One Million Viewers Tune into Māori Television for Te Matatini
The world’s largest kapa haka festival held in Christchurch from March 5-8 delivered a television and online viewing
audience of one million viewers to Māori Television.
For the first time in Te Matatini’s history, as well as broadcasting live the finals day, Māori Television broadcast all
of the preliminary day performances live on television and also live streamed the performances capturing new audiences
in New Zealand and across Australia in record numbers.
“Congratulations to Te Matatini, the organisers and all of the kapahaka groups who passionately gave New Zealand
Aotearoa and the world four days of mesmerising performances,” says Māori Television Chief Executive Paora Maxwell.
“Māori Television viewers love kapa haka and, as the Home of Haka, Māori Television was proud to bring them extensive
coverage of Te Matatini.”
"Our broadcast resulted in a highly engaged audience that was broad in terms of Māori and non-Māori, age and location.
This coverage highlights the strength and indicates strong synergies that can be achieved with the mix of traditional
and online platforms,” says Mr Maxwell.
More than 30 percent of the online audience were watching from Australia. The Festival was equally successful in
attracting younger viewers with 71 percent of Māori Television website users aged between 18-44.
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