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Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

{{Short description|Canadian television network}}

{{Primary sources|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox television channel

| name = Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

| logo = APTN Colour-300x300.svg

| logo_size = 200px

| image =

| launch_date = {{start date and age|January 21, 1992}}

| closed_date =

| picture_format = 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)

| network =

| owner = Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Inc.

| language = English, French

| country = Canada

| area = National

| headquarters = Winnipeg, Manitoba

| former_names = Television Northern Canada (1992–1999)

| replaced =

| sister_channels =

| timeshift_service =

| website = {{Official URL}}

| terr_serv_1 = Whitehorse, YT

| terr_chan_1 = CHWT-TV 10

| terr_serv_2 = Yellowknife, NT

| terr_chan_2 = CHTY-TV 11

| terr_serv_3 = Other Areas

| terr_chan_3 = See Below

}}

File:APTN building on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba.JPG

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is a group of Canadian specialty television channels based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The channels broadcast programming produced by or highlighting Indigenous peoples in Canada, including arts, cultural, documentary, entertainment, and news and current affairs programming.

Established in 1992 as Television Northern Canada (TVNC) to broadcast in Canada's northern territories, TVNC received a CRTC license as a television network in 1999—requiring that it be carried by all television providers nationwide. It relaunched as APTN on September 1, 1999. APTN was previously carried on terrestrial television, particularly in Northern Canada and the Inuit communities of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec.

As of September 2024, APTN operates two channels: the first—branded as APTN—carries programming produced in English and French, while a second channel known as APTN Languages primarily broadcasts programming produced in Indigenous languages (which is provided with subtitles in either English or French).

History

=Establishment=

File:TVNC.png

In 1980, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued the Therrien Committee Report. In that report, the committee concluded that northern Indigenous peoples had increasing interest in developing their own media services and that the government has a responsibility to ensure support in broadcasting of Indigenous cultures and languages. The committee recommended measures to enable northern native people to use broadcasting to support their languages and cultures.

The Canadian government created the Northern Broadcasting Policy, issued on March 10, 1983. It laid out principles to develop Northern native-produced programming. The policy included support for what was called the Northern Native Broadcast Access Program, a funded program to produce radio and/or television programs in First Peoples' languages to reflect their cultural perspectives.

Soon after the program's creation, problems were recognized in the planned program distribution via satellite. In January 1987, Canadian aboriginal and Northern broadcasters met in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to form a non-profit consortium to establish a Pan-Northern television distribution service. In 1988, the Canadian government gave the organizers $10 million to establish the network. The application for the new service, initially known as Television Northern Canada (TVNC), was approved by the CRTC in 1991. The network officially launched on over-the-air signals to the Canadian territories and far northern areas of the provinces on January 21, 1992.

=National expansion and re-launch=

After several years broadcasting in the territories, TVNC began lobbying the CRTC to amend their licence to allow TVNC to be broadcast nationally; they promoted the "uniqueness" and "significance" of a national Aboriginal service. On February 22, 1999, the CRTC granted TVNC a licence for a national broadcast network.

On September 1, 1999, the network also re-branded as the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). It was added to all television providers across Canada.{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/TV/APTN10thside.html|title=Dream Catcher|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|date=29 August 2009|access-date=2009-10-26}} APTN was the first national public television network for indigenous peoples.{{cite web|last=Aboriginal People's Television Network|title=About|url=http://www.aptn.ca/corporate/|access-date=2012-12-09|archive-date=2015-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210173743/http://aptn.ca/corporate/|url-status=dead}} The licensing gave APTN the same status as CBC Television, Radio-Canada and TVA. All Canadian cable and satellite television providers have been required to include it in their basic service. However, many cable companies outside the Arctic placed it above channel 60 on their systems, rendering it inaccessible to older cable-ready television sets that do not go above channel 60. The CRTC considered requiring cable companies to move APTN to a lower channel, but decided in 2005 that it would not do so.[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2005/pb2005-89.htm Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2005–89], September 9, 2005

