APIA (Pacific Media Watch / Samoa Observer): The Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (CCCS) launched a new television and radio station today.
General secretary Rev Dr Iutisone Salevao says the stations will be called EFKS Television and Radio Broadcasting for now and will operate in a building behind the church’s headquarters in Apia.
The initial focus is youth, and all programmes will be in English and Samoan.
Both stations are co-funded by the Council for World Mission in Singapore and London, but the church hopes for financial self-sufficiency in the future.
The general manager of both church stations is Tuiasau Uelese Petaia, a former chief executive officer of TV One, who also ran his own television station, LAU TV.
Tuiasau, a former vice president of the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) served time at Tafa’igata prison for not paying National Provident Fund employee payments for staff of his LAU TV station which eventually folded.
The Catholic Church in Samoa also operates a TV and radio station.
See Savali News for more in depth coverage on the launch of the new TV and radio channel.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Pacific Media Watch
