National Report on the
PY Media Regional Overview
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PY Media Regional Overview There are eleven communities in this region - six in the Anangu Pitjantjatjaraku Lands of South Australia, four north of the Northern Territory border and Yalata, right down on the coast of South Australia. Dialects of Western Desert Language spoken are Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara and there are strong cultural links to Ngaanyatjarra communities across the border into Western Australia. Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media was incorporated in 1988 to represent the media interests of people living on the Anangu Pitjantjatjaraku Lands in the NW of SA and neighbouring communities. Its governing committee was expanded in 1986 from the former Ernabella Media Committee, originally established to oversee the pioneering community television station Ernabella Video Television (EVTV), to include two senior delegates from each of nine communities and homelands groups. Current office bearers are Witjiti George - Chairman, Simon Tjiyangu - Public Officer and Pantjiti Tjiyangu - Women’s Officer. Their priority has been the video recording of traditional song and dance “inma” and story “tjukurpa”, several hundred hours of which comprise a priceless archive for Australia’s cultural heritage. The entire EVTV library (1,324 videocassettes) is being stored and catalogued at the “Ara Irititja” Pitjantjatjara Council archival project’s premises in Adelaide. A busy programme of traditional dance festivals in the communities and performance tours to major cities formed the basis of many of these recordings, but even more significant were the cross-country recordings of songlines and re-enactments of traditional stories on actual site. For several years I applied for and administered recurrent funding for six communities. By pooling wage top-up surpluses with the Revitalisation capital funds we were able to bring two non-gazetted communities, Pipalyatjara and Mimili up to broadcast capability, purchase Super VHS edit suites and cameras for all communities, build two new buildings at Fregon and Indulkana and fit out all six radio broadcast consoles with mixers and phone interfaces while we lobbied for access to Imparja’s sixth last audio channel on the BMAC transponder and sought alternative delivery systems in order to establish a Pitjantjatjara radio network. In 1996 PY Media relocated its office from EVTV in Ernabella to the new training centre at Umuwa, 30 km to the south, and this is now the hub for the Pitjantjatjara language radio network service 5NPY which was launched on May 8th this year. Programming is sent to the Pitjantjatjara and some Ngaanyatjarra communities via a 10 khz program line to Alice Springs and over the Imparja uplink to the Optus B3 satellite. Only the six AP communities and the new facility at Umuwa have been beneficiaries to date of BRS funds for capital equipment upgrade and are equipped to connect to the 5NPY radio network via TRI MM interfaces and Scoop Reporters. The other five communities outside the Lands are intended to receive local broadcast upgrades and become connected to the network in the next year or so. Training was fulltime and ongoing from 1984 to 1996 at EVTV in Ernabella and delivered in Pitjantjatjara by Simon Tjiyangu and myself, but it was always difficult to get out and spend long enough in other communities to sustain more than sporadic operations there. In 1995 twelve students completed the Batchelor College Certificate course and the current radio crew at Umuwa have been receiving training at Radio 5UV in Adelaide. Training needs to also be delivered on-site in the BRACS units as a matter of urgency to restore them to operational broadcast and production and establish regular programming input to 5NPY from the communities. Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara MEDIA CONTACTS Coordinator - Chris Ashby Radio 5NPY Manager - Will Rogers Admin. Assistant - Anna Szava Bodnar Phone : 08 8950 1576 Fax: 08 8950 1510 email : pymedia@dove.net.au Postal Address : Umuwa via Alice Springs NT 0872 PY Media BRACS AND BRS EXPENDITURE BRS
BRACS - Regional Council
Revitalisation Equipment 1994-95
AMATA BRACS Operators : None at present - Kenneth Ken ? Chairman : Administrator : Lee Brady (CDO) BRACS phone : (08) 8956 2821 Office phone : (08) 8956 2911 Office fax : (08) 8956 2921 Postal Address : Amata via Alice Springs NT 8072 LOCATION : Anangu Pitjantjatjaraku Lands S.A. ATSIC Region : Port Augusta (Nulla Wimila Kitja Regional Council) Austmap reference : Zone 52 - Easting 713000 - Northing 7106000 POPULATION : Indig - 537 Non Indig - 3 Total - 540 TRANSPORT : Road 150 kms from Ernabella LANGUAGES : Pitjantjantjara Broadcast : Pitjantjantjara BRACS LOCATION : Old recreation hall, may move back to council office Building : 2 rooms, security problems, console trashed TRANSMISSION : Good Television : (2) ABC / BRACS Ch 66 Imparja Ch 69 Radio : (2) ABC / BRACS 106.1 Mhz CAAMA 104.5 Mhz Service Licence Nos : TV: 2019 Radio: SL010150 FUNDING :
STUDIO EQUIPMENT : BRACS switcher WAGES / HOURS : TRAINING : Previous Operators : Kay McKenzie, Kinyin McKenzie. NEEDED : APUTULA Other names : Finke BRACS Operators : Chairman : Administrator : Dave Southern Other : Karen Aucote BRACS phone : none Office phone : (08) 8956 0966 Office fax : (08) 8956 0900 Postal Address : CMB Finke via Alice Springs NT 0872 LOCATION : North of S.A. / N.T. border ATSIC Region : Apatula (Papunya Regional Council) Austmap reference : Zone 53 - Easting 457000 - Northing 7170000 POPULATION : Indig - 149 Non Indig - 28 Total - 177 TRANSPORT : LANGUAGES : Yankunytjatjara Broadcast : BRACS LOCATION : Back section of Council Office building Building : Adequate TRANSMISSION : Good Television : (2) ABC / BRACS Ch 66 Imparja Ch 69 Radio : (1) ABC / BRACS 106.1 MHz Service Licence Nos : TV: 2898 Radio: SL010116 FUNDING :
STUDIO EQUIPMENT : Hi 8 camera , BRACS console WAGES / HOURS : TRAINING : NEEDED : DOCKER RIVER Other names : Kaltukutjara BRACS Operators : none Chairman : Administrator : Other : BRACS phone : Office phone : Office fax : Postal Address : LOCATION : North of S.A. / N.T. border ATSIC Region : Port Augusta (Nulla Wimila Kitja Regional Council) Austmap reference : Zone 52 - Easting 508000 - Northing 7249000 POPULATION : TRANSPORT : LANGUAGES : Pitjantjatjara Broadcast : No broadcast capability unless VCR BRACS LOCATION : Building : TRANSMISSION : Good Television : ABC Ch 66 Imparja Ch 69 Radio : ABC CAAMA Service Licence Nos : TV: 2898 Radio: FUNDING :
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