In March 2008, APTN launched a high definition channel known as APTN HD; initially, the HD feed was a straight simulcast of APTN's Eastern cable feed, complying with the requirement that a specialty channel's HD simulcast must be 95% identical in programming and scheduling to its standard-definition feeds. In May 2017, the CRTC amended APTN's license so that APTN HD's programming would no longer necessarily have to mirror the scheduling of the SD feeds, as long as 95% of its programming had aired at some point on one of APTN's SD feeds. The network argued that this change would allow it more flexibility in scheduling programming on APTN HD to reach a broader audience.{{cite web |date=10 May 2017 |title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2017-139 |url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-139.htm |access-date=18 May 2017 |publisher=CRTC}}

In 2019, APTN launched APTN Lumi, a streaming service distributing APTN programming on the internet and streaming television devices.[https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/09/17/aptn-enters-competitive-streaming-market-with-paid-service-aptn-lumi/ "APTN enters competitive streaming market with paid service, APTN Lumi"]. CityNews, September 17, 2019.

In June 2023, as part of a CRTC license renewal, APTN proposed a restructuring of its linear services. It proposed a switch to two national feeds in high definition, with one predominantly carrying English- and French-language programming, and the other predominantly airing programming in at least 15 Indigenous languages (along with additional airings of its English and French-language news and public affairs programming). APTN stated that the new structure would allow it to significantly increase its output of Indigenous-language programming to as many as 157.5 hours per-week, and provide more airtime to language groups that were underrepresented on its existing schedule.{{Cite web |title=APTN proposes licence amendment to consolidate feeds |url=https://playbackonline.ca/2023/07/04/aptn-proposes-licence-amendment-to-consolidate-feeds/ |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=Playback}}

In May 2024, the CRTC approved the license renewal and distribution changes, which took effect September 1, 2024: APTN will operate two channels, branded as APTN and APTN Languages.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/article-aptn-to-launch-new-channel-with-programming-in-indigenous-languages/ "APTN to launch new channel with programming in Indigenous languages"]. The Globe and Mail, August 30, 2024. APTN will carry English and French-language programming (with the CRTC requiring a minimum of 20 hours per-week of French programming). Programming in Indigenous languages will be spun off to APTN Languages, which will carry at least 100 hours of Indigenous-language programming per-week in at least 15 Indigenous languages. To facilitate the new service, the CRTC also approved an increase in APTN's wholesale carriage fee from $0.35 per-subscriber to $0.38.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-15 |title=APTN to launch Indigenous-language channel in broadcast shift |url=https://cabinradio.ca/183390/news/arts/culture/aptn-to-launch-indigenous-language-channel-in-broadcast-shift/ |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=Cabin Radio |language=en-US}}

Programming

APTN primarily airs programming highlighting Indigenous peoples in Canada, including arts and cultural programs, factual programming such as documentaries and docuseries, drama and comedy series, and news and current affairs programming. The channel also occasionally broadcasts mainstream feature films; in 2002, the network experimented with adding a sweepstakes known as Bingo and a Movie during commercial breaks.{{Cite news |date=2002-11-22 |title=It's a rollercoaster ride from bingo to depression |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/its-a-rollercoaster-ride-from-bingo-to-depression/article1337100/ |access-date=2024-08-16 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}}{{Cite web |last=Dillon |first=Mark |last2= |title=APTN @ 20: How the broadcaster found its footing |url=https://playbackonline.ca/2019/06/07/aptn-20-how-the-broadcaster-found-its-footing/ |access-date=2024-08-16}}

APTN primarily broadcasts programming produced in English, French, and Indigenous languages, such as Cree and Inuktitut. All Indigenous-language programming is presented with subtitles in either English or French.

Programs which have aired on APTN include:

=Children's programming=

APTN airs children's programming, primarily as part of the APTN Kids block and branding.

