One day in mid-June, I walked into the KVCR-TV building in San Bernardino, California, U.S., with Jim Mather, chief executive of Māori Television in New Zealand. We had only just gotten in to Los Angeles late the previous night after an international media conference in Guadalajara, Mexico. Read more...

As Indigenous broadcasters, we have to contend with a multitude of challenges on a daily basis. With our respective Indigenous languages and practices under constant pressure from the majority cultures, we need to stay relevant and actively compete for the attention of our own people and others in a world of numerous options. Read more...

The Sámi Broadcasters are developed in a varied degree in the four countries inhabited by the Sámi people. In Russia it is non-existing, while in Norway, Sweden, and Finland it is organized under the national broadcasters and of varied size. Read more...

July 21, 2011, marked the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan, the media guru who, amongst many other things, coined two famous expressions: “the medium is the message” and “the global village”. Read more...

Aboriginal Peoples in Canada were invisible to almost all Canadians until APTN went to air on September 1, 1999. Before that date, the only opportunities for Canadians to see Aboriginal Peoples, who consist of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples, were only on newscasts when they were the news item. Often, that was for the wrong reason: a protest, a conflict, a major breakdown in relations. Read more...

At 12.51 p.m. on Monday, February 22, the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch, population 348,000, was devastated by an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale.  Damage and devastation was widespread; 181 people lost their lives. Here at Māori Television, we wanted to do something tangible to help. Read more...

Last December, before a gathering in Canberra, Australia, of politicians, public servants, Indigenous leaders and industry people, National Indigenous Television's Chairman, Ken Reys, started his speech with an old literary quote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Read more...

They say the media love elections as much as politicians hate them, but for any public service broadcaster, a general election is a major test. For an Indigenous language channel in a country almost obsessed with politics, it is the supreme challenge... Read more...

Just before Christmas 2010, TITV moved to a new home – from the first floor to fourth floor. As Indigenous elders often say, after reaching the mountaintop, one must be humble to have new visions... Read more...