It's been officially announced today that NITV will soon be available free to air to for all to see.
From the 12th of December at 12 noon, NITV can be seen on SBS 4 or digital channel 34.
The announcement was made today to a global meeting of Indigenous television broadcasters.
NITV headquarters in Sydney hosted Indigenous TV leaders from around the world.
CEOs from Indigenous television meet regularly to network about how best to achieve shared goals.
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The umbrella organisation is known as the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network or WITBN and aiming to preserve and maintain our own lands, languages and cultures.
WITBN Chair and CEO NRK Norway Nils Johan Heatta spoke at the announcement.
“It has the impact for the indigenous that they understand and they know that the indigenous land, culture and identity is as much worth as the other cultures, the white mans cultures and so on it,” he said.
There are 13 WITBN members including NITV, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in Canada, OIWI in Hawaii, NRK the Saami service in Norway, Taiwan, Indigenous TV, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and South Africa all telling their own stories themselves.
NITV will kick off its free to air broadcast on SBS4 at 12 noon on the 12th of the 12th, 2012 from the heart of Australia at Uluru.
