Television New Zealand is confident a Commerce Commission investigation will not shut it out of its Igloo joint venture with Sky Television.
The commission said a decision on the Igloo investigation is imminent and Igloo says it is on target to launch at the end of next month, with or without TVNZ.
Sky is playing down the role of its partner, raising questions about what TVNZ brings to the table other than limiting criticism about Sky's overwhelming dominance of pay TV.
After complaints, the commission investigated whether the two parties met obligations to notify the commission on Commerce Act Section 47 obligations on mergers.
"A person must not acquire assets of a business or shares if the acquisition would have, or would be likely to have, the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market," the act states.