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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
New Zealand’s largest Indian media platform, Indian Weekender, has tied up with Fiji’s largest broadcaster, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC), for content sharing between the two media outlets.
The tie-up was formalised on 4 November in the FBC’s Suva offices during a meeting between FBC Chief Executive Riyaz Saiyed Khaiyum and Indian Weekender Founding Editor Dev Nadkarni.
"FBC and Indian Weekender have shared a long professional friendship and it’s great to formalise this into a content sharing tie-up between two well-established and popular media platforms of the region,” Mr Khaiyum said. Mr Khaiyum is an experienced broadcaster who has produced and hosted current affairs shows on Fiji television for several years. He has also worked as a television journalist in New Zealand.
“The tie-up is timely in that it comes in the run up to the upcoming, keenly anticipated Fijian elections on December 14. FBC has also invited the Indian Weekender team to send a team to cover the elections in Fiji,” said Mr Nadkarni, who earlier headed the Journalism Programme at the Fiji-headquartered University of the South Pacific.
He has also published articles in several Fijian and Pacific media outlets for more than two decades. Many of his former students are established journalists and communications practitioners in the Oceania region and beyond. Mr Khaiyum is one of them.
FBC began as Fiji Broadcasting Commission way back in the early 1950s. It has grown impressively over the years to broadcast across six radio stations – two in each of the local languages (Fijian, Hindustani, and English). Its first free-to-air television FBC TV was launched on 25 November 2011. In November 2019, FBC relaunched with its present name, Fijian Broadcasting Corporation, and logo.
FBC TV also has two other channels – FBC 2 and FBC sports, Fiji’s only HD channel. FBC News is the only multimedia newsroom in Fiji which recently launched an in-house developed app called the FBC App and is the highest rated app in Fiji.
Indian Weekender’s online and social media channels have a significant following from people of Fijian origin living in NZ and Australia and regularly covers news and features of interest to people of Fijian origin living outside Fiji.
New Zealand’s largest Indian media platform, Indian Weekender, has tied up with Fiji’s largest broadcaster, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC), for content sharing between the two media outlets.
The tie-up was formalised on 4 November in the FBC’s Suva offices during a meeting between FBC Chief...
New Zealand’s largest Indian media platform, Indian Weekender, has tied up with Fiji’s largest broadcaster, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC), for content sharing between the two media outlets.
The tie-up was formalised on 4 November in the FBC’s Suva offices during a meeting between FBC Chief Executive Riyaz Saiyed Khaiyum and Indian Weekender Founding Editor Dev Nadkarni.
"FBC and Indian Weekender have shared a long professional friendship and it’s great to formalise this into a content sharing tie-up between two well-established and popular media platforms of the region,” Mr Khaiyum said. Mr Khaiyum is an experienced broadcaster who has produced and hosted current affairs shows on Fiji television for several years. He has also worked as a television journalist in New Zealand.
“The tie-up is timely in that it comes in the run up to the upcoming, keenly anticipated Fijian elections on December 14. FBC has also invited the Indian Weekender team to send a team to cover the elections in Fiji,” said Mr Nadkarni, who earlier headed the Journalism Programme at the Fiji-headquartered University of the South Pacific.
He has also published articles in several Fijian and Pacific media outlets for more than two decades. Many of his former students are established journalists and communications practitioners in the Oceania region and beyond. Mr Khaiyum is one of them.
FBC began as Fiji Broadcasting Commission way back in the early 1950s. It has grown impressively over the years to broadcast across six radio stations – two in each of the local languages (Fijian, Hindustani, and English). Its first free-to-air television FBC TV was launched on 25 November 2011. In November 2019, FBC relaunched with its present name, Fijian Broadcasting Corporation, and logo.
FBC TV also has two other channels – FBC 2 and FBC sports, Fiji’s only HD channel. FBC News is the only multimedia newsroom in Fiji which recently launched an in-house developed app called the FBC App and is the highest rated app in Fiji.
Indian Weekender’s online and social media channels have a significant following from people of Fijian origin living in NZ and Australia and regularly covers news and features of interest to people of Fijian origin living outside Fiji.
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