A new global alliance aims to unify television broadcasters worldwide to retain and grow indigenous languages and cultures. The World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (WITBN) was established as a key outcome of the inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference (WITBC ’08) held in Aotearoa New Zealand, and hosted by Māori Television in March 2008. The next Council meeting will be hosted by SABC in South Africa early next year followed by APTN in Canada in September 2009. Taiwan’s indigenous broadcaster, TITV – a member of Taiwan’s public broadcasting group, PTS – will host the next conference in 2010.

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Representatives from TG4 (Ireland); Māori Television (Aotearoa New Zealand); NITV (Australia); TITV / PTS (Taiwan); BBC Alba (Scotland); NRK Sami Radio and Television (Norway); S4C (Wales) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association who attended the inaugural meeting of the WITBN Council in Ireland in August 2008.