Indigenous Television Hits Sydney

Apparently as of today, National Indigenous TV (NITV) will be broadcast in the Sydney Metropolitan area on digital free-to-air TV on channel 40.

I haven’t had a chance to see NITV yet, as last time I was in the Territory was prior to its launch. This was back when the only indigenous content on Australian TV was restricted to Imparja, and even then it was only when they had spare air-time between Who Wants to be a Millionaire and other such gems of modern entertainment.

I look forward to being able to see indigenous Australian content more often. Who knows, maybe in a few years, remote communities will be making short films and documentaries that will screen across the country. Perhaps then the public’s opinion of indigenous Australia will be based on reality.

One Response to “ Indigenous Television Hits Sydney ”

Comments:

Wamut says:
October 28th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

Many remote communities used to broadcast whatever they wanted locally through BRACS. This led to the establishment of ICTV which broadcast heaps of community-produced, Aboriginal language programs through much of remote Australia. Your hope of what may happen in a few years actually used to be a reality, but the establishment of NITV coincided with ICTV’s demise.

I’ll be interested to hear what you reckon of NITV. imho, there’s very little in there of relevance to remote Australia and/or Indigenous language speakers.

I don’t know why the govt doesn’t fund both ICTV anymore.