Hari huritau ki a koe: Te Māngai Pāho celebrates 25 years
Te Māngai Pāho celebrates 25 years as the Māori broadcasting sector funder: enabling funding for iwi radio stations and Māori television.
“Me huri whakamuri,
kia titiro whakamua. Look to the past, to see our future.
Today is an opportunity to acknowledge the work of staff,
advocates and supporters who have maintained an ongoing
commitment to transmitting our language for all New
Zealanders,” says Larry Parr, Kaihautū of Te Māngai
Pāho.
“At the same time, we acknowledge the future
of Māori broadcasting is changing. As technology continues
to improve and expand, so too are the ways we connect to our
whānau, hapū and iwi all over the world.
“We look
forward to working with our partners to harness these new
technologies and encourage Māori language content for
broadcast and distribution on a variety of platforms, while
promoting te reo Māori as a living language,” Mr Parr
says.
“We acknowledge the work done by successive
governments, and the additional support in Budget 2019 to
ensure basic te reo is spoken by a million people in
Aotearoa by 2040.
“Today we stand alongside the
efforts of all those in Māori Broadcasting, that speak, and
those that encourage others to learn te Reo Māori. Tihei
mauriora!”
Te Māngai Pāho’s 25 year
commemoration video can be viewed
here.