Original programming

  • Anaana's Tent{{Cite web |title=APTN Kids |url=https://www.aptn.ca/kids/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005175327/https://www.aptn.ca/kids/ |archive-date=October 5, 2021 |access-date=Jan 24, 2021 |website=APTN}}
  • Anash and the Legacy of the Sun-Rock
  • Animism: The Gods' Lake{{cite web |title=Animism |url=http://aptn.ca/animism/ |work=aptn.ca}}{{cite web |title=May Schedule |url=http://www.aptn.ca/schedule/uploads/pdf/E-May2014.pdf |publisher=APTN}}
  • Artie the Ant{{cite web |title=APTN |url=http://aptn.ca/fullepisodes/artie/ |work=aptn.ca}} aka The Adventures of Artie the Ant{{cite web |author=Aboriginal Peoples Television Network |title=APTN.ca – APTN KIDS |url=http://www.aptn.ca/pages/kids/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826025523/http://www.aptn.ca/pages/kids/ |archive-date=26 August 2011 |work=aptn.ca}}
  • Bizou{{cite web |title=APTN |url=http://aptn.ca/kids/ |work=aptn.ca}}{{cite web |title=APTN |url=http://aptn.ca/fullepisodes/bizou/ |work=aptn.ca}}
  • CG Kids{{cite web |title=Aboriginal Peoples Television Network – APTN.ca – APTN Kids |url=http://www.aptn.ca/content/blogsection/16/45/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607150707/http://www.aptn.ca/content/blogsection/16/45/ |archive-date=7 June 2007 |work=aptn.ca}}
  • Chic Choc{{cite web |title=APTN |url=http://aptn.ca/kids |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112190833/http://aptn.ca/kids |archive-date=12 November 2014 |work=aptn.ca}}
  • Chums
  • Coyote's Crazy Smart Science Show
  • Doggy Day School
  • The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (both English and French dubs)
  • The Eggs
  • Fire Quest{{cite web |title=Aboriginal Peoples Television Network – APTN Kids |url=http://www.aptn.ca/content/blogsection/16/45/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060422024456/http://www.aptn.ca/content/blogsection/16/45/ |archive-date=22 April 2006 |work=aptn.ca}}
  • Fruity Tales
  • Guardians Evolution
  • Indigenous Art Adventures
  • Inuk
  • Kagagi: The Raven
  • La Crosse Goals
  • Lil Glooscap and the Legends of Turtle IslandJordan Gill, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/lil-glooscap-show-1.6445570 "Wolastoqey-language cartoon Lil Glooscap debuting this weekend"]. CBC News New Brunswick, May 7, 2022.
  • The Link
  • Little Bear
  • Louis Says
  • Missy Milly
  • Mouki{{cite web |title=APTN |url=http://aptn.ca/fullepisodes/mouki/ |work=aptn.ca}}
  • Nehiyawetan
  • The New Adventures of Lucky Luke
  • Planet Echo{{cite web |title=Planet Echo |url=http://aptn.ca/planetecho/ |work=aptn.ca}}
  • Qanurli{{cite web |title=Qanurli |url=http://aptn.ca/qanurli/ |access-date=14 January 2018}}
  • The Raccoons
  • Raven Tales{{cite web |title=APTN |url=http://aptn.ca/kids/raventales/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072641/http://aptn.ca/kids/raventales/ |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2015-09-07 |work=aptn.ca}}
  • renegadepress.com
  • Road Scholars
  • Stories of Our Elders{{Cite web |title=Stories of Our Elders |url=https://www.aptn.ca/storiesofourelders/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005175322/https://www.aptn.ca/storiesofourelders/ |archive-date=October 5, 2021 |access-date=Jan 24, 2021 |website=www.aptn.ca}}
  • Takuginai
  • Tamanevugut
  • Tiga Talk{{cite web |title=APTN |url=http://aptn.ca/fullepisodes/tigatalk/ |work=aptn.ca}}
  • Tipi Tales{{cite web |title=APTN Kids – Aboriginal Peoples Television Network – APTN.ca |url=http://www.aptn.ca/content/blogsection/16/45/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080717183836/http://www.aptn.ca/content/blogsection/16/45/ |archive-date=17 July 2008 |work=aptn.ca}}
  • That's AWSM!
  • The Nature Show
  • Total Drama: Pahkitew Island
  • Wakanheja
  • Wapos Bay
  • Warrior Up!
  • Wawatay Kids TV
  • Wumpa's World
  • Yvon of the Yukon

