''The Daily Times'' is a daily newspaper published in

Blantyre Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, L ...

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

. It is the oldest newspaper in the country, founded by the monthly ''Central African Planter'' in 1895. Around 1900, the title ''Central African Times'' was adopted, and weekly publication. Later the title was changed again, to ''Nyasaland Times''. With Malawian independence in 1964, it became simply ''The Times'' (then published bi-weekly), and finally the ''Daily Times'' in 1972. The publisher is Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), a subsidiary of Blantyre Printing & Publishing Company Ltd., which publishes four sister newspapers: ''The Daily Times'' (Monday-Friday), and the weeklies ''The Weekend Times'' (Friday afternoon), ''Malawi News'' (Saturday), and ''Sunday Times'' (Sunday). In the year 2013, Blantyre Printing & Publishing Company Ltd, took a bold step to establish Malawi’s first independent privat
television station
Times Television (TTV). Th
MISA
award winning TV station has for years been providing local content, stretching over arts, entertainment, sports and current affairs. Times Television is a Free-To-Air television station and is beamed on

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channel 296
Malawi Digital Broadcasting Network Limited
(MDBNL) Platform CH 805, GoTV CH 91
Zuku CH 46Azam TV CH 381
and

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. In 2015, Blantyre Printing & Publishing Company Ltd established Times Radio, a sister company of Times Television. Times Radio broadcasts nationwide with most of the programs being broadcast in

chichewa Chewa (also known as Nyanja, ) is a Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast and East Africa, namely the countries of Malawi , where it is an official language, and Mozambique and Zambia. The noun class prefix ''chi-'' is used for la ...

. On 29 July 2020, Times Radio had a mix up with a UK based radio station during their interview with

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. Blantyre Printing & Publishing Company Ltd is a 360 degree media house consisting of Times Radio Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) and Times Television. The media house now called "Times 360".

Notable contributors (past and present)

Raphael Tenthani Raphael "Ralph" Tenthani (1 October 1971 – 16 May 2015) was a freelance journalist from Malawi. Tenthani was a BBC correspondent and a columnist for The Sunday Times. He was a respected journalist in Malawi well known for his popular column, "T ...

, journalist, columnist

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daily Times Publications established in 1895 Newspapers published in Malawi Mass media in Blantyre 1895 establishments in the British Central Africa Protectorate English-language newspapers published in Africa