Radio e Televisão de Timor-Leste, E.P. (RTTL, , ''Radio and Television of East Timor'' in English) is the national

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and

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broadcaster in

East Timor Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...

Radio

The radio branch of RTTL is known as Radio Timor Leste (RTL), which broadcasts in

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and Portuguese. Radio Timor Leste is broadcast 16 hours a day with 34 programs locally produced by a staff of 63. Seven percent of RTL's programmes come from outside producers, including non governmental organizations and agencies. RTL has 4 departments to support its daily operation: News, Programming, Technical, and the Department of Promotion, External Production and Research. RTL Director Mr Rosario Da Graca Maia also serves as the Head of International Relations of Timor Lorosae'e Journalist's Association - TLJA. He has received an Australian Leadership Award and he's the Young International Analyst and Alert coordinator for the Southeast Asia Press Alliance - SEAPA Radio Timor Leste can be reached on FM frequency in Dili 91.7 and different frequency in every District. RTL has AM frequency on 684. RTL has a plan to open up a new Channel called Antena 2 targeted youth and possibility to attend advertisement as the institution base on decree law 48/2008 became as ''empresa publica'' (public company). Base on the survey done by East Timor Insight, Radio Timor Leste as a major channel of information and has a widest coverage of the population.

Television

The television division of RTTL is known as Televisão de Timor Leste or Televizaun Timor Lorosae (''East Timor Television''), abbreviated as TVTL. Its schedule consists of some locally made programs in

, as well as relay of news programmes and others from

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. In the past it occasionally broadcast a few programmes from

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, and

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. In September 2008, it signed an agreement with

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, allowing its access to that channel's programming until year-end 2014, in a package worth 3,000 hours of content. The package started with the 2006 version of Sinhá Moça, and by the end of 2009 planned to air non-telenovela formats,

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and Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo. TVTL began broadcast in 1978, first as the East Timor station of

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and was later renamed as TV

UNTAET The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET, ), was a United Nations mission in East Timor that aimed to solve the decades-long East Timorese crisis in the area occupied by Indonesian military. UNTAET provided an int ...

. Following independence on 20 May 2002, it adopted its present name. It absorbed the former TVRI transmitter on channel 7, as well as having a relay station on channel 12 in

Baucau Baucau (, ) is the second-largest city in Timor-Leste, after Dili, the capital, which lies to its west. Baucau has about 16,000 inhabitants, and is the capital of Baucau municipality, located in the eastern part of the country. In the time ...

.2005 World Radio and Television Handbook, page 642

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