Fana TV is an Ethiopian

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network owned by

Fana Broadcasting Corporate Fana Broadcasting Corporate S.C. (FBC) is a state-owned mass media company operating in Ethiopia. Launched in 1994 it focuses mostly on political, social and economical reports about Ethiopia. It operates radio and television stations within Ethi ...

, which is a state-owned company. Launched in September 2017, the network is based in Ethiopia and broadcasts programming in

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. It has its studios located at the headquarters of Fana Broadcasting Corporate in

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, Ethiopia. In recent years, the channel stretched its network with number of news correspondents across the nation.

History

In 2014, Fana Broadcasting Corporate conducted worldwide

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with provision of lot, to complete modern, high-definition television. Telmaco was one of participant to the tender that proposed to offer specialized in system-integrator. In June 2015, Telmaco was awarded after long technical negotiation to LOT-2 design and successfully designed to operate the station. Test transmission was commenced with HD in July 2017 with only broadcasting music videos. Fana TV began broadcasting regular programmes in September via Eutelsat and Ethiosat. Throughout the transmission, Fana garnered public attention and growing

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s during 2018. Serial dramas and

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are prominent from past years and increasing the number of news correspondents across Ethiopia, becoming the current mostly watched television channel in recent years.

Platforms

Fana TV was initially made available through Ethiosat in late 2017. In March 2018, Fana TV signed an agreement with South African Digital Satellite Television (DStv) to make the channel more widely available throughout Africa and local internet provider called Websprix launched the first

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in Ethiopia which Fana TV started broadcasting.{{Cite web, url=http://fanabc.com/english/index.php/news/item/11591-fana-television-joins-dstv, title=Fana Television joins DStv, date=March 17, 2018, website=Fana Broadcasting Corporate

Programming

News

* ''Fana 90'' (ፋና 90) * ''Fana Zena'' (ፋና ዜና) * ''Fana Kelemat'' (ፋና ቀለማት) * ''Alem Shemach'' (ዓለም ሸማች)

Entertainment

* ''Tibeb Befana'' (ጥበብ በፋና) * ''Geordana’s Kitchen Show'' (ጆርዳና ኩሽና ሾው) * ''Fana Lamrot'' (ፋና ላምሮት)

Drama/Sitcoms

* ''Tireta'' (ትርታ) * ''Min Letazez'' (ምን ልታዘዝ?) * ''Zetenegnaw Shi'' (ዘጠነኛው ሺህ) *''

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References

Television channels in Ethiopia Television channels and stations established in 2017 Satellite television