaming services, of a total customer base of 990,000. ![]() But a well placed insider told the Herald that "if you divide the Roy Morgan numbers by the NZ average of 2.7 people per household, you're pretty close" - implying there are around 793,999 paid Netflix accounts in NZ. ![]()
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