New Zealand Television Networks: New Zealand Subscription Television Services, New Zealand Television Channels, Television New Zealand

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: New Zealand subscription television services, New Zealand television channels, Television New Zealand, On the Mat, Sky Network Television, Cartoon Network, TelstraClear, Prime, TV One, TV3, TVNZ 7, TV2, M ori Television, C4, Sky News New Zealand, Sky Movies, ALT TV, Four, Trackside, Eating Media Lunch, The Box, TVNZ Sport Extra, Te Reo, Back Benches, Jason Gunn, Animal Planet, The Unauthorised History of New Zealand, M ori Television Service, TAB TV, Wallace Chapman, Living, Vibe, TVNZ 6, TVNZ Heartland, First TV, The Rugby Channel, TVNZ ondemand, TV2 Stars, Comedy Central, Food Television, TVNZ Teletext, Cry TV, SurfCity Cable TV, Subscription television in New Zealand. Excerpt: On the Mat was a professional wrestling television program for the National Wrestling Alliance-affiliated All Star Pro-Wrestling (ASPW), or simply NWA New Zealand, that aired on Television New Zealand's TV2 from 1975 to 1984. One of the most popular and the longest-running weekly sports series in the history of New Zealand, the show featured some of the country's top wrestlers and international stars from throughout the world during the 1970s and early 1980s. On the Mat characterized the golden age of professional wrestling in New Zealand and made household names of promoter Steve Rickard, John da Silva, Robert Bruce and others during the 1970s. Much of the show's popularity was based on native New Zealanders and foreign wrestlers working together against their common enemies or, sometimes, being pitted against each other. Several New Zealand wrestlers such as Tony Garea, Peter Maivia, Siva Afi and The Sheepherders, partly from their television appearances, were brought over to the United States where they became major stars during the 1980s wrestling boom. Likewise, wrestlers from the National Wrestling Alliance, Stampede Wrestling, the ...