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Television channel
Garage
Country
| New Zealand
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Broadcast area
| New Zealand
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Language(s)
| English
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Picture format
| 576i
(
SDTV
)
|
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Owner
| Garage Entertainment Aust Pty Limited (
Madman Entertainment
)
|
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Launched
| 15 May 2015
(
2015-05-15
)
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Closed
| 31 July 2017
(
2017-07-31
)
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Replaced by
| Garage Entertainment (Online VOD)
|
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Website
| www
.garageentertainment
.com
.au
|
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Garage
is a former New Zealand 24-hour linear
subscription television
channel dedicated to action and adventure sports programming on the
Sky TV
platform.
History
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On 4 May 2015, it was announced that Garage would replace
Juice TV
on
Sky TV
effective 15 May 2015.
[1]
15 November 2015 the channel owner Garage Entertainment Aust Pty Ltd was acquired by
SurfStitch Group Limited
. SurfStich in the acquisition statement displayed their ambitions to expand the Garage TV channel to Australia and Asian markets.
[2]
In April 2017,
Madman Media Group
announced it had purchased Garage Entertainment from SurfStitch Group for "a nominal cash consideration".
[3]
The channel closed on 31 July 2017 at 23:59. The brand continues to be used by Madman as a monthly streaming service revolving around extreme sports.
References
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