Maori TV to set up a 100% Te Reo digital channel (fwd)

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Maori TV to set up a 100% Te Reo digital channel

Posted at 4:17pm on 26 Jul 2007
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200707261617/maori_tv_to_set_up_a_100_te_reo_digital_channel

Maori Television has announced it is setting up a 100% Te Reo digital
channel.

The second channel will transmit via the Freeview digital platform and
broadcast each day during the prime time hours of 7.30pm to 10.30pm.

It will be free of advertising.

Maori Television chief executive Jim Mather says the channel will meet the
needs of older and more fluent Maori speakers and will ensure the native
language survives.

The channel is expected to be launched at the beginning of next year.

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