Destiny Church is unhappy with a decision made by TVNZ to dump its early morning religious broadcast in favour of a children's cartoon.

For three years Destiny TV services have run on TV Two at 6:30am weekdays.

Their contract was renewed in July, then in August the church staged its Enough is Enough march on parliament.

Three weeks later TVNZ gave Destiny its marching orders.

"After the Enough is Enough march and some members of my church entering politics we suddenly find that this is too hot too handle for them, so they've got to shut us down and so they go straight for my programme," Church leader Brian Tamaki told One News.

But TVNZ's spokesperson Avon Adams disagrees.

"Well that's completely and utterly erroneous. Television New Zealand as I mentioned has a contract with all infomercial providers regocnising that if we need that particular timeslot for programming we can take the timeslot back," Adams says.

TVNZ says its new charter influenced the move. The New Zealand made cartoon Buzz and Poppy now fill the time slot.

"We have recognised there is a need for increased children's programming so we have taken that slot back and we're going to be running ad free children's programming in the mornings," Adams says.

This Is Your day with Benny Hinn and another American evangelical infomercial will continue to air between five and six in the morning. TVNZ says it would be inappropriate business practice to replace one of these infomercials with another informercial such as Destiny TV.

But Pastor Brian Tamaki is adamant it is an attack on him.