Residents of Papua New Guinea can now enjoy locally created Christian content on Hope Channel.
Hope Channel (PNG) started broadcasting a playlist of local content via Channel 7 on the National Broadcasting Corporation’s (NBC) eight-month-old digital TV platform facilities in Port Moresby on Wednesday, June 25.
After some years of trying to acquire a licence, Hope Channel (International) was previously rebroadcast to viewers in PNG from a satellite feed, and with this soft launch, the channel will now broadcast TV programs that are locally produced and streamed via two content servers located on the premises of NBC and via their digital TV platform.
”This is a huge step forward for us,” said Dr Brad Kemp, Adventist Media CEO. ”Our desire is to bring quality Christian television with PNG content to the people of PNG. Our current percentage of local content is around 28 per cent. We are working on increasing this with plans to do major content development over the next 12 months.”
Sinclair Singuit, a senior TV engineer from NBC, said, “I am quite pleased to witness this development, and our monitoring of the local content quality on the channel in the past 48 hours was excellent.”
NBC’s Julius Warfi, Sebastian Solomon and Mr Singuit are very supportive and, together with Adventist engineers from New Zealand and PNG, have worked tirelessly over a two-week period to ensure everything was set up and ready for this significant milestone.
”Andrew Ross from Napier, NZ, has been part of the team from the beginning,” said Dr Kemp. ”He has been critical to our success having built the play-out servers and guided the set up through to broadcast.”
A Mega Hope Channel (PNG) project is planned for January 8-31, 2026, in Port Moresby, with the aim of producing more than 350 TV programs such as preaching, singing, health talk shows and content suitable for children.
These programs will build a growing library of local content that will be used for digital evangelism across PNG.
”Hope Channel (PNG) now joins the global Hope family to proclaim Jesus and His life-changing power through television ministry,” said Dr Kemp.
This year’s media evangelism offering in August will go towards supporting this project.
