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Communications

Telecom Cook Islands offers International Direct Dialing services as well as internet, email, fax, telex and telegram facilities. Some of these services are also offered on the outer islands, which also have local television broadcast facilities based around a satellite package marketed by TCI.

There are two radio stations - Radio Cook Islands and Radio Ikurangi. Radio Cook Islands operates 18 hours on Fridays and Saturdays and 17 hours the rest of the week and its AM signals reach all islands in the country. Radio Ikurangi broadcasts an FM signal with limited reach.

Privately owned Cook Islands Television broadcasts on Rarotonga from 2pm to 8am daily, presenting a mix of local news, the New Zealand Television One news service, ABC Asia-Pacific and overseas-sourced programmes.

The former Government-owned newspaper, The Cook Islands News, was privatised in 1989 and publishes six days a week. Rarotonga's two weekly newspapers, the Herald and the Independent are owned by Elijah Communications, which also operates Cook Islands Television and Radio Cook Islands.