Cry TV
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Cry TV was a regional music television station broadcast in Christchurch
, New Zealand
between 1993 and 1997.
It broadcast from a shed on the Port Hills, below the Sugarloaf Transmitter.
The channel was notable for the launch of the careers of Petra Bagust
and Jason Fa'afoi, and was removed from the air around the time that MTV began to broadcast free-to-air.
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
between 1993 and 1997.
It broadcast from a shed on the Port Hills, below the Sugarloaf Transmitter.
The channel was notable for the launch of the careers of Petra Bagust
Petra Bagust
Petra Bagust is a New Zealand television presenter, well known as host of New Zealand program What's Really in Our...? and previously What's Really in Our Food?, which first aired on TV3 in June 2008.Bagust is currently co-presenting TVNZ's Breakfast....
and Jason Fa'afoi, and was removed from the air around the time that MTV began to broadcast free-to-air.