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The French military opened the first radio broadcasting station in Dakar in 1932. It began broadcasting civilian programming in 1939. The origins of RTS are in Radio-Dakar, created in 1950, that broadcast eight hours per day. In 1951 two channels appear: Dakar Inter and Dakar Afrique, broadcast to listeners across western Africa.
Television sets: 361,000 (1997). [needs update] Radio is the most important medium of mass information and source of news due to the high illiteracy rate. [2] The BBC World Service (105.6 MHz) and Radio France Internationale are available on FM in Dakar. [4] Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS) and 2sTV are the two main TV channels.
Only half of Dakar residents identify with a Francophone status or feel solidarity with French-speaking countries, but the French language is seen as essential for everyday affairs and education. [72] French was the language of literacy for 37.2% of the population in 2013, followed by Arabic at 11.1%.
Canal+ Réunion owned by France's Canal+ Groups and Vivendi, is the main provider in French-speaking for east african region and fr: Parabole Réunion on satellite Eutelsat 16A. Another entrant into the satellite television circuit in Africa is MyTv Africa has been defunct since 2023, and product subsidiary of Dubai-based Strong Technologies.
The Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision du Sénégal (ORTS) was created in 1973, operating two radio channels and a national television channel (channel 7 in Dakar). [1] For nearly thirty years, RTS was the only television channel receivable within Senegal, when 2sTV (initially RTS 2S) started broadcasting.
France was the world’s third largest TV producer in the global TV market last year, claiming a 7.3% market share, placed behind the U.S. (with a 65.9% share) and the U.K. (with 9.9%), but was ...
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
112 Kurdish-language television. 113 Kuwait. 114 Kyrgyzstan. ... BFBS TV 1; BFBS TV 2 (Mount Pleasant base area only) BBC World News; ... (Free to Air French TV channel)