Māori Television to Celebrate First Christmas

In celebration of the channel’s first year of broadcast and first Christmas, Māori Television is setting up to showcase the station’s brightest stars on a Christmas special – TE HARINUI – A MĀORI TELEVISION CHRISTMAS – screening on Māori Television Christmas Day, December 25 at 7.30 PM.

Join Māori Television to celebrate our first festive season with live music and special guests from Māori Television’s most popular series’.

Presented by Māori Television presenter Julian Wilcox, the variety special sweeps over the Christmas festivities with waiata and interviews with the T-SISTAZ ( Te Waipounamu Teremoana and Te Manawaroa Teinakore), the TAKATAAPUI team (Tanya Simon, Taurewa Biddle and Ramon Te Wake), L.I.PS. presenter Te Awanui Reeder, PĒPI presenter Pirihira Hollings, HĀKINA AHUREA front person Hine Castle, the MIND YOUR MŌHIO crew (Kingi Biddle and Dean Umu), the songbirds of NGĀ PĀTITI MĀOTA O TE KAINGA (Ben Tawhiti and Lois McIvor), the irrepressible Mika of MIKA LIVE and MĀORIOKE hosts, Ruia Aperahama and Brannigan Kaa and MĀORIOKE 2004 winner Tamehana Campbell. Studio guests’ appearances will be spliced with highlights and footage from their programmes to wrap up the year.

But there’s more!

Māori Television viewers are in for jolly numbers from the show band with Julian and Niwa at the mic, a guest appearance from outstanding Māori songstress Whirimako Black, the sweet harmonies of Māori Television’s very own divas ‘The Santarettes’ and a special stop-in from a secret Māori Santa Claus!

TE HARINUI – A MĀORI TELEVISION CHRISTMAS producer Erina Tamepo says the special’s theme is to mark 10 months of achievements for the channel since its launch on March 28 2004. “This hour and a half long special is about celebrating the landmark achievements the channel has reached in its first year of broadcast and to showcase some of the outstanding Māori talent who have featured on Māori Television. Kua tae mai te wā Kirihimete – me whakahirahira tātou! It’s Christmas time, so let’s celebrate!”

Join Māori Television for an evening of kōrero, waiata and a whole lot of fun on TE HARINUI – A MĀORI TELEVSION CHRISTMAS, Christmas Day December 25 at 7.30 PM.

PROGRAMMES COMING UP:

TE WHAEA – MOTHER OF CHANGE – Thursday December 23 at 8.30 PM

In the heart of a New Zealand maximum security prison, corridors reverberate with the chanting of men's voices. A small woman in red walks among the tattooed inmates, uttering a spine-tingling cry. The woman is the late Ana Tia – subject of this incredible documentary showing her tireless work for dispossessed Māori.

L.I.P.S (LOCKED INTO PACIFIC SOUND) Christmas Special : Friday December 24 at 6.00 PM

 
Join L.I.P.S presenter Te Awanui Reeder at the beach for a special screening of the weekly Māori and Pacific Island musical showcase.
Featuring clips from your favourite Kiwi artists, including Trinity Roots, Katchafire, Nesian Mystik and more.

COAST Christmas Special : Friday December 24 at 9.00 PM

Wrapping up the year for Māori Television’s Friday night live music show, hosts Brent Mio, Shavaughan Ruakere and Sheeq welcome special guests Ardijah, The Deceptikonz, Batacuda Sound System, Whiz Kids, Definite & Bling, DJ Exile and The Situations to the studio for the last jam of the year.

PĒPI : Meningitis Special – Tuesday December 28 at 8.00 PM

It’s heartache and anguish for new teen parents Kataraina Davis and Jerome Cowley as they are forced to camp out in Auckland’s Starship Hospital when their two-week old baby Psalm contracts meningitis. An absolutely must-see episode of Māori Television’s parenting series following four Māori couples in their first year of parenthood.

FESTIVE SOUNDS OF AFRICA – Wednesday December 29 at 10.00n PM

Get moving to the amazing sounds of Africa during these two one-off music specials paying tribute to the unique styles and rhythms borne of a wild continent with all the odds stacked against it!

Getting to Air

Our daily schedule is:

Tuning in to Māori Television

Viewers can tune in to Māori Television in five ways:

To receive Māori Television via the UHF frequency, viewers need to have a UHF aerial and be within the coverage area.

Via Satellite

If viewers are not within our UHF coverage area, they can access Māori Television via satellite by purchasing a satellite dish and receiver from their local television aerial installation service.

SKY Digital subscribers will find Māori Television on Channel 33 of their SKY remotes. They can tune in to Channel 33 now to catch highlights of programmes on Māori Television.

SKY UHF subscribers will find Māori Television on button 6 of their SKY remotes.

Via Saturn TV
If you receive Saturn TV, you can tune into Māori Television through channel button 33. Saturn Customers please: leave your decoders switched on to be able to receive this channel.

For More Information

Check our website www.maoritelevision.com or for guidance on how to tune-in call 0800 MA TATOU ( 0800 62 82868 )

Issue 43, 20 - 23 December 2004

1. Māori Television to Celebrate First Christmas
2. Programmes Coming Up
3. Getting To Air
4. Tuning in to Māori Television
5. More Information

CHRISTMAS DAY MOVIE : JESUS

The world’s most watched movie – JESUS – will screen on Māori Television on Christmas Day, Saturday December 25 at 9.00 PM, 25 years after its theatrical release. The two hour movie has been translated into more than 800 languages and is perhaps the most influential movie in motion picture history. With a viewership in excess of five billion people globally, JESUS is often shown in remote, third world locales using a makeshift screen and portable projector.

In 1950, Bill Bright the visionary behind the project and co-founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, dreamed of creating an artistically excellent, biblically accurate film about the life of Jesus. A team of 500 scholars and leaders from secular and Christian organisations eventually joined the project and debuted the feature film JESUS in American theatres.

Every scene in JESUS was filmed on site in Israel, as close as possible to the historically accurate location. In many cases, this involved the dismantling of 20th century articles such as TV aerials, telegraph poles and wires from above buildings.

Once these were removed, the present-day areas looked nearly exactly the same as those seen by Jesus some 2000 years ago.

The film penetrates the most remote, dangerous places on earth through a massive logistical operation involving hundreds of staff and volunteers who tote generators, makeshift screens and portable projectors to film showings.

Don’t miss the debut of the most watched film in history with JESUS, screening on the on Māori Television, Christmas Day, December 25 at 9.00 PM.

TORU - COMING SOON TO MĀORI TELEVISION

Do you and your partner love a good old waiata with your mokopuna? Do you and your two mates love nothing better than a blat on the gat? What about a string duo with an accompanying flute? The larger-than-life stars the T-Sistaz have been joined by their baby sister for a brand new television show concept – TORU – coming to Māori Television in 2005.

The TORU production team is calling for entries for groups of three NOW for the series. To enter, visit www.maoritelevision.com and fill in the entry form. The forms will need to be completed and signed by a consenting adult if entrants are under 18 years of age. Then, wannabes will need to return to TORU, PO Box 8796, Symonds Street, Auckland with an accompanying photo of the group (with names included on back) and a VHS, MINI DV or DV CAM tape of a three-minute performance.

Entries close January 28 2005.