Television in Ethiopia was introduced in 1962 with the government owned

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. Color television started in 1979 on an experiment basis with regular transmissions starting in 1984 to commemorate the founding of

Workers' Party of Ethiopia The Workers' Party of Ethiopia ( am, የኢትዮጵያ ሠራተኞች ፓርቲ, Ye'Ityopia Serategnoch Parti, WPE) was a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991 led by General Secretary Mengistu Haile Mariam. The Wo ...

(WPE).

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

got its first private television broadcaster in 2008 with EBS TV, a US based satellite TV channel mostly focused on infotainment. Ethiopian Television

Until very recently there was only one private station with most of the stations being state owned. However, emphasis on liberalization of the TV market eventually led to a wave of privately owned stations coming about recent years. In 2014 the Oromo diaspora launched the one and only television; Oromia Media Network, based in US OMN. In 2016 and 2017, more private broadcasters such as the news centered

ENN TV Ethiopian News Network (ENN TV) was an Ethiopian television channel based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The channel was launched in 2016 on Nilesat. It was the first private station based in Ethiopia to be focused on news and politics outside of the ...

and others like LTV Ethiopia,

Kana TV Kana TV () is an Ethiopian satellite television channel owned by Dubai-based Moby Group. It was co-founded by three Ethiopian entrepreneurs in combination with Moby Media Group and was officially launched on April 4, 2016. Kana TV produces voice- ...

, EOTC TV all joined the market.

Dimtsi Weyane Dimtsi Weyane (DW or DW TV, also spelled Dimtsi Woyane; ti, ድምፂ ወያነ, lit=Voice of the Revolution) is an Ethiopian news-based television and radio network headquartered in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. Owned by Dimtsi Weyane Tigray P. ...

and were launched at the end 2018. 7 million households in Ethiopia has at least one television set and about 55 percent of the population has access to the watch television in there homes.

History

The national public broadcaster EBC (formerly ERTA) started broadcasting in 1962 as the first television station in Ethiopia. In the last couple of the decades the broadcaster had opened multiple regional stations and channels broadcasting in various languages. Privatization of the television industry was a slow process with the first privately run broadcaster, EBS TV, launching in 2008. However, 2016 and 2017 saw a wave of private station entering the market including what became the most popular channel,

, to increase the total number of private station's in Ethiopia to 45. In 2016 the government of Ethiopia announced it would be transition the country from analog to digital platform. The American company

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History

TV stations

Government-owned television stations

Digital cable services

Privately owned TV stations

Religious broadcasters

Weekly market share

Top 10 programs (March 2017)

See also

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