New, but local face at NACTV

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New, but local face at NACTV

Details: Published on Thursday, January 12, 2017

A new face will greet you at NACTV, as Niki Myker has taken over as the station’s office manager. (Photo by Bob Ford)

By Miranda Leybourne

Submitted

There’s been plenty of changes over the last few years at Neepawa’s community access television station, known as NACTV. The station, which has been broadcasting locally produced media since 1977, recently went through a huge shift at its annual general meeting on Nov. 1 of last year, where CEO and general manager Ivan Traill stepped down, announcing that the board of directors and the Neepawa Banner had entered into a three-year management agreement contract. The station’s mandate did not change, nor did its not-for-profit status.

2017 is bringing more changes to the beloved television station, which broadcasts on channel 12, MTS channel 30 and Bell ExpressVu channel 592. Niki Myker, who was brought up in Neepawa but has been away for several years, has come home and has taken on the position of office manager at NACTV.

Myker graduated high school in Neepawa in 2003, and went on to university where she initially studied sciences but switched to a fine arts degree. She graduated in 2013, and moved to Cold Lake, Alta. where she worked for Janvier Art Gallery for two years. But she’s not just interested in fine arts -- Myker was a volunteer firefighter in another place she lived, Humboldt, Sask.

“I really liked it,” Myker noted. “The guys there were very welcoming, they always helped you. The training was actually quite interesting, and very demanding as well.”

Myker decided to move back to Neepawa to be closer to her family and the place she felt was home, moving back earlier this month. She says being back in Neepawa, and taking the role of office manager at NACTV, is helping her to grow and learn.

“It allows me to work on communication skills as well as with the tech aspect...it allows me to understand a little bit more of that as well.”

Myker says she enjoys the more independent nature of the job, and is excited to see how she, as part of a team of employees, volunteers and board members, can contribute to NACTV’s future in the community.

“I think everybody is excited,” she stated enthusiastically. “We’re always open to the opportunity of how we can benefit ourselves as well. I think it’s great to come into a team that is very goal oriented like that.”