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 Headquarters of the Radio Burkina, part of Burkina Faso's national broadcasting company RTB inOuagadougou | |
| Type | Broadcast |
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| Availability | National |
| Owner | Government ofBurkina Faso |
Launch date | 12 October 1959 (radio) August 1963 (television) |
Former names | Radiodiffusion-Télévision Voltaïque (1963-1984) |
Official website | https://www.rtb.bf/ |
TheRadiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina is the national broadcaster of the West African state ofBurkina Faso. Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina is headquartered in the capital cityOuagadougou. Generaldirector (CEO) of RTB is Marcel Toé.
Radio Haute-Volta started broadcasting on 12 October 1959, with programmes in French and 13 other languages. It would air for at least 82 hours per week with culture and science programmes.[1]
With equipment from France, television started broadcasting in August 1963 as VoltaVision and it broadcast 4 hours per week during the first few years.[2] Programmes on the service were either made in their country, or imported from France, Germany and the United States.[1] Television broadcasts were suspended in January 1966, but were restored at an unknown date.[3]
During the 2014 uprising, protesters stormed the building of the RTB, seized the technical equipment and stopped broadcasts of the TVB and RB.
At theJanuary 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état the mutinous soldiers declared on RTB television on 24 January 2022, that a military junta ofPaul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and his "Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration" had seized control of Burkina Faso.[4]
On the same year, eight months later, (seeSeptember 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état) RTB television stopped broadcasting for hours until a group of soldiers, led byIbrahim Traoré, announced the fall ofPaul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba due to his inability to deal withjihadism in the country, they also announced a curfew, the suspension of all political and civil society activities, of theConstitution of Burkina Faso and closed all air and land borders.[5][6]
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