About & Description

The Pacific Media Network is a New Zealand radio network and pan-Pasifika national broadcasting network, currently owned and operated by the National Pacific Radio Trust and partly funded by the Government. It includes the Niu FM radio network, Pacific Radio News and Auckland-based Radio 531pi station combined are accessible to an estimated 92 percent of the country's Pacific population. The network targets both first-generation Pacific migrants and New Zealand-born people with Pacific heritage. As of 2009, it was the only specifically pan-Pacific broadcaster in New Zealand.The National Pacific Radio Trust receives a $3.25 million annual grant from the Government, managed by NZ On Air and overseen by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. It broadcasts in English, Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, Tongan, Samoan, Tuvaluan, Kiribati Gilbertese, Fijian, Solomon Islands Pijin, Tokelauan and Samoan — 11 of the 40 languages NZ On Air supports. Since August 2017, the Trust is chaired by Tiumalu Peter Fa'afiu and Patrick Lino is the CEO. Its mission is to "empower, encourage and nurture Pacific cultural identity and economic prosperity in New Zealand" and to "celebrate the Pacific spirit".