Umuwa · APY Lands · South Australia

Palya.
Anangu radio, film and music from the APY Lands.

Radio 5NPY broadcasts to eight communities across 120,000 square kilometres of Country. PY Media has been recording stories here since EVTV went to air at Pukatja in 1983.

A broadcaster at the 5NPY studio desk in Umuwa, headphones on, in front of the mixing panel

Sunrise · Listen

The station wakes up with the Lands.

Music, news, community service announcements and interviews, in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and English. Live from the Umuwa studio, and streamed to anyone, anywhere.

  • AmataFM
  • IwantjaFM
  • KaltjitiFM
  • MimiliFM
  • PipalyatjaraFM
  • PukatjaFM
  • UmuwaFM
  • YunyarinyiFM

Frequencies per community to be confirmed with PY Media.

Radio 5NPY

Morning · Communities

Eight communities. One station.

From Pipalyatjara in the west to Iwantja in the east, along the Musgrave and Everard Ranges.

Red earth and low scrub stretching to the ranges near Amata, under a pale sky
Near Amata, western APY Lands

Long afternoon · Watch

Film made on Country, by the people who live here.

EVTV started at Pukatja in 1983, among the first remote Indigenous television anywhere. The archive runs to about 3,000 hours. Today PY Media keeps making film, video and outside broadcasts across the Lands.

Film and video
A camera operator filming on red sand under a blue sky in the desertA video camera on a tripod on red earth, with the ranges behind
An outside broadcast set up on red earth beside a community building, with the radio desk in the open air
Outside broadcast on the Lands

Blue hour · Music

When the heat drops, the studio fills.

Recording, releasing and playing Anangu music, from the Umuwa studio to the song competition and the outside broadcasts.

Music
A broadcaster speaking into a microphone at an outside broadcast in Mimili

Night · Our story

Four decades on air, and still here.

From the sideband radio network and EVTV at Ernabella, to founding ICTV at Umuwa in 2001, to Radio 5NPY today. This is the story of Anangu telling their own story.

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