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The majority of the programming is broadcast in Amharic, official languages of Ethiopia. [5] Some news segments are broadcast in other languages, such as Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya, Afar, and English. [6] EBC has entertainment programs like Ethiopian Idol, which features similar content to American talent show American Idol.
ESAT was established on April 24, 2010 by a group of leading exiled journalists, most of whom were jailed, tortured or forced into exile, to provide accurate, objective and balanced news, analysis and information, perspective as well as entertainment, talk shows, documentaries, sports and cultural programming pertaining to Ethiopia and the rest of the world.
Ethiopia got its first private television broadcaster in 2008 with EBS TV, a US based satellite TV channel mostly focused on infotainment. The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation headquarter in 2008 Until very recently there was only one private station with most of the stations being state owned.
Ethiosat (Amharic: ኢትዮሳት) is an Ethiopian communication satellite platform launched by the Information Network Security Agency (INSA) on 21 April 2017. The satellite hosts SES's NSS-12 satellite at 57 degrees East and provides 30 television channels for Ethiopian audience, the 12 are transmitted via high-definition standard.
A government-run news agency, now called the Ethiopian News Agency, ran from 1942 to 1947, and then was relaunched in 1954. Early twenty-first century Ethiopian newspapers can be broadly divided into two categories, Ethiopia based and diaspora based, with the majority of the diaspora-based ones being digital-only newspapers.
The Ethiopian News Agency (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዜና አገልግሎት Ye-Ityopya Zéna Agelgelot (IZA) or ENA) is the official news agency of the government of Ethiopia. It is the oldest news organisation in Ethiopia.
Kana TV (Amharic: ቃና ቲቪ) is an Ethiopian satellite television channel now owned by French-based Canal+. [1] It was co-founded by three Ethiopian entrepreneurs in combination with Moby Media Group and was officially launched on April 4, 2016. [2] Kana TV produces voice-over translation by dubbing foreign content to Amharic.
As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in English, Amharic and Arabic with local, national, and international news and a TV station, Walta TV, broadcasting mainly social and political news in Amharic over satellite. [4]