Somali National Television
IndustryBroadcasting
Founded17 August 1983
4 April 2011 (re-launch)
Headquarters
Mogadishu
,
Somalia
Area served
Somalia & abroad (satellite)
OwnerFederal Government of Somalia
Websitehttps://sntv.so/

Somali National Television (SNTV) (Somali: Telefishinka Qaranka Soomaaliyeed, abbreviated TQS) is the national television station of Somalia.

History

The first regular TV services began in Somalia on 17 August 1983,[1][2] with funds obtained from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates with broadcasting (in Somali and Arabic) two hours daily and three hours on Fridays and holidays, ceasing its operation during the civil war.[3]

Initially it was known as Telefishanka J.D. Soomaaliya (Television of the Somali D.R.). Not much further information from this phase exists. Somalian journalist Axmed Siciid had a news program on the channel in its beginnings called Todobaadkii Hore Iyo Aduunka (The Past Week and Around the World).[4]

Re-launch

On March 18, 2011, the Ministry of Information of the Transitional Federal Government began experimental broadcasts of the new television channel. After a 20-year hiatus, the station was shortly thereafter officially re-launched on April 4, 2011.[5]

SNTV broadcasts 24 hours a day, and can be viewed both within Somalia and abroad via terrestrial and satellite platforms.[6]

Somali National Television is the principal public service broadcaster in Somalia. Headquartered in Mogadishu, the nation's capital, its main responsibility is to provide public service broadcasting throughout the country.

SNTV is regulated by the Ministry of Information, Posts & Telecommunication of the Somali Council of Ministers.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa
  2. ↑ URTNA Review
  3. ↑ World Broadcasting: A Comparative View
  4. ↑ "Wararka Sideetamadkii iyo Axmed Sciid Cige". Archived from the original on 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2023-09-28 – via www.youtube.com.
  5. ↑ After 20 years, Somali president inaugurates national TV station
  6. ↑ Somalia launches national TV

References

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