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FNX | First Nations Experience TV Network Extends Partnership for
AIndian Pride Series
ccording to a report by Native News Online.Net, FNX | First Nations Experience, the rst and only national television network in the U.S. with a 24/7 devotion to
American Indian and World Indigenous cultures renewed broadcast rights for the series Indian Pride produced and distributed by Circle of Nations LLC and Prairie Public Television. e ve-year agreement for the series includes some FNX support for the production. e additional seasons will be carried by FNX and transmitted to over 20 million households across the country.
FNX was launched in San Bernardino on September 25, 2011, by PBS member station KVCR through a partnership with the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. FNX | First Nations Experience is a service of KVCR-TV/ FM, a division of the San Bernardino Community College District, San Bernardino.
With the help of strong programming like the Indian Pride series, FNX has steadily increased its reach across the country, emerging as a self- contained, turnkey, fulltime national public television channel. FNX’s a liate stations are in 18 states from Alaska to New York. FNX is available via satellite to stations and service providers throughout the U.S. over the Public
Television Interconnect System. FNX has delivered this service with the PBS Interconnect System since November 2014.
Indian Pride is presented in HD and strives to illustrate the rich diversity that exists within American Indian cultures and re ects a true voice of American Indians and Indigenous people from around the globe. e program is also o ered as an educational series, complete with online access to programs and a curriculum for grades K–1 at
IndianPridePBS.org.
FNX and Circle of Nations LLC ll a media void by providing programming not available anywhere else in the United States, telling the stories of Native people in their own words.
Indian Pride Host Junikae Randall pictured with Dr. Henrietta Mann
Currently, in Southern California, FNX can be seen over the air on KVCR’s digital channel 24.2, on Direct TV Ch. 24-2, and on Verizon FiOS Ch. 471. In addition to the major metropolitan regions of Chicago and Los Angeles, FNX is also carried by stations in Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Utah, including several tribal reservation communities. Public stations and service providers interested in carrying FNX are encouraged to contact FNX for details at FNX.org.
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