Radio Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) is a public broadcaster of the West African state of
Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea, is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to the northeast, Côte d'Ivoire to the southeast, and Sier ...
. Radio Télévision Guinéenne is headquartered in the capital city of
Conakry
Conakry ( , ; ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973.
The current population of C ...
.
Background and history
Radio broadcasting in Guinea started in the colonial era, when the country was called French Guinea. Up until its independence, on 2 October 1958, the main activity of "radio banana" consisted in the broadcast of warnings and messages of the large local commercial companies on the movements of boats transporting bananas or citrus fruits; after independence, "radio banana" became Radio Guinée.
In 1962 the "Voix de la Révolution" was created, the organization responsible for managing radio, and the offer increased to two stations, one national and the other international, which however were merged in 1970, returning to being one. In May 1977 the first television channel started, which at the beginning was in black and white; color was introduced in 1982.
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In 1984 the Voix de la Révolution became "Radio Télévision Guinéenne", and a general director was placed at the head of the organization. In January of the same year, a documentation and archive service was created in charge of collecting, processing and making available all the documents produced and received by RTG, and safeguarding the audiovisual heritage of the radio and television archives; archive management was computerized in 1990.Intelsat 901
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satellite. Currently, only encrypted satellite platforms continue.
In 2007, a Guinean Air Force MiG-21
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet aircraft, jet fighter aircraft, fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB, Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nicknames in ...
departing from Conakry crashed into the Radio Television Guineenne headquarters. The Russian pilot ejected and was unharmed.
RTG is member of the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB).
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Publicly funded broadcasters
Television stations in Guinea
Television channels and stations established in 1977
State media
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