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Baba TV
'' (short for Basoga Baino Television) is a television channel in

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

with viewership primarily concentrated in the country's eastern and central regions. It maintains studios in Jinja City and

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

. It airs programming in

Lusoga Soga, or Lusoga, is a Bantu language spoken by the Soga people of the Busoga region in Eastern Uganda. With over three million speakers, it is one of the major languages of Uganda, after English, Swahili, and Luganda. However, it is largely re ...

Luganda The Ganda language or Luganda (, , ) is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 10 million Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda including ...

, and English.

History

Baba TV began broadcasting in August 2017 and is owned by Moses Grace Balyeku, former member of

Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

for Jinja West. In 2019, Baba TV launched on

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in Uganda. The station was launched on

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, the only digital platform that did not include it, in 2021. On 27 July 2020, 2020, journalist Basajja Mivule, who hosted the political talk show ''Fumitiriza'' (Reflect) on Baba TV, was arrested at the Kampala studios; it was noted that he was critical of President

Yoweri Museveni Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and retired senior military officer who has been the 9th and current President of Uganda since 26 January 1986. Museveni spearheaded rebellions with aid of then ...

. Mivule was later suspended from the station.

References

{{reflist 2017 establishments in Uganda Television channels and stations established in 2017 Television stations in Uganda