Country around Umuwa: red earth, low scrub and a wide sky

The radio tower at Amata with the community below the ranges

Spinifex plain and ranges in Central Australia

Mimili, South Australia, in low afternoon light

Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media · Radio 5NPY

Nganampa website pukultu nyangamaWelcome to PY Media

We record stories, interviews and meetings, produce and record music and run Radio 5NPY broadcasting across the APY Lands.

Listen live to 5NPY

Nganana tjintu winkingka wangkakatinyi tjukurpa wiru tjuta munula inma wiru tjuta kulu tjunkupai nyura pukultu kulintjaku.

On a daily basis at radio 5NPY Umuwa our broadcasters are presenting music programs, interviews, community service announcements and news bulletins.

Umuwa to Alice Springs to the satellite and down to the Lands.

Where people are, the radio is on.

“The first PY Media Soundpole located alongside the most visited place in the community, the Amata Store. People can hear the radio 24/7. Powered by the sun.”

PY Media is based in Umuwa. Umuwa is a service centre for the APY Lands.

Pukatja (Ernabella) Community is located in the Musgrave Ranges, approximately 450km south west of Alice Springs.

Amata Community is located at the western end of the Musgrave Ranges, approximately 380 km south west of Alice Springs.

Kaltjiti, formerly known as Fregon, had its beginning in 1934.

It is a small place with a lot going on, with a strong focus on family.

The Mimili Community has grown around the former cattle station Everard Park. The land was returned to the traditional owners in 1972.

Although Iwantja is regarded as a Pitjantjatjara community, the majority of people there refer to themselves as Yankunytjatjara.

Pipalyatjara is a few kilometres from the Surveyor General’s Corner, approximately 550 km south west of Alice Springs.

From Umuwa to every community

“5NPY is the regional FM radio network on the APY Lands operating from Umuwa where the broadcast signal is sent to Alice Springs, uplinked to the Aussat satellite and beamed down to the six main communities on the Lands where it is retransmitted.”

Frequencies to be confirmed with PY Media. Hover or tap a community.

Umuwa: FM to confirm
Pukatja (Ernabella): FM to confirm
Amata: FM to confirm
Kaltjiti (Fregon): FM to confirm
Yunyarinyi (Kenmore Park): FM to confirm
Mimili: FM to confirm
Iwantja (Indulkana): FM to confirm
Pipalyatjara: FM to confirm

A broadcaster at the Radio 5NPY studio desk at Umuwa

Three people at an outside broadcast table set up on red earth

A camera operator with a tripod on red earth

What we do

Radio. Music programs, interviews, community service announcements and news bulletins, every day, from Umuwa.

Outside broadcasts. Live music, community meetings and other community events, on the ground where they happen.

Music. A recording studio with instruments and gear; much of the 5NPY song list is music recorded here, including Inma.

Translation. Audio and text translation between Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and English, used by government, health and community organisations.

Training. In-house, bilingual, open to all Anangu interested in a career in media.

Listen and see what is on 5NPY

Country near Amata: red earth, low scrub and the ranges

Country and communities

PY Media works with the communities and homelands in the APY Lands of South Australia.

Our story

From a video camera in Pukatja, 1982

PY Media had its genesis in community television EVTV (Ernabella Video and Television) in Pukatja (Ernabella) in the early 1980s and the extensive sideband radio network which serviced the entire region from the late 1970s til early 1990s.

In November 1984 EVTV conducted its first test TV transmission and by April 1985 EVTV began regular television broadcasts. The video collection represents all of EVTV’s and PY Media’s recorded material from 1983 to 1996, approximately 3,000 hours.

Umuwa was established in 1991 as the administrative centre of the APY Lands. Thus PY Media was born and housed at Umuwa.

Read our story

Filming on the Lands: a crew on red earth under a wide sky

Country around Umuwa at dusk, the plain fading into the ranges

Nganampa websitepangka pulkulpa para tjarpama! Wirunya!Radio 5NPY is on now.

Listen live to 5NPY Contact PY Media, Umuwa

1 Tafe Road, Umuwa Community, SA 0872 · (08) 8954 8177

Photographs: PY Media. Additional landscapes: Wikimedia Commons, “Spinifex Savanna Central Australia” (Mosmas, CC BY-SA 2.5) and “Mimili, South Australia” (Vanguard Visions, CC BY 2.0). Opening sequence: PY Media and Commons photographs animated with camera drift; pending PY Media approval.