March 19, 2024

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Nunavut television network launches Inuit-language channel

Inuit Canadians will quickly have 24/7 access to Inuktitut-language tv programming.  

The Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV) is launching a new channel — Uvagut TV — starting initial detail on Monday, at 12:01 a.m.

It will be accessible nationally to Shaw Direct clients, and to Arctic Co-ops cable subscribers in Nunavut and the Northwest territories, in accordance to a news release saying the launch. It will also stream on-line through the website uvagut.tv set. 

The new channel’s Inuktitut title interprets to “Our Television” in English — a term made use of to encompass all Inuit languages, which includes Inuktitut, which is spoken in western and central Nunavut.

Canada is property to many other Inuit regions aside from Nunavut, which includes the Inuvialuit area of the Northwest Territories, Nunavik in northern Quebec, and Nunatsiavut in Labrador.

Uvagut Television is contacting alone the initial language-concentrated Indigenous tv channel in the nation. Content material will be principally in Inuit languages, with English subtitles, says the network’s executive director, Lucy Tulugarjuk. 

“For me, Uvagut Television is a desire arrive true — to see Inuit tradition and to listen to our language full time on Television,” Tulugarjuk explained in the information launch.

“As our elders go absent, we are combating in opposition to time to hold Inuit tradition and language alive for our youngsters and grandchildren. Television in Inuktut all working day each individual working day is a strong way to hold a living language for potential generations.”

Circus performers from the group Artcirq. Musical and executing arts tv from Inuit regions all over Canada will play on Uvagut Television. (CBC | High Arctic Haulers)

Tulugarjuk explained the community will also have programming in Inuinnaqtun, an Inuktut dialect spoken in western Nunavut, and Inuvialuktun, which is spoken by Inuit in the Northwest Territories. 

Both of individuals languages are considered dying languages, and the corporations from individuals regions that build cultural programming for tv, like the Inuvialuit Communications Culture, generally build articles in English as nicely. 

Tulugarjuk says the community is hoping in the potential to have articles from Alaska and Greenland. 

Day by day Inuktut Television for kids 

Uvagut Television will give five hrs of Inuit-language children’s plans each day, air shows from the Igloolik-based circus and executing arts group Artcirq, and air award-winning films like Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, the launch explained. 

The Nunavut Independent Television Network will build plans through partnerships with other Inuit online video manufacturing organizations, this kind of as the youth-concentrated Taqqut Productions, the on-line arts and tradition media group IsumaTV, and the long-standing Inuit Broadcasting Company (IBC), established in 1981, which presently runs the greater part of its articles on the Aborigional Peoples Television Network (APTN). 

NITV says it is registered with the CRTC as a discretionary assistance, meaning it is exempted from needing the sort of license a larger sized broadcaster would require, mainly because of its tiny subscriber base. 

In July, on Nunavut Working day, yet another broadcaster announced its own designs to launch an Inuit-language channel called Inuit Television, but that project does not have approval yet through the CRTC and is still in the is effective. 

The Inuit Television Network does have funding from Nunavut Tunngavik Included — the firm that represents Inuit in Nunavut — to pursue creation of that tv channel.

Uvagut Television is individual, and is not in partnership with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. 

Dying languages, archived articles shared

NITV has been broadcasting plans on local community cable in Nunavut because 2010 and it is effective carefully with streaming company IsumaTV, which commenced in 2008. NITV says that the only external funding it accessed for the new channel was a $ninety,000-grant from a COVID-19 aid fund for Indigenous tv. 

“In the absence of external funding, all our system suppliers have agreed to defer licensing charges to get the channel on the air,” the community explained in an e-mail. 

The Inuit Broadcasting Company will share 6 hrs of its own articles with NITV each day.

“IBC is inclined to perform with anyone to carry our priceless programming to the general public,” the broadcaster explained in a information launch on Friday. “Elders have been waiting around for above 20 years for this to take place.” 

The Inuit Broadcasting Company setting up in Iqaluit. IBC will have 6 hrs of articles each day on Uvagut Television. (Inuit Broadcasting Company/Facebook)

IBC articles includes archived online video from the creation of Nunavut and its Inuit governments, cooking shows about classic meals, concert events and performances by Inuit-language musicians, and retellings of Inuit tales and legends. 

“We have collected and preserved this treasure, and it demands to breathe out into Inuit homes and we are happy that some of the articles will be seen on this new station along with new and innovative programming IBC is setting up now,” IBC explained in the launch. 

NITV says it will also use the channel to air political articles, like are living environmental hearings by the Nunavut Influence Assessment Board for a proposed enlargement at the Mary River mine. Those two-7 days hearings commence on Jan. twenty five.  

Nunavut Independent Television Network is performing to make the channel accessible on other satellite and cable units, it explained in the launch.