Country Ivory Coast Founded 1961 | Availability NationalInternational | |
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Type Broadcast radio and television Owner Government of Côte d'Ivoire Key people Director General: Pierre Brou Amessan. Launch date Radio: 1961Television: 1966 CEO Ahmadou Bakayoko (May 2013–) Profiles | ||
Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne (RTI) is the publicly owned radio and television authority of Côte d'Ivoire. It is financed through a combination of television and radio licences, advertisements, and taxes.
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Activities
RTI currently operates two radio networks, in addition to four national television networks
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Television
Business partnerships
The RTI group has developed partnerships with a number of foreign broadcasters and corporations. RTI has a program sharing agreement with the Benin national broadcaster LC2 and the domestic broadcast network KBS.
Thomson France has been contracted to refurbish the broadcasting infrastructure of RFI television and radio.
Infrastructural growth
RFI has begun a push for total radio and television coverage of the nation prior to the 2008 general elections, and has a 9 billion (us) CFA Franc program to rebuild broadcast facilities. The 13 existing will be refurbished and 14 additional modern broadcast points will be constructed. This program includes the building of a number of new technical buildings and business offices throughout the country.
Rebuilding broadcast facilities in the north
The end of the Ivorian Civil War of 2002-2007 left both the infrastructure and reputation of the RTI media in the former rebel held areas of the country damaged. Much of the population in the northern rebel regions see the RTI news programs as culpable in the propaganda push of the national government. RTI has set out plans to re-extend broadcast facilities and programming to these former rebel regions.
Internationalisation
Fréquence 2 and La Première are planned to both be broadcast internationally, with the later now available by satellite, shortwave and cable in France.