{"id":200262,"date":"2015-04-28T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T07:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=200262"},"modified":"2015-04-28T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T07:41:52","slug":"the-pacific-way-tv-show-celebrates-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-pacific-way-tv-show-celebrates-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pacific Way TV show celebrates 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUVA, Fiji<\/strong>\u2014The Secretariat of the Pacific Community\u2019s flagship TV show, The Pacific Way, marks a milestone of 20 years on air with its 2015 season premiere this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>What started as a trial for exchanging news stories, with just one tape being circulated between TV stations in the Cook Islands, Niue and Fiji, has evolved into a popular, weekly half-hour program that is now distributed to 20 stations across the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years of producing stories that matter to Pacific people is a proud achievement for our team at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community,\u201d The Pacific Way team leader, Joji Nabalarua, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re striving to keep the show relevant, entertaining and informative by always looking at ways to add a little more flavor to the format. In 2015, viewers can also look forward to some great stories from places we\u2019ve never filmed before like Kiritimati, the world\u2019s largest atoll, and also Yap in Federated States of Micronesia,\u201d Nabalarua said.<\/p>\n<p>The regional season launch of The Pacific Way will begin with Fiji Television Limited\u2019s Fiji One Channel at 5:30pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A formal celebration to mark the show\u2019s 20th anniversary is planned for later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Production of The Pacific Way began in 1995 with seed funding provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and with set props such as tapa cloth, fishing nets and carvings donated to SPC by various islands around the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Fiji media personality Lenora Qereqeretabua has anchored the show since the beginning, originally alongside Yaminiasi Gaunavou.<\/p>\n<p>She says while The Pacific Way has undergone changes over the years, it remains true to its purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe show has been an opportunity for us Pacific Islanders to really appreciate our own culture, our own traditions, languages, fashion and the sorts of challenges we\u2019re facing now in terms of environment, food security and health, for example,\u201d Qereqeretabua said.<\/p>\n<p>To view previous episodes, see The Pacific Way playlist: www.youtube.com\/user\/spcnc1. <strong>(SPC)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUVA, Fiji\u2014The Secretariat of the Pacific Community\u2019s flagship TV show, The Pacific Way, marks a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4166,4167,3151,406],"class_list":["post-200262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-fiji-television-limited","tag-lenora-qereqeretabua","tag-suva","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}