‘It was all very exciting’: APTN News past, present and future | APTN News
A new oral tradition. That was the whole concept behind the APTN Network.
“We enter the new millennium into a world of technology. While using this technology we can gather our nations on our televisions in our homes,” were among the first words to hit the airwaves on Sept. 1, 1999. The first broadcast was a three hour live show from the historic forks site, a traditional gathering place for Indigenous Peoples for hundreds of years.
“It was all very exciting, heart thumping too. You know, we were going live and just hoping everything went off without a hitch,” said Jim Compton, an Ojibway man dubbed as one of the networks founding fathers.
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