=Sports programming=

On March 24, 2019, APTN simulcast a Sportsnet-produced NHL game between the Montreal Canadiens and Carolina Hurricanes with commentary in Plains Cree, as part of the Rogers Hometown Hockey package. As a tie-in for the broadcast, Sportsnet also originated that week's Hometown Hockey on-location broadcast from Enoch Cree Nation 135 outside of Edmonton.{{Cite web |date=19 March 2019 |title=Sportsnet, APTN Set to Deliver First Cree-Language NHL Broadcast on March 24 |url=https://www.sportsvideo.org/2019/03/19/sportsnet-aptn-set-to-deliver-first-cree-language-nhl-broadcast-on-march-24/ |access-date=2019-03-23 |website=Sports Video Group |language=en}}{{Cite web |last1=Fournier |first1=Ariel |last2=Kurtz |first2=Rod |title=Hockey night in Cree: Announcers preparing for historic NHL broadcast Sunday |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/hockey-night-in-cree-1.5064379 |access-date=2019-03-24 |website=CBC News |language=en}} On December 13, 2019, APTN and Rogers announced that they would broadcast six Hometown Hockey games per-season in the language over the next three years.{{Cite web |title=APTN inks 3 year deal with Rogers to broadcast NHL games in Plains Cree |url=https://aptnnews.ca/2019/12/12/aptn-inks-3-year-deal-with-rogers-to-broadcast-nhl-games-in-plains-cree/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213042527/https://aptnnews.ca/2019/12/12/aptn-inks-3-year-deal-with-rogers-to-broadcast-nhl-games-in-plains-cree/ |archive-date=2019-12-13 |access-date=2019-12-13 |website=APTN News |language=en-US}} After a hiatus, the broadcasts returned in 2022 during the 2021–22 NHL season, with most of the games now drawn from Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts.{{cite web |last1=Laskaris |first1=Adam |date=23 December 2021 |title=National Hockey League broadcasts in Cree are back in the New Year |url=https://windspeaker.com/news/sports/national-hockey-league-broadcasts-cree-are-back-new-year |access-date=20 March 2022 |website=Windspeaker |publisher=Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA)}} APTN began to add a package of Inuktitut broadcasts in 2025.{{Cite web |last=Wheatle |first=Tiar |date=2025-01-18 |title=NHL hockey on APTN will soon feature Inuktitut |url=https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/hockey-night-in-cree-and-inuktitut-starts-soon-on-aptn/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=APTN News |language=en-US}}

Budget

In 2023, APTN had an annual budget of $47 million.{{Cite web |date=February 2024 |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://www.aptn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Financial-Statement-2023.pdf |website=www.aptn.ca}}

Distribution

APTN's service previously consisted of four feeds: separate national cable feeds for Eastern (Ontario and east), Western Canada (Manitoba and west), and Northern Canada, as well as a national HD feed. The terrestrial feed, the successor to the original TVNC, was available over-the-air in Canada's far northern areas. It consists of flagship station CHTY-TV{{RecnetCanada|CHTY-TV}} in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, semi-satellite CHWT-TV{{RecnetCanada|CHWT-TV}} in Whitehorse, Yukon, and numerous low-powered rebroadcasters across the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, Alberta, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador.

On August 31, 2011, APTN shut down 39 low-power television repeaters across the Northwest Territories and Yukon, representing nearly half of its over-the-air transmitters. Although this discontinuation was conducted on the same day as Canada's digital transition deadline in certain mandatory markets, these over-the-air transmitters were not subject to this deadline. None of the mandatory markets for digital transition were located the Northwest Territories or Yukon.{{Cite web |title=Transmitters slated to shut down on August 31, 2011 |url=http://www.aptn.ca/psa/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826021821/http://www.aptn.ca/psa/index.php |archive-date=Aug 26, 2011 |access-date=Jan 24, 2021}} APTN's 2013 CRTC licence renewal did not include any over-the-air transmitters.{{cite web |url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2013/2013-383.pdf |title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-383 |date=August 8, 2013 |website=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission |access-date=June 23, 2022}}

In November 2016, CEO Jean La Rose told the Winnipeg Free Press that APTN was negotiating carriage for a U.S. service. He noted that there was a high level of interest among Native Americans for programming relevant to their communities.{{cite news|title=Aboriginal TV network seeks U.S. expansion|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/aboriginal-tv-network-seeks-us-expansion-402007995.html|website=Winnipeg Free Press|date=19 November 2016|access-date=29 November 2016|last1=Cash|first1=Martin}}

class="sortable wikitable"

|+ Over-the-air repeaters of APTN (Alberta)

