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Indigenous Community Television, or ICTV, was a satellite television service that broadcast community television programs produced by, and for, indigenous people in remote communities around Australia.
Programs were contributed regularly by Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media, Warlpiri Media and Ngaanyatjarra Media for uplink by Imparja Television on their Optus C1 satellite channel 31.
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ICTV began began in the late 1990's as the Imparja Info Channel. It was a community TV style channel, screening predominantly local indigenous programmes and Bushvision. Many remote indigenous communities in central and north eastern Australia had analog terrestrial repeaters for this service, which utilise community licences.
The service, formerly available using a satellite receivers anywhere in Australia and also retransmitted in many BRACS (Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme) communities in Western and Central Australia, was closed on July 12, 2007 in order to make way for a National Indigenous Television service.
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