Ethiopian Media - Radio and Television

The Ethiopian authorities have maintained control over the radiocommunication stations and the telecasting station that are in Ethiopia. There are nine radiocommunication stations, and eight of them are air on americium frequences while one is shortwave based. These are the lone radiocommunication stations that have got been given licence to operate. The major radiocommunication stations, which are all americium frequences are: Radio Voice of One Free Ethiopia, Radio Ethiopia, the Voice of the Revolution of Tigray and Radio Torch, which is a pirated station. The lone telecasting web is Ethiopian Television. To do certain they are keeping with the governmental policy, radiocommunication broadcasts are made in a scope of languages. The black and white media, thanks to low literacy rates, high poorness levels, and mediocre statistical distribution methods outside the capital, only function a little amount of the population. The chief day-to-day newspapers include the Ethiopian Herald and Addis Zemen, the Daily Monitor.

November 17, 1993 was the first clip that radiocommunication station called the Free Radio Voice of Ethiopian Integrity was monitored. The radiocommunication station was broadcast media in Ethiopian Language by manner of a sender that was also being used by Radio Moscow's Ethiopian Language service. It is also considered by most to be hostile to authorities of both Federal Democratic Republic Of Ethiopia and Eritrea. In footing of political line, contact computer address and operation, the station is similar to the Voice of Ethiopian Patriotism which is a station that was monitored on October and November in 1992. It was also broadcasting its station from senders that were located in the former Soviet Union. The Free Radio Voice of Ethiopian Integrity was again heard in October of 1994 after not having been heard since January of the same year.

Radio Torch is run by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionist Democratic Front. It was started on November 7, 1994. Radio Torch looks to be the substitution for two former EPRDF stations which were: the Voice of the Ethiopian People for Peace, Democracy and Freedom, and the Voice of the Broad Oromo Masses. These were broadcast in Ethiopian Language and Oromo and shared sender facilities.

The Voice of the Tigray Revolution used to be a cloak-and-dagger radiocommunication station during the government of Mengistu and now it runs from Mekele which is the working capital of the Tigray area. It is supportive of the Tigray People's Liberation Presence which is a constituent of the opinion EPRDF.

The Ethiopian Television Network consists broadcasts that are made up mostly of political analysis and news analysis, amusement and educational programmes that are typically recorded in Ethiopian Language before they are transmitted via artificial satellite to the Ethiopian exiles who are in North America. The Head Executive of ETN is Mulugeta Lule. Lule is a journalist who have spent clip with respective mass media mercantile establishments that include the Tobia newspaper and magazine. Lule actually was the laminitis and editor of the Tobia newspaper and magazine in the 1990s before he left to applying for political refuge in the United States in 1996.