OUTLOOK

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. Read more...

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 Read more...

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. Read more...

APTN: Aboriginal Day Live

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is set to stage its annual celebration of National Aboriginal Day in Canada, and the fifth anniversary event will be shining bigger, brighter, and better than ever. Read more...

Watta!: Web Access to Tribal Actions

With a focus on Indigenous villages and issues, Taiwan Indigenous TV (TITV) is expanding the scope of citizen journalism. Since June, 2010, TITV has visited 50 Indigenous villages; hosting training sessions for more than 800 Indigenous people to reinforce the concept of its 2010 initiative: Watta!. Read more...

Blackstone: An Uncompromising Story from an Aboriginal Point of View

While Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) ushered in 2011 with a number of great new shows, perhaps the biggest buzz came from the long awaited premiere of Blackstone, a controversial drama series. Read more...

'Āha'i 'Ōlelo Ola: 30 Minutes News Magazine

'Ōiwi TV's 'Āha'i 'Ōlelo Ola, the Hawaiian language television news show, is transitioning to a new 30 minute news magazine format. Read more...

Hakka Starts Every Year with Ba-Yin

Ba-yin is the essence of Hakka people’s music culture, and plays an indispensable role in funerals, weddings, birthday ceremonies, temple fairs, and other celebrations. Read more...

Iolo Williams Joins the 21st Century American Indians

What is life like for American Indians in the early 21st century? Do they maintain many of their traditions? How do they integrate with today’s fast-moving consumer society? Read more...

Rating Matters, But What Do Audience Really Think?

Ratings do matter. But what do audiences really think? Viewer opinions and questions are the catalysts behind NITV's new multi-platform program, Gathering. Read more...

TIGA TALK!: Another Series of APTN's Highly Acclaimed Children Program

APTN's successful children program Tiga Talk! returns with an interactive website and a new mobile application to teach aboriginal languages through a multi-platform series. Read more...

Nā'ālehu Anthony Documents Three Decades of Papa Mau's Legacy

Three years in the making, Na'alehu Anthony recounts the fundamental role that Master Navigator Mau Piailug played in reinvigorating the dying art of traditional voyaging. Read more...

FEATURE STORY

Stepping Up to 2011: A Transition for TITV and WITBN
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...
An Early Christmas Present for BBC ALBA
It has been a long wait for partners MG ALBA and BBC. On Sept. 19, 2008, when BBC ALBA was launched on satellite to 40 percent of homes in Scotland...
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...
A TG4 Campaign: Vóta 2011
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...
Full Step to Digitalization
TITV debuted its first internal step to digitalization in 2008 from its Taitung news bureau. One of the important reasons for choosing Taitung was because one-third of the population in Taitung are Indigenous people...
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...

WITBN Update

August 9, 2012: WITBN’s Dialogue with the World
On August 9, 2012, WITBN was invited to attend the United Nations’ commemoration of the the International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People organized by Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. WITBN Chairman Nils Johan Heatta delivered WITBN’s statement to the world. Video through UN webcast.
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
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.

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