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Triangle Television is the latest broadcaster to jump on the Freeview bandwagon, bringing regional TV to the whole country.
Triangle Stratos will broadcast a mix of local and global programming from the country's regional stations, and locally-based ethnic and minority groups. As well there will be news and current affairs from Germany's DW-TV, Voice of America and Al Jazeera. Not all of it will be broadcast in English.
Triangle will continue screening as usual in Auckland and Wellington but Stratos will have its own schedule to suit a national audience, says CEO Jim Blackman.
"It will have more of a focus on the regional content so we'll be working with the regional stations around the country," he said.
Freeview viewers with a satellite set top box will have access when the free channel, which is expected to launch in early October on Channel 21, begins.
