Update 5th August 2024: Looks like this channel may now be dead, TV32 now just displays a black screen. Furthermore, TV32 (TV28) no longer appears in the NZ Freeview TV Guide, and if you do an Internet search the TV32 freeview channel link goes nowhere. Looks like BNE (“Best News Entertainment ltd.”) may have decided to pull it. Only knew about it when someone contacted me saying they lost their ability to receive the channel on their TV.

With the demise of TV29 (Panda TV), it would appear the only broadcast Chinese TV Channel available now on NZ Freeview is TV33.

Most people I believe get their content from the Internet these days anyway.

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Original post: Folks, Chinese TV28 on UHF (run by BNE – Best News Entertainment Ltd.) has changed to be on Freeview Channel 32 (to become TV32). Have had a few people ask saying the channel was now missing.

Why they had to shift, I wouldn’t know. I don’t watch the channel let alone any sort of broadcast Television anymore (unless I’m crashing for the night at a Hotel). But it seems a few in my circles still regularly watch broadcast TV.

Personally from what I’ve seen of the TV channel so far tonight, I hereby facetiously call it the Chinese language Real Estate channel given much of the content including programming and ads that is pushing Real Estate over and over and over… and over…

买房，卖房; (Mǎifáng, màifáng)(English literal translation: “Buy House”, “Sell House”), 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房;买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房; 买房, 卖房………. (ad nauseum)

Okay, to be fair, it isn’t all real estate.