10 September 2008 - A new global alliance aims to unify television broadcasters worldwide to retain and grow indigenous languages and cultures. > more
18 June 2008 - A global network of indigenous television broadcasters will convene its first interim council meeting in Ireland in August. > more
28 March - A pioneer of Māori television and film, the late Barry Barclay, was honoured at the closing ceremony of the first ever World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference in Auckland tonight (March 28). > more
22 March - Indigenous broadcasters representing Australia, Canada, China, England, Fiji, Hawaii, India, Ireland, Mozambique, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand and the USA will gather for the first major conference of its kind in Auckland this week. > more
11 March - A global network of indigenous television broadcasters will be launched at the World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference – WITBC ’08 – to be hosted by Māori Television in Auckland from March 26-28. > more
9 March - New Zealand’s first ever 100 per cent Māori language television channel will be called ‘Te Reo’ – which literally means ‘the language’. > more
5 March - New Zealand tertiary students are being offered a rare opportunity to meet with their peers, industry leaders and potential employers including some of the most influential people in indigenous television broadcasting from throughout the world. > more
27 February - Māori Television’s new reo Māori channel will be officially launched at a dawn ceremony at 5.00 AM on Friday March 28 before its first, live-to-air broadcast from the gala dinner of the World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference in Auckland later that night. > more
21 February - Kordia™, one of the region’s leading providers of customised broadcast and telecommunications networks, network services and converged solutions, has been announced as a major partner of the World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference to be hosted by Māori Television at the end of next month (March). > more
12 February -The first Head of Service of BBC Scotland’s new Gaelic Digital Service joins an international line-up of featured guest speakers at the inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference – WITBC ’08 – to be hosted by Māori Television in Auckland, New Zealand, next month (March). > more
27 December - New Zealand’s national indigenous broadcaster, Māori Television, is launching a Lifetime Achievement Award for Indigenous Television Broadcasting – Te Rerenga Tahi. > more
21 November - An internationally recognised expert in indigenous rights law and one of New Zealand's leading specialists in Māori issues – Chief Judge Joe Williams – will be the keynote speaker at the first ever World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference to be held in Auckland in March 2008. > more
25 October - Internationally renowned speakers who are industry experts in the fields of broadcasting, media and indigenous languages will play a leading role in the inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference to be held in Auckland in March 2008. > more
09 August - A member of the original advisory board that developed the concept for Canada’s first Aboriginal television network will be a featured guest speaker at the inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference to be held in New Zealand in March next year. > more
10 July 2007- The head of Australia’s first national Indigenous television service will be among the featured guest speakers at next year’s inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference to be hosted by Māori Television in Auckland, New Zealand. > more
3 June 2007 - The leader of Welsh-language channel S4C will be a featured guest speaker at the inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference to be hosted by Māori Television in Auckland early next year. > more
20 April 2007 - New Zealand’s national indigenous broadcaster, Māori Television, will host an inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference in Auckland in March 2008. > more