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Majuro Educational Television
Majuro Educational Television was a television station in the Majuro Atoll. It was owned by the Alele Corporation, a non-profit in charge of the Alele Museum. History The station signed on in August 1989. The Alele Museum took over the part-time educational output from a private interest and broadcast its services with assistance from its small video production studio. Cameras from Brian Reimers were used. METV by 1990 broadcast 10 hours a day in the clear, in opposition to MBC which broadcast encrypted. Programming was primarily donated from educational video tapes (educational programming produced in American Samoa and Greenpeace documentaries) and programming taped from KHET, the Hawaiian PBS station. Approximately 20-30% of the daily schedule (corresponding to 2-3 hours) was given to local programming produced by the station, covering local news and events, storytelling, public service announcements and Sunday church services in the Marshallese language. Coverage was limited t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majuro Atoll
Majuro (; Marshallese: ' ) is the capital and largest city of the Marshall Islands. It is also a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It forms a legislative district of the Ratak (Sunrise) Chain of the Marshall Islands. The atoll has a land area of and encloses a lagoon of . As with other atolls in the Marshall Islands, Majuro consists of narrow land masses. It has a tropical trade wind climate, with an average temperature of . Majuro has been inhabited by humans for at least 2,000 years and was first settled by the Austronesian ancestors of the modern day Marshallese people. In 1885, the Marshall Islands were annexed by the German Empire and Majuro became their first and primary trading post. The city has also been under Japanese and American administration. After the Marshall Islands broke away from the Federated States of Micronesia in 1978 to form the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Majuro became the new country's capital and meeting place of the NitijeÄ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
