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Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina

Headquarters of the Radio Burkina, part of Burkina Faso's national broadcasting company RTB in Ouagadougou
Type	Broadcast
Country	Burkina Faso
Availability	National
Owner	Government of Burkina Faso
Launch date	12 October 1959 (radio) August 1963 (television)
Former names	Radiodiffusion-Télévision Voltaïque (1963-1984)
Official website	https://www.rtb.bf/

The Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina is the national broadcaster of the West African state of Burkina Faso. Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina is headquartered in the capital city Ouagadougou. Generaldirector (CEO) of RTB is Marcel Toé.

History

At the time, RTV started broadcasting on 12 October 1959, with programmes in French and 13 other languages. It would air for at least 82 hours per week with culture and science programmes.

With equipments from France, television started broadcasting in August 1963 as VoltaVision and it broadcasts 4 hours per week during the first few years. Programmes on the service were either made in their country, or imported from France, Germany and the United States. Television broadcasts were suspended in January 1966, but were restored at an unknown date.

During the 2014 uprising, protesters stormed the building of the RTB, seized the technical equipment and stopped broadcasts of the TVB and RB.

At the January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état the mutinous soldiers declared on RTB television on 24 January 2022, that a military junta of Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and his "Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration" had seized control of Burkina Faso.

On the same year, eight months later, (see September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état) RTB television stopped broadcasting for hours until a group of soldiers, led by Ibrahim Traoré, announced the fall of Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba due to his inability to deal with jihadism in the country, they also announced a curfew, the suspension of all political and civil society activities, of the Constitution of Burkina Faso and closed all air and land borders.

See also

• Media of Burkina Faso
• Adjaratou Lompo

References

1. ^ "World Communications" (PDF). UNESCO. 1975. p. 127. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
2. "Television Factbook" (PDF). 1971. p. 1062-b. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
3. "Television Factbook" (PDF). 1977. p. 1135-b. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
4. Mednick, Sam (2022-01-24). "Soldiers declare military junta in control in Burkina Faso". CTVNews. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
5. "Burkina: des militaires annoncent la dissolution du gouvernement, le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré prend la tête du pays". RFI (in French). 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
6. "Burkina: Burkina Faso: Military officers remove President Damiba in a coup". AlJazeera. 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2022-09-30.

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