Grant Award View - GA350469

The purpose of the PacificAus TV 2023-24 and 2024-25 Grant Opportunity is to continue the program, delivered by Free TV Australia for two more years. It will make rights to at least 2,000 hours of Australian television content available to Pacific broadcasters in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, Tonga and Samoa. The second purpose of the Grant Opportunity is to make rights to Australian television content available to broadcasters in eight new target countries: Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, Palau, Cook Islands, Niue, New Caledonia and French Polynesia. The final purpose of the Grant Opportunity is to: acquire more content from the national broadcasters; scope the possibility of bringing content rights to other additional countries in the Indo-Pacific (beyond those specified above); scope the potential for production of bespoke programming for broadcasters; and scope the potential to acquire rights to sporting and other content of direct interest to target nations - such as state rugby league competitions which feature teams from Pacific nations.