Te Kāea ("The Leader", or Te Kaea News as written on television guides) was a nightly New Zealand television news show that aired on Whakaata Māori at 6:30pm.
Te Kāea was also shown in Australia starting 17 March 2013,[1][2] helped by Whakaata Māori's "strong collaborative relationship" with Australia's NITV as members of the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (WITBN)[1][3] and Australia's Māori population of 140,000 at the time.
It was created as an alternative to existing news programmes on national television, delivering news in a uniquely Māori perspective, in opposition to Te Karere, which was more mainstream.
[4] Māori Television announced the end of Te Kāea in November 2018, scheduled for February 2019, as part of a strategic plan to create a uniform brand for all of its news and current affairs programmes.
[5] Its current brand is Te Ao Māori News.