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Max TV
was a
New Zealand
music channel available free to air on UHF channel 49 in
Auckland
from 28 October 1993 to 3 December 1997.
When Max TV began transmission it was known as
Max: The Music Channel
. The channel was jointly owned and operated by Aztel Holdings (radio personality
Kevin Black
, who owned the frequency licence, and his partner Jeff Thorpe) and On-Line Productions, a video production house.
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The channel initially broadcast from 4:00pm until midnight Monday to Thursday; 4:00pm until 1:00am on Friday; 7:00am until 1:00am on Saturday; and 7:00am until midnight on Sunday. By April 1996 its transmission hours were extended to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
On 20 May 1997, the channel broadcast the music video to
Iggy Pop's
song "Pussy Walk". Local feminist group
Women Against Pornography
considered the music video 'offensive and insulting to women'.
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On 2 December 1997,
Television New Zealand
announced that the channel would close down on the following day.
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