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'Ōiwi TV, Up In the Cloud

'Ōiwi TV started as a desire to create the first Native Hawaiian television station as a means way to normalizing the Hawaiian perspective in media, now two years later 'Ōiwi TV continues to utilize the latest in broadcast technology to redefine viewers’ experience. Read more...

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Ros na Rún: TG4's Soap with a Salty Flavor

Recent comments by television analysts in the States seem to suggest that soap operas is dead or dying and that long-running drama series lacking violence, a period setting and big-name cast have no future. If this is the case, then TG4’s anchor soap Ros na Rún is certainly bucking the trend. Read more...

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Unfold Rapanui: Reporting the Underreported

This is the image of Rapanui, of Easter Island, depicted in the tourist brochures; a tiny, peaceful, archeology-rich island at the far eastern tip of the Polynesian triangle. Amateur video footage shows another Rapanui... Read more...

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The Latest News from the Oldest Culture ~ NITV Went from Zero to 30 Minutes.

Indigenous peoples are the oldest culture in the world, with a storytelling tradition that has informed over thousands of years. News events were told through the passing of message sticks...

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OUTLOOK

  • It's Our Birthday, It's Your NITV
    It's Our Birthday, It's Your NITV NITV has not had a chance to take a breather and acknowledge our achievements until now; three years since the station went live on Black Friday, July 13, 2007.
  • Haa, Brought to the Youth by the Youth, and In Te Reo
    Haa, Brought to the Youth by the Youth, and In Te Reo You know you’re really inspiring your audience when the kids who used to watch the show grew up and fulfilled their dreams to become its presenters. That’s the case with Haa
  • Hacio – An S4C Current Affairs “Exclusive”
    Hacio – An S4C Current Affairs “Exclusive” There are very few broadcasters in the UK that provide any kind of current affairs programs for young people. But Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has a dedicated current affairs show for young people that has been running for more than a decade.

WITBN Update

  • Time to Decide – A Note from WITBC’12
    Time to Decide – A Note from WITBC’12 Register Deadline: Feb. 17. NRK Sápmi will be hosting the next biennial World Indigenous Television and Broadcasting Conference, WITBC 2012, from March 24 to 30, 2012. New web site launched.
  • Counting Down to WITBC ’12
    Counting Down to WITBC ’12 NRK Sápmi will be hosting the next biennial World Indigenous Television and Broadcasting Conference, WITBC 2012, from March 24 to 30, 2012. New web site launched.
  • WITBN Welcomes Three New Members
    WITBN Welcomes Three New Members WITBN welcomes three new members to the big family of the global Indigenous media alliance.