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Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting (NAB) supports Aboriginal broadcasting societies to produce and distribute radio and television programming in the north. The NAB was established as part of the federal government's Northern Native Broadcasting Policy. The Policy set out five policy principles:
- Northern residents should be offered access to a range of programming choices through the exploitation of technological opportunities;
- Northern Native people should have the opportunity to participate actively in the determination by the CRTC of the character, quantity and priority of programming broadcast in predominantly Native communities;
- Northern Native people should have fair access to Northern broadcasting distribution systems to maintain and develop their cultures and languages;
- Programming relevant to Native concerns, including content originated by Native people, should be produced for distribution wherever Native people form a significant proportion of the population in the service area; and
- Northern Native representatives should be consulted regularly by government agencies engaged in establishing broadcasting policies that would affect their cultures.
The primary objectives of the NAB are:
- to support the production of culturally-relevant Aboriginal programming
- to facilitate establishment & maintenance of production facilities
- to ensure availability of significant amount of radio and television programming
- to contribute to the protection and enhancement of Aboriginal languages and cultures
- to provide venues to articulate issues of relevance to Aboriginal audiences and communities
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