Program Exchange SchemeIn 2009, WITBN launched a Program Exchange Scheme that Ireland’s TG4 later helped develop. The exchange pools together programming content and offers all contributing members access to quality indigenous broadcasts. It represents an innovative and cost effective way of securing new and attractive programming content at minimal cost. |
Round II: Māori Television
1. Native Affairs
Duration: 50 - 55 minutes / News & Current Affairs Program Educational, informed and serious current affairs. Julian Wilcox and the team are back for 2010, with regional and national stories from a Māori perspective as well as international indigenous news.
2. Homai te Pakipaki (Give A Clap)
HOMAI TE PAKIPAKI is a live competition, based on audience text votes. Singers perform every week for the chance to win $1000, and heat winners carry on to the semi-finals. If they come through that, then it’s all on, and they’ll get to sing their hearts out in the grand final, with the chance to win $10,000.
3. Iti Pounamu
Iti Pounamu goes on in this popular program of New Zealand’s short stories and their producers. Each week Ainsley Gardiner and Tearepa Kahi host this show of short stories, followed by their assessments and interviews with the producers and experts of the industry. 3. Ko Tawa Duration: 30 minutes X 2 KO TAWA is a six-part historical series that tells the stories behind a selection of taonga collected by Captain Gilbert Mair (1843–1923) throughout his lifetime, from communities around the North Island.