Auckland, New Zealand: Kordia™ has partnered with Triangle Television to help launch its latest brainchild, ‘Triangle Stratos’: a new, regionally-focused channel that will deliver nationwide, subscription-free programming for the first time.

Triangle Stratos will deliver a mix of local and global programming from a number of sources including other regional stations around New Zealand, locally-based ethnic and minority groups, and international broadcasters including Germany’s DW-TV, Voice of America and Al Jazeera.

Kordia™ CEO Geoff Hunt says that Kordia™ is delighted to have signed the first regional television station onto the digital Freeview platform, and says that helping regional television go national is a huge step forward for local programming and for Freeview.

“We are using our nationwide assets to help get the smaller channels onto the air via Freeview. The Freeview platform, which is powered by Kordia™, will allow Triangle Stratos to aggregate regional content and then redistribute nationwide – which means a richer viewing experience for everyone,” says Hunt.

All Freeview (subscription-free digital television) viewers with a satellite set top box will soon have access to Triangle Stratos in addition to current programming.

Freeview currently comprises free-to-air broadcasters Television New Zealand (TV One, TV2 and TVNZ Sport Extra), MediaWorks (TV3 and C4), Maori TV and Radio New Zealand.

Triangle Television currently operates two regional channels – Triangle Television Auckland, which has been broadcasting for nine years, and Triangle Television Wellington, which launched in 2006.

Triangle Stratos is expected to launch on Freeview later this year.

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For more information, please contact:
Emma Morrison, Kordia™ Communications and Brand Manager

+64 21 916 647 / emma.morrison@kordia.co.nz / www.kordiasolutions.com 

About Kordia™ 

Kordia™ is an experienced trans-Tasman business with a new name, and is one of the region’s leading providers of customised broadcast and telecommunications networks, network services and converged solutions. 

Kordia™ owns one of the largest telecommunications networks in New Zealand and is the major provider of television and radio broadcast facilities. In Australia, Kordia™ provides design, build and maintenance services to the broadcast and mobile telecommunications sectors as well as engineering services throughout the region.

Kordia™’s business is built on creating harmonisation – the ability to meld customers’ ideas into an operating reality, managing technology convergence in today’s fast moving world. 

The name Kordia™ comes from the Latin ‘accordia’ meaning harmony – bringing people and technology together as one. For more information, please go to www.kordiasolutions.com