! City of licence

! Channel

! Callsign

! Notes

Chateh

| 13

| CKCA-TV

|{{RecnetCanada|CKCA}}

class="sortable wikitable"

|+Over-the-air repeaters of APTN (Newfoundland and Labrador)

! City of licence

! Channel

! Callsign

! Notes

Goose Bay

| 12

| CHTG-TV

| Has application to convert to digital as CHTG-DT on VHF 7{{RecnetCanada|CHTG}}

Hopedale

| 12

| CH4153

|

Makkovik

| 12

| CH4151

|

Nain

| 12

| CH4154

|

Postville

| 12

| CH4152

|

Rigolet

| 12

| CH4155

|

class="sortable wikitable"

|+ Over-the-air repeaters of APTN (Northwest Territories)

! City of licence

! Channel

! Callsign

! Notes

Fort Good Hope

| 12

| CH4200

|

Fort McPherson

| 10

| CH4205

|

Fort Simpson

| 14

| CH4202

|

Fort Smith

| 10

| CH4206

|

Hay River

| 12

| CH4160

|

Inuvik

| 13

| CH4221

|

Norman Wells

| 12

| CH4220

|

Ulukhaktok

| 13

| CH2553

|

Yellowknife

| 11

| CHTY

|

class="sortable wikitable"

|+Over-the-air repeaters of APTN (Nunavut)

! City of licence

! Channel

! Callsign

! Notes

Arctic Bay

| 11

| CH4196

|

Arviat

| 7

| CH4158

|

Baker Lake

| 12

| CH4156

|

Cambridge Bay

| 13

| CH2550

|

Chesterfield Inlet

| 6

| CH4213

|

Clyde River

| 6

| CH4172

|

Coral Harbour

| 4

| CH4197

|

Gjoa Haven

| 13

| CH2552

|

Hall Beach

| 12

| CH4214

|

Igloolik

| 12

| CH4201

|

Iqaluit

| 10

| CH4161

|

Kimmirut

| 6

| CH4198

|

Kinngait

| 12

| CH4157

|

Kugaaruk

| 13

| CH2554

|

Nanisivik

| 11

| CH4178

|

Pangnirtung

| 12

| CH4162

|

Pond Inlet

| 12

| CH4163

|

Rankin Inlet

| 12

| CH4265

|

Resolute

| 12

| CH4208

|

Sanikiluaq

| 12

| CH4217

|

Taloyoak

| 13

| CH2555

|

Whale Cove

| 10

| CH4219

|

class="sortable wikitable"

|+ Over-the-air repeaters of APTN (Quebec)

! City of licence

! Channel

! Callsign

! Notes

Akulivik

| 12

| CH4189

|

Aupaluk

| 11

| CH4182

|

Inukjuak

| 11

| CH4191

|

Ivujivik

| 11

| CH4190

|

Kangiqsualujjuaq

| 12

| CH4183

|

Kangiqsujuaq

| 12

| CH4185

|

Kangirsuk

| 12

| CH4184

|

Kuujjuaq

| 12

| CH4195

|

Kuujjuarapik

| 7

| CH4194

|

Povungnituk

| 7

| CH4192

|

Salluit

| 7

| CH4193

|

Tasiujaq

| 12

| CH4187

|

Umiujaq

| 6

| CH4188

|

class="sortable wikitable"

|+Over-the-air repeaters of APTN (Yukon)

! City of licence

! Channel

! Callsign

! Notes

Dawson City

| 9

| CH4261

|

Upper Liard

| 11

| CH4167

|

Watson Lake

| 5

| CH4169

|

Whitehorse

| 11

| CHWT

|

The Eastern Canada cable feed operated as the national feed until the Western Canada feed began service on October 2, 2006.

Advertising policy

APTN will avoid stereotypes and clichés when they choose advertisers.Bredin, M., Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, & Canadian Electronic Library. (2010). Indigenous screen cultures in Canada / edited by Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson and Marian Bredin. (DesLibris. Books collection). Winnipeg [Man.]: University of Manitoba Press.

