New NITV launches
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The National Indigenous Television network had a soft-launch on Friday, its first day of broadcasting.
The new television channel is broadcasting via the Imparja TV channel based in Alice Springs. NITV has around 20 staff in the Northern territory and New South Wales.
Set to provide 24-hour programming that reflects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture it will also air via Foxtel and Optus later this year.
NITV Board Member Rachel Perkins, “For all those young or older Indigenous people, there’ll be an opportunity to make content, a lot of it, for the first time.”
According to its website:
The NITV service was soft launched in NAIDOC Week on Friday the 13th of July 2007 in Sydney by Senator Helen Coonan, commencing transmission on Imparja Television’s second channel to Northern and Central Australia. The service will be available on Subscription TV providers Austar and Foxtel later in the year.
NITV will initially commence transmission in July 2007, via Imparja Television’s Second Channel. The service will be receivable by an estimated audience of around 220,000 people. Of this total figure, there are currently 36,000 homes around Australia (about 140,000 people) with Aurora independent Direct To Home satellite facilities who can receive the signal.