Te Mangai Paho
Encyclopedia
Te Māngai Pāho is a New Zealand
Crown Entity responsible for promotion of Māori language
and culture
by providing funding for Māori language programming on radio and television.
Set up by an amendment to the Broadcasting Act in 1989 it receives funding directly from the government.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Crown Entity responsible for promotion of Māori language
Maori language
Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...
and culture
Maori culture
Māori culture is the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, an Eastern Polynesian people, and forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture. Within the Māori community, and to a lesser extent throughout New Zealand as a whole, the word Māoritanga is often used as an approximate synonym for Māori...
by providing funding for Māori language programming on radio and television.
Set up by an amendment to the Broadcasting Act in 1989 it receives funding directly from the government.