The Box (New Zealand)
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| Launched | 1994 |
| Owned by | SKY Network Television |
| Picture format | 16:9 (SDTV) |
| Slogan | It's all on... the BOX |
| Country |  New Zealand |
| Formerly called | Orange, SKY 1 |
| Website | www.skytv.co.nz/thebox |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| SKY Network Television | Channel 005 |
| Cable | |
| TelstraClear InHomeTV | Channel 5 |
The Box (stylized as the BOX) is an entertainment channel in New Zealand available on SKY Network Television.
The channel shows are a variety of the most recent shows such as from the United States, for example CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Simpsons, Family Guy, World Wrestling Entertainment's hit shows, and Stargate: SG-1. Some shows are already screened on Free to air TV & The Box will play older episodes of the show.
[edit] History
The channel was started in November 1994 as Orange on SKY UHF pre-set channel 7. Orange broadcast during prime-time and during 1995 Juice TV began broadcasting overnight when Orange went off the air. In 1997, Cartoon Network began broadcasting between 6am and 4:30pm while Orange was not broadcasting.
Orange changed its name to SKY 1 in 1998 and the channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day when the SKY Digital service was launched however the UHF channel continued to screen Cartoon Network during the day time and in 2000 this was replaced with Nickelodeon.
In 2005, SKY Network Television considered unencrypting SKY 1 to make it a free-to-air channel, but decided instead to purchase the existing network, Prime.
SKY 1 relaunched on February 1, 2008 and in the process its name was changed to the BOX.
[edit] Programming
- The 4400
- America's Dumbest Criminals
- America's Funniest Home Videos
- Angel
- Arrested Development
- The A-Team
- Battlestar Galactica
- Baywatch
- BeastMaster
- Bionic Woman
- Blind Date
- Brotherhood
- Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
- Charmed
- Criss Angel Mind Freak
- Dirt Demons
- CSI
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- Dangerous
- Dragnet
- Eddy V Spencer
- Erotic Star
- Family Guy
- Fear Factor
- Flight of the Conchords
- Futurama
- Girl Racers
- Heroes
- Hogan Knows Best
- I Dream Of Jodie
- Law & Order
- Married... with Children
- Monk
- Most Shocking
- My Bare Lady
- Shark
- Sin Cities
- Six Million Dollar Man
- Sledge Hammer!
- Son of the Beach
- Spin City
- Stargate: SG-1
- Stargate: Atlantis
- Starsky and Hutch
- Survivor
- That '70s Show
- The Drew Carey Show
- The Dukes Of Hazzard
- The Simpsons
- The Sopranos
- The Ultimate Gambler
- TNA Impact Wrestling
- Video Vigilantes
- The Villa
- Whose Line is it Anyway?
- World's Most Amazing Videos
- WWE Raw
- WWE NXT
- WWE SmackDown
- WWE Tough Enough
- The X Files
[edit] External links
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