Uvagut TV celebrates one-year anniversary

IGLOOLIK, Nunavut — Canada’s first and only all-Inuktut TV channel, Uvagut TV, is celebrating its first anniversary this week. The channel was launched on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 by Nunavut Independent Television (NITV) and started out broadcasting 168 hours a week of Inuit-produced culture, arts, movies and information programming. Uvagut TV is available nationally to more than 610,000 customers across the country via Shaw Direct satellite service and can also be streamed via uvagut.tv. The channel is also carried by Arctic Co-op Cable in Nunavut and Northwest Territories and by FCNQ in Nunavik, in northern Quebec. “Thank you to everyone...