{{short description|New Zealand television programme}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | runtime = 30 minutes | creator = | executive_producer = Taualeo'o Stephen Stehlin | producer = John Utanga<br>Ngaire Fuata | presenter = John Pulu<br>Marama T-Pole | country = New Zealand | language = English | network = TV One | first_aired = {{start date|1987|4|4|df=yes}} | last_aired = present }}
'''Tagata Pasifika''' is an English language New Zealand programme which screens on TVNZ's TV ONE and on Māori Television, first broadcast in 1987.<ref name=apr-35yrs>{{citation|title=Tagata Pasifika celebrates 35 years on air – a pan-Pacific voice on TV | Asia Pacific Report|language=en|work=Asia Pacific Report|date=2022-04-03|access-date=2024-02-03|url=https://asiapacificreport.nz/2022/04/03/tagata-pasifika-celebrates-35-years-on-air-a-pan-pacific-voice-on-tv/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322032926/https://asiapacificreport.nz/2022/04/03/tagata-pasifika-celebrates-35-years-on-air-a-pan-pacific-voice-on-tv/|archive-date=22 March 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> This programme is made to specifically meet the niche market of New Zealand's Pacific Islander (Pasifika) population.
==Content== Tagata Pasifika features current events from both New Zealand and Polynesia. The show features report coverage of Pacific Island cultural events such as the annual Pasifika festival along with arts and profiles.
==Naming== ''Tagata Pasifika'' was first coined in the mid 1980s as a reference to people with genealogical connections to islands within Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, French Polynesia and all others scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean but had chosen to live in Aotearoa New Zealand and identified Aotearoa New Zealand as their home base.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} There has been some dispute{{by whom|date=February 2024}} over the correct spelling of 'Pasifika', sometimes spelt Pasefika, Pacifica, Pacifika. ''Tagata Pasifika'' is generally accepted as correct and publicly reinforced by the Television New Zealand programme now also known by the same name but was previously spelt ''Tangata Pasifika''.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
Samoan = Pasefika Tongan = Pasifiki
==Reporters== *John Utanga (Cook Islands) *Marama T-Pole (Tuvalu) *John Pulu (Tonga) *Soana Aholelei (Tonga) *Karima Fai'ai (Samoa) *Alistar Kata (Cook Islands) *Johnson Raela (Cook Islands) *Taylor Aumua (Fijian Samoa) *Moana Makapelu Lee (Niuean/Cook Islands)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * Website [http://tvnz.co.nz/tagata-pasifika]
Category:Television shows funded by NZ on Air Category:New Zealand television talk shows Category:1987 New Zealand television series debuts
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