Cry TV
Cry TV was a regional music television station broadcast in Christchurch, New Zealand between 1993 and 1997.
It broadcast on UHF channel 56 using a 100 Watt transmitter from a shed on Marleys Hill, on the Port Hills, near the Sugarloaf Transmitter. It was started by Christian Birch and Chris Clarkson. Test transmissions consisted of a camera looking at an aquarium 24 hours a day for approximately 1 month during July and August 1993.
The channel was notable for the launch of the careers of Petra Bagust[1][2] and . Cry TV closed in April 1997, two months before TVNZ launched MTV.
References[]
- ^ "Petra Bagust is an excellent and very professional M/C". Captive Audience. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
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