African Renaissance Television Services (ARTS TV) is an Ethiopian
free-to-air
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entertainment, and news television channel based in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ARTS TV was created to provide Ethiopia with a television station with no party affiliation and an
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
-centric point of view, looking at the continent's culture, history, arts, politics, and news.
ARTS TV creates productions and broadcasts programming primarily in
Amharic
Amharic ( or ; (Amharic: ), ', ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all oth ...
with the company working on complementary
English
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* English language
* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
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support. It has its studios located in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and has a digital presence based on productions that it generates from in-house sources and from its subsidiary company African Renaissance Television Service, Inc. based in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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History
ARTS TV was initially founded in 2016 by twenty-two Ethiopians that include athletes, celebrities, educators, physicians, attorneys, and international CEOs. The company was created initially to produce and broadcast media focused on the cultures, politics, art, food, fashion, and news of Africa.
References
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Television channels in Ethiopia
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Satellite television