Radio e Televisão de Timor-Leste, E.P. (RTTL, , ''Radio and Television of East Timor'' in English) is the national
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radio
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and
television
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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
Tetum
Tetum may refer to:
* Tetum language, an Austronesian language
** Tetum alphabet, used to write the Tetum language
* Tetum people, an ethnic group of East Timor and Indonesia
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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
Tetum
Tetum may refer to:
* Tetum language, an Austronesian language
** Tetum alphabet, used to write the Tetum language
* Tetum people, an ethnic group of East Timor and Indonesia
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, as well as relay of news programmes and others from
RTP Internacional
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. In the past it occasionally broadcast a few programmes from
ABC Australia
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, and
BBC World News
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. In September 2008, it signed an agreement with
Brazil
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's
TV Globo
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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,
A Diarista
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Plo ...
,
A Grande Família
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,
Malhação
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and
Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo.
TVTL began broadcast in 1978, first as the
East Timor station of
TVRI
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and was later renamed as TV
UNTAET
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. 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 ...
.
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See also
*
Telecommunications in East Timor
References
External links
Radio-Televisão Timor Leste
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Mass media in Timor-Leste
Radio stations in Timor-Leste
Television stations in Timor-Leste
Multilingual broadcasters
Portuguese-language radio stations
Portuguese-language television networks
Indonesian-language radio stations
Indonesian-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Timor-Leste
Tetum language
Government-owned companies of Timor-Leste