UH Hilo is one of the proud sponsors of a new interactive Internet-based television network recently launched with nine “channels” featuring Hawai‘i news, entertainment, original programming, vintage television, sports, travel information, educational and public service programs, all provided free to the public.

PacificNetwork.tv, with the tag line “The Native Hawaiian Portal to the World,” is described on its website as being a TV network. “We provide news and movies so we feel like TV,” it says on the site’s About Us page. “We also offer articles and radio programs and some of our original shows feature interactivity.”

The National Science Foundation’s Hawai‘i Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), a statewide science and technology program initiated at UH Hilo, is proud to be a part of Pacific Network through the sponsorship of several short video pieces and video news releases on the site. The videos can be found throughout the site, particularly in the “Science and Environment” and “In the Classroom” categories.

Look for the PRISM movie featuring UH Hilo biology professor and co-director of Hawai‘i EPSCoR Don Price (at left) and others, including one about the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, and another about coqui frogs. UH Hilo’s ‘Imiloa Astronomy Education Center is also featured.

Pacific Network is run by local video & film producers, writers, filmmakers, web designers, artists, and journalists. The News Desk reporters are Native Hawaiian. Everyone on staff has a connection to Hawai‘i. The founding underwriter is the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.