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| March 24 2025 |
EBS TV
EBS TV was suspended by the Ethiopian Broadcast Authority after airing the rape case story of Birtukan Temesgen.
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| January 2025 |
Cord-cutting
Introduction of the 'Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act' under Donald Trump's second presidency, expected to block piracy IPTV and VOD websites.
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| 2024 |
Cord-cutting
Cord cutting phenomenon began in Argentina, affecting cable providers like Flow and Telecentro due to economic crisis.
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| December 23 2024 | DAZN announced its acquisition of Foxtel for $3.4 billion, with News Corp Australia and Telstra taking minority stakes. |
| October 22 2024 | Sky and Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed a new partnership, maintaining Sky as the exclusive distributor of HBO and Max content in New Zealand. SoHo would be revamped as a linear HBO channel, with Max hub and HBO channel to be hosted on Sky Box, Sky Pod, and Sky Go. |
| July 31 2024 | A&E channel was closed. |
| July 31 2024 | BBC Studios channels BBC First, BBC Earth, BBC News, and CBeebies ceased transmission. |
| June 28 2024 | Sky News Extra ceased transmission. |
| February 29 2024 | Foxtel Movies Thriller channel was closed. |
| February 29 2024 | SciFi channel was closed. |
| 2023 | Prime TV was renamed to Sky Open. |
| 2023 | Foxtel Movies Kids channel was closed. |
| 2023 | Foxtel completed transition away from HFC network, no longer providing services via HFC. |
| August 1 2023 | Paramount channels MTV, Nickelodeon, and Nick Jr. ceased transmission. The channels continue to operate on other providers in Australia and New Zealand. |
| July 2023 | Warner Bros. Discovery renewed its HBO Max programme supply agreement with Sky, without confirming a new streaming service launch in New Zealand. |
| March 31 2023 | Sky TV ended its wholesale channel provision agreement with Vodafone (now One NZ), terminating the long-standing relationship after the previously proposed merger was rejected by the Commerce Commission. |
| March 31 2023 | Sky ceased broadcasting Disney's National Geographic channel. |
| March 1 2023 | Fox Funny channel was closed. |
| 2022 | Sky removed Russian state TV channel RT from its programming in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, following customer complaints and consultation with the Broadcasting Standards Authority. |
| 2022 |
Cord-cutting
Cord cutting became the majority trend, with satellite and cable subscribers dropping to 48 percent.
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| 2022 | Foxtel announced it would be abandoning HFC network in favor of satellite and IPTV services. |
| September 2022 | Foxtel extended their partnership with WWE to become Australia's exclusive home of WWE. |
| February 26 2022 | Foxtel suspended broadcast distribution of the Russian television network RT in Australia. |
| 2021 |
Cord-cutting
A study revealed that cord-cutter households increased internet usage by 22%, reduced payments to multiple-system operators by 50%, and acquired 16% new over-the-top (OTT) video subscriptions.
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| September 2021 | Foxtel released the iQ5 set top box, which can operate in both satellite and internet-only streaming modes. |
| June 24 2021 | Sky announced a partnership with Discovery New Zealand to provide free-to-air coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon on channel Three. |
| June 9 2021 | Sky announced an exclusive partnership with Disney, offering Sky Broadband customers a 12-month subscription to the Disney+ streaming service. |
| May 17 2021 | Sky expanded its broadband service offering to new customers. |
| March 24 2021 | Sky launched its broadband service, initially available only to existing satellite customers. |
| February 5 2021 | The Commerce Commission cleared the sale of Outside Broadcasting to NEP New Zealand. |
| 2020 |
EBS TV
A rape case of Birtukan Temesgen, a second-year student of Dembi Dolo University, was reported.
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| 2020 | Sky ranked Number 9 in the Top 10 Brands Delivering Brand Purpose in the Brand Reputation Index. |
| December 2020 | Broadband service testing was expanded to a small group of customers. |
| December 1 2020 | Martin Stewart left the company to return to Europe, with Sophie Maloney immediately appointed as the new CEO. |
| November 26 2020 |
TVPlayer
TVPlayer's licensing agreement with Discovery expired, resulting in the removal of several Discovery channels from both Premium and free services.
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| November 16 2020 | Sky launched the bundled Sky Sport Now and Spark Sport subscription service at NZ$49.99 per month. |
| October 27 2020 | Sky announced a partnership with Spark, bundling the Sky Sport Now streaming service with Spark Sport for a NZ$49.99 monthly subscription. |
| September 10 2020 | Sky announced staff members, including then-CEO Martin Stewart, were trialing the new broadband service in their homes. |
| September 1 2020 | The Comedy Channel ceased transmission. |
| August 2020 | Skywatch magazine was discontinued completely after moving to digital-only format earlier in the year. |
| August 12 2020 | Sky announced the sale of Outside Broadcasting to NEP New Zealand, part of the American production company NEP Group. |
| July 7 2020 | Lightbox was officially merged into the Neon streaming app, completing Sky's streaming service consolidation. |
| July 1 2020 | beIN Sports and PBS Kids ceased transmission. |
| June 14 2020 | Sky confirmed the merger of Lightbox into the Neon app, to be completed on 7 July 2020. The merged service would retain the Neon brand, use Lightbox's interface, and include content from both platforms. |
| May 21 2020 | Sky announced plans to launch fibre broadband internet plans in 2021, raising $157 million from investors through a discounted share issue to fund market entry. |
| May 4 2020 | Foxtel announced the closure of its music video networks and replacement with MTV, Nick, and CMT-branded channels. |
| April 2020 | Skywatch magazine transitioned from print to digital-only format. |
| February 13 2020 | Disney Channel and Disney Junior ceased transmission. |
| 2019 |
Cord-cutting
First quarter reported as the worst ever for cord cutting, with an annual rate of 4.8 percent.
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