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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 92, 12 December 2005
MĀORI SPORTS AWARDS HONOURS EQUINE CHAMPIONS
A legendary rodeo champion and a top racehorse trainer will be inducted into the Māori Sports Hall of Fame at the 2005 NATIONAL MĀORI SPORTS AWARDS ceremony in Auckland this Saturday December 17. The home of Māori sport, Māori Television is the official broadcaster of the prestigious black-tie event on Sunday December 18 from 5.30 PM to 7.00 PM. Rodeo veteran Mervyn Church from Rotorua and horseman Eric Ropiha of Woodville will join an illustrious list of Māori athletes and administrators who have been inducted into the Māori Sports Hall of Fame. They include Joseph Warbrick, Ruia Morrison-Davy, Opai Asher, Millie Khan, George Nepia, Tori Reid, Albie Pryor and Margaret Hiha. Awarded an ONZM for services to rodeo, Mervyn Church is the head of a renowned family that has dominated the sport for more than a decade. Prominent horse trainer Eric Ropiha, who is also the recipient of an ONZM, has produced a host of top-class gallopers over more than three decades as well as excelling in the sport of equestrian. Former Silver Fern Jenny-May Coffin and the New Zealand Warriors’ Wairangi Koopu from sports show CODE will front Māori Television’s broadcast while movie star Temuera Morrison and media personality Stacey Daniels will host the ceremony at the Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre. Te Tohu Taakaro ō Aotearoa Trust will present a range of awards including administrator, coach, umpire/referee, team, disabled sportsperson, sports media, junior and senior sportsman and sportswoman and world champions as well as thousands of dollars worth of sports scholarships. Champion golfer Michael Campbell, All Black Piri Weepu and rugby league sensation Benji Marshall are finalists for senior Maori sportsman of the year while the senior female finalists include squash player Shelley Kitchen, surfer Lisa Hurunui and tennis player Leanne Baker. Campbell will also receive a Māori World Champion award on the night along with wood-chopper Jason Wynyard, wool-handlers Joanne Kumeroa and Christina Rimene, powerlifter Rangimaria Brightwater-Wharf and 12-year-old world BMX champion Trent Woodcock. A highlight on the Māori sporting calendar, catch the 2005 NATIONAL MĀORI SPORTS AWARDS on Māori Television on Sunday December 18 from 5.30 PM to 7.30 PM.
WIN YOURSELF A MĀORI TELEVISION SUMMER PACK! Watch Māori Television’s coverage of the 2005 Māori Sports Awards this Sunday December 18 at 5.30 PM and go in the draw to win a Māori Television Mean Māori Mean pack! Your summer sports pack also includes a Māori Television cap and languard to keep cool this summer. To enter, simply watch the awards ceremony and email us at panui@maoritelevision.com with your answers and full contact details (including postal address) to the questions below:
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Celebrated chef and one of Māori Television’s favourite characters, Pete Peeti, is once again hitting every nook and cranny of New Zealand’s bush, lakes, rivers and oceans for more delectable kai with a new series premiere of KAI TIME ON THE ROAD. 
More tales of love from te ao Māori, starring Taungaroa Emile and Stacey Daniels. Everybody loves Charlie, the sweet, shy young Rasta. He’s in love with Erena, but can he ever tell her? He’s keeping a secret from his sister who has love troubles of her own. And he’s trying to help his father who discovers it’s never too late for love.
The ultimate Māori travelling road show series is back in the saddle with 13 brand new stories of inspirational and talented Māori on tour. In episode one, the crew goes behind-the-scenes with poet and folk jazz musician, Hinemoana Baker, as she tours the North Island. Hinemoana’s tour becomes an emotional journey as she heads to her flood-devastated hometown of Whakatāne for an emotional reunion with her father. Get on the road with Māori Television this week! 
Kicking off a season of five summer specials, Māori Television’s flagship news programme this week features presenter Wena Harawira with Hawke’s Bay Muslim leader Te Amorangi Whaanga. For a fifth of the world’s population, Islam is both a religion and a way of life. Census figures show that the number of Māori following the Muslim faith has jumped from 100 in 1990 to more than 800 today. A must-see special. 
One of Te Arawa’s favourite sons – Temuera Morrison – adds his tūturu Māori style to Hollywood glitz as he cavorts with A-list celebrities. With guests including fashion designer Karen Walker, actors Cliff Curtis and Martin Henderson, Zed’s Nathan King, actress Keisha Castle-Hughes, director Lee Tamahori, movie star (and winemaker) Sam Neill, hip hop guru King Kapisi – AND MORE – this series offers Māori Television viewers a uniquely Māori perspective of Hollywood over six weeks. 
This Australian documentary explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women. Made by acclaimed Australian photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt, it contrasts the ‘first encounter’ between colonizers and white women with the attempts of modern, urban Aboriginal women to reverse their fortunes. 
An Academy Award-winning film from Eastern Europe about one man’s discovery of the importance of love by caring for a child. Directed and co-produced by Jan Sverak from the Czech Republic, the film won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997. 
