Richard Broadbridge Explained

Richard Broadbridge is a Fijian journalist and media executive. In 2006 he founded private TV channel Mai TV.

Broadbridge was educated at Sacred Heart College, Auckland and the Marist Brothers High School, Fiji. He started his career in 1993 as a journalist with the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Limited (formerly Radio Fiji).^[1] He is also a former Fiji TV employee and TV Journalist. He was the first local reporter when Fiji TV started Fiji One News in April 1994. He resigned from Fiji TV in 2001.

In 2006 he became founder and CEO of Mai TV.^[2] He left the company in 2014 to build a media venture in Papua New Guinea,^[3] Click Pacific.^{[4] [5]} In 2018 he helped launch a TV station in Kiribati.^[6] The following year he assisted staff from the Tuvalu Broadcasting Corporation to conduct a test broadcast of the Parliament of Tuvalu for the then-upcoming Tuvalu.TV, which opened in December 2019.^[7]

Notes and References

1. News: Singh. Monika. How Richard made his mark in the field of journalism. 3 May 2013. The Fiji Times. 2 September 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120825200435/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?ref=archive&id=69754 . 25 August 2012.
2. Web site: We’re In The Process Of Acquiring TV Ownership: Pastor Vulaono . Fiji Sun . 16 December 2016 . 2 April 2023.
3. Web site: Expat returns . Fiji Times . 12 July 2014 . 2 April 2023.
4. Web site: Broadbridge Boosts Regional TV From PNG . Fiji Sun . 17 January 2015 . 2 April 2023.
5. Web site: Mai TV has new GM, Broadbridge focuses on SKYLITE expansion . Fiji Sun . 19 June 2013 . 2 April 2023.
6. Web site: Kiribati TV venture hopes to connect islands . RNZ . 2 May 2018 . 2 April 2023.
7. News: Tuvalu Parliament sessions go live. 8 April 2024. Radio New Zealand. 29 November 2019 . live . http://web.archive.org/web/20191129025317/https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/404419/tuvalu-parliament-sessions-go-live . 29 November 2019.