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First Nations Radio broadcasts twenty-four hours a day locally and nationally and has dedicated Aboriginal programs that provide news and information for programming and content about Aboriginal community cultural and social issues through a focus on Aboriginal education, Aboriginal training and employment, Aboriginal community services ...
The creation of a dedicated northern transponder (a satellite channel committed exclusively to northern programming). On March 10, 1983, the Northern Native Broadcast Access Program (NNBAP) was announced, which provided $33.1 million over four years to thirteen northern aboriginal organizations to produce radio and/or television programming.
Soon after the program's creation, problems were recognized in the planned program distribution via satellite. In January 1987, Canadian aboriginal and Northern broadcasters met in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to form a non-profit consortium to establish a Pan-Northern television distribution service. In 1988, the Canadian government gave ...
Uvagut TV (translates to Our TV) is a Canadian specialty television channel owned by Nunavut Independent Television Network. It is Canada's first television channel devoted exclusively to Inuktitut language programming, and only the second service devoted to indigenous communities in Canada after the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network .
First Nations Broadcasting currently airs four open narrowcast stations. They are First Nations TV (stylised as FiRST NATiONS TV), Darwin TV, First Nations Tourism TV (stylised as FiRST NATiONS TOURiSM TV) and Business TV. [4] [5] Business TV replaced Education TV around 2023, while TVNT went off-air around the same time. [2] [4]
The program, however, ended with the provincial government's disbanding of the DNS in 1982. In the late 1970s, CBC Radio also began broadcasting a northern program, Keewatin Radio. The program contained some relevant northern content and was aided by better reception due to the installation of the low-power FM relay transmitters in the north.
Northern Native Broadcasting is a non-profit Indigenous communications company in British Columbia which owns and operates radio stations whose music and primary content is intended to be of interest to Indigenous peoples in Canada.
NITV News Update is the network's national ten minute news program, broadcast nightly and covering stories relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers. It is the only nightly television news service that covers entirely Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories from across the country. Started in February 2008, the program ...