{"id":84,"date":"2005-07-03T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/07\/03\/aboriginal-tv\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:12:11","slug":"aboriginal-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/07\/03\/aboriginal-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Aboriginal tv"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> While I usually don’t turn on the radio first thing, I did reach for my bedside clock-radio-alarm thingy this morning at 9, thinking I’d catch the news. I had no idea what station was tuned in (the thingy is usually set to “sounds,” in case I need it for wake-up purposes — oceans, crickets, all that annoying new age stuff: but those sounds sure beat being woken to buzzers or bells or beeps), and after I turned up the volume, I found NPR. Sports sports sports<\/em> (something about tennis, I think), followed by something about Iraq and something about Sandra Day O’Connor<\/em>. At 9:06 it was pretty much over. So I turned the dial and caught a few more minutes of (ahem, I have to say this:) the highly superior CBC news. Why superior? Well, CBC actually realises that there’s a world beyond the US navel, for one thing. There’s more<\/em> news, for another. It’s international, it’s regional, it’s national, and sports does not rank first or second place<\/em>. In fact, sports came last, at about 9:10.<\/p>\n

Before the final brief-ish sports item, I heard this interesting bit: Taiwan’s aborigines get their own tv channel<\/a>. I didn’t even know there were aboriginal groups in Taiwan, but I had recently learned about aboriginal tv networks (even though I don’t get tv…):<\/p>\n

The 12 aboriginal tribes in Taiwan, who trace their roots back 6,000 years, have their own traditions and languages, although the new station will mainly broadcast in Mandarin Chinese.<\/em> [BBC cont’d.<\/a>…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Taipei Times<\/a> adds:<\/p>\n

“This channel is the first of its kind in Taiwan and in the whole of Asia. It represents Taiwan’s 12 Aboriginal groups and a place that allows the voices of more than 800 Aboriginal tribes be heard,” [President Shui-bian] Chen wrote in his weekly e-newsletter.<\/em> [More…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I find this sort of development interesting, even exciting. Only lately did I learn that Canada has had an Aboriginal Peoples Television Network<\/a> since September 1999<\/a> — in fact, the APTN is the first of its kind<\/a> in the world (on a national level).<\/p>\n

I’d love to get this kind of programming streamed over the internet (flawlessly, cross-platform, without hiccups, just like tv, but with real click-it-or-pass-on-it choice vs. cable subscription menus). It really is a big wide world out there, and there’s a lot more going on than sports sports sports tennis sports supremecourt bush sports stars greenspan sports movies boxoffice sports senate sports<\/em>… Well, at least CBC tells<\/em> me about these alternatives — on the main news, to boot, not on some program aimed at the obscure.<\/p>\n

PS: check out the links on APTN’s What’s New<\/a> page, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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