Former subsidiaries

APTN formed a number of subsidiary media companies which, in 2019, were spun off

as a new company Dadan Sivunivut, "an arms-length, independent company with the responsibility to manage and expand the group of companies that had been established in the previous 12 years under the APTN umbrella".{{cite web |title=Dadan Sivunivut |url=https://www.dadansivunivut.ca/ |website=Dadan Sivunivut |access-date=May 26, 2024}}

=First Peoples Radio=

On June 14, 2017, a subsidiary of APTN, First Peoples Radio Inc. (FPR), was granted licences by the CRTC to operate radio stations in Toronto and Ottawa aimed at urban Indigenous populations in those cities. The Ottawa station will broadcast on 95.7 FM and the Toronto station will use 106.5 FM. Both frequencies had previously been allocated to Aboriginal Voices Radio which had its licenses revoked in 2015. FPR had also applied for licenses in Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver but the CRTC granted these to other applicants.{{Cite web |url=http://theturtleislandnews.com/index.php/2017/06/14/crtc-grants-licences-five-radio-stations-serve-indigenous-people-urban-centres-country-wide/ |title=CRTC grants licences for five radio stations to serve indigenous people in urban centres country wide - the Turtle Island News |access-date=2017-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614222316/http://theturtleislandnews.com/index.php/2017/06/14/crtc-grants-licences-five-radio-stations-serve-indigenous-people-urban-centres-country-wide/ |archive-date=2017-06-14 |url-status=dead }}

First Peoples Radio Inc had originally announced that its two radio stations, CFPT-FM in Toronto{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/toronto.htm|title=Local Broadcast Markets - Diversity of Voices - Toronto|first1=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)|last1=Government of Canada|first2=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)|last2=Government of Canada|date=Jan 15, 2008|website=crtc.gc.ca|access-date=Jan 24, 2021}} and CFPO-FM in Ottawa,{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/ott_gat.htm|title=Local Broadcast Markets - Diversity of Voices - Ottawa/Gatineau|first=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)|last=Government of Canada|date=Jan 15, 2008|website=crtc.gc.ca|access-date=Jan 24, 2021}} were to go on the air by June 2018 but later delayed its soft launch until October 24, 2018. FPR will produce and share programming with the Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation in Saskatchewan and Native Communications Incorporated in Manitoba and is also in talks with the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society, which has been granted radio licenses in Edmonton and Calgary, and Northern Native Broadcasting (Terrace), which operates an Indigenous radio station in Terrace, British Columbia, and has been granted a license to operate a radio station in Vancouver, about potential programming partnerships.{{cite web|url=http://mediaincanada.com/2017/10/26/first-peoples-radio-stations-to-launch-in-ontario/|title=First Peoples Radio stations to launch in Ontario|website=mediaincanada.com}}

The stations first went on the air on October 24, 2018 at noon, branded as Elmnt FM.[https://nowtoronto.com/music/elmnt-fm-aptn-radio/ "APTN to launch new Indigenous radio station ELMNT.FM in Toronto"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717041703/https://nowtoronto.com/music/elmnt-fm-aptn-radio/ |date=2018-07-17 }}. Now, June 13, 2018.

In 2019, ownership of First Peoples Radio was transferred to Dadan Sivunivut.

=Expansion into the United States =

APTN launched a similar outlet, All Nations Network, in the United States, which has been under the umbrella of Dadan Sivunivut since 2019.{{cite web

| url = https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/all-nations-network-native-american-programming-aptn-1201709055/

| title = All Nations Network, a Cable Outlet for Native Peoples, Wants to Launch in U.S.

| last = Steinberg

| first = Brian

| website = Variety

| date = 18 February 2016

| language = en-US

| access-date = 2016-02-29

}} APTN had previously aired works produced in the United States, such as the full-length documentary film Skydancer, directed by Katja Esson, about the community of Akwesasne and its ironworkers. It was aired on both APTN and PBS in the United States in October 2012, after winning awards at film festivals.

See also

{{Portal|Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Canada}}

References

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Category:Specialty television channels in Canada

Category:Indigenous film and television production companies in Canada

Category:Indigenous organizations in Manitoba

Category:1992 establishments in Canada