New Indigenous TV station turns on (fwd)

[Greg Dickson]

Yes, there is more to this story.  The creation of NITV also meant the  
scrapping of ICTV, a channel with less distribution but more language  
content and more content produced by bush communities.  Read this  
blogpost for more info:

http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/2007/07/ 
the_closure_of_the_remote_area_1.html

By the way, that blog is an excellent read, especially for some  
excellent insights into what the Australian Federal Government is doing  
to Aboriginal communities in the NT with their 'intervention'.

Cheers from an 'intervened' community...


Greg Dickson
Linguist
Ngukurr Language Centre
Email: greg.dickson at kathlangcentre.org.au


On 18/08/2007, at 2:18 AM, phil cash cash wrote:

New Indigenous TV station turns on

Posted Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:02am AEST
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/13/1977687.htm

Australia's first 24-hour Indigenous television service was switched on  
in
Sydney today.

Aboriginal leaders, actors, singers, and sports stars attended the  
launch by
the Federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan.

The Government-funded National Indigenous TV (NITV) will broadcast to  
more
than 200,000 people across Northern Australia, Queensland, and South
Australia on the Optus Aurora satellite and Imparja's second satellite
channel.

But remote Aboriginal communities say they are worried they could be
excluded from the new channel.

The general manager of Warlpiri media in Yuendumu Northern Territory,  
Rita
Catoni, says many cultural videos might not be picked up by NITV because
they are not up to industry standard.

"What's not going to be around is ... a platform for a whole lot of  
people
in remote communities to view their own grassroots content and to see
people in other remote communities," she said.

"It's going to be a very different type of content on television, which  
is a
shame really, because they're not mutually exclusive, they could have
coexisted."