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Tuning in to Māori TelevisionViewers can tune in to Māori Television in five ways: Via the UHF frequencyTo 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. As a SKY Digital subscriberSKY 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. As a SKY UHF subscriberSKY UHF subscribers will find Māori Television on button 6 of their SKY remotes. Via Saturn TV For More InformationCheck our website www.maoritelevision.com or for guidance on how to tune-in call 0800 MA TATOU ( 0800 62 82868 )
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Issue 58, 18 April 2005
ONE SMALL DISCOVERY LEADS TO ONE MAJOR REUNION ON MĀORI TELEVISION Officially selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2000, an extraordinary chain of events is due to unfold on Māori Television, beginning with the appearance of a 1950s film reel and ending with the return of a long lost brother to his Navajo roots. RETURN OF THE NAVAJO BOY makes its debut on Māori Television this Tuesday April 19 at 8.30 PM and weaves together a unique and astonishing story of the threads that interweave the fabric of a Navajo family in Monument Valley, Utah. For more than six decades, the Cly family has existed in the pictures of history with numerous family members having lent their authentic yet largely anonymous faces to countless postcards, photographs, films and Hollywood Western films shot in the valley. But – it is the sudden appearance of a rarely-seen vintage film that ultimately affects the entire family’s lives the most. In 1997, a white man identifying himself as Bill Kennedy from Chicago emerges in the valley with a silent film called Navajo Boy that he says his late father produced in the 1950s. Seeking to understand his father’s work on the Navajo Reservation, Kennedy returns the film to the family in it. When the Cly family matriarch – Elsie Mae Cly Begay – watches the film, she is incredulous to discover herself as a young girl in the film and instantly recognises various other family members. These include her infant brother – John Wayne Cly – who was adopted by white missionaries in the 1950s and never heard from again. The story makes its way to the pages of a New Mexico newspaper, where the real John Wayne Cly spies the article and contacts the Clys, in the hopes that they are his real family. RETURN OF THE NAVAJO BOY is the emotional and incredible true story that sets in motion John Wayne Cly’s unforgettable return to his blood brothers and sisters in an emotional reunion in Monument Valley. Essential and moving viewing, RETURN OF THE NAVAJO BOY screens on Māori Television on Tuesday April 19 at 8.30 PM. |
In 1988, history was made in Māori film and television as Te Manukau Trust was established and a series of five original half-hour dramas were born to screen on TVNZ. The series – E TIPU E REA – represented the biggest commitment ever made to Māori drama on mainstream television in New Zealand at the time. 
In this endearingly amateur documentary, Ikpeng directors Kumare Txicao, Karane Txicao and Natuyu Yuwipo Txicao follow children from a village in the Mato Grosso region, Brazil, as they gleefully explain their ways of life to an unknown youthful audience in the form of a video letter. 
Nau mai, haere mai to Māori Television’s studios at 9-15 Davis Crescent, Newmarket for the return of live music show COAST, presented by Brent Mio and Kara Rickard. While Taaz is out gathering the freshest goods from the music world, the studio is pumping with the sounds of Auckland’s premier punk pop group Goodnight Nurse, Christchurch’s guitar-based outfit Heavy Jones Trio and emerging experimental / hip hop act The Others. What you waiting for? 
This week’s Sunday Feature shares with viewers the start of winter in downtown Toronto as eight-year-old Maggie Dolan (played by Sarah Campbell) is about to spend her first Christmas alone. With her mother dead and her Aunt Bea too ill to take care of her, the wee tot’s only hope of salvation from a foster home is to find the father she never knew. 
