“He used to say, ‘I don’t always know what they’re saying, but when they laugh, I laugh and everybody has a good time,’” Mcleod said. Having that space in 48 hours instead of 24 could go a long way to more Inuit being able to do what they want to do.”Ĭentral to Mcleod’s dream of seeing more Inuit on TV comes from his uncle, who used to watch all of the Inuit shows he could find on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, even if they weren’t in his language. “I want to have space for Inuit to make whatever they want to make.

“Having multiple Inuit broadcasters can only be a good thing,” he said. The two networks have a “really wonderful relationship,” Mcleod said, adding that he went on Uvagut TV to promote his channel’s launch. Uvagut TV is a round-the-clock broadcast on Shaw Direct, Arctic Co-Op Cable in Nunavut and the territories and FCNQ in Nunavik. Uvagut TV’s executive director, Lucy Tulugarjuk, said in a statement that the new channel is a “ringing endorsement that Canada needs to embrace and support multiple platforms of Indigenous content.” “I’m hoping that we’ll be able to reach the whole of the North very soon.

“I’ve heard from some folks that they feel sort of distanced from their culture, not being able to be involved or have access to this sort of television service,” he said.

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