The Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina is the national broadcaster of the West African state of

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

. Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina is headquartered in the capital city

Ouagadougou Ouagadougou or Wagadugu (, , , ) is the capital city of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation. It is also the List of cities in Burkina Faso#Largest cities, country's largest city, wi ...

. Generaldirector (CEO) of RTB is Marcel Toé.

History

At the time, RTV started broadcasting on 12 October 1959, with programmes in French and 13 other languages. It would air for at least 82 hours per week with culture and science programmes. With equipments from France, television started broadcasting in August 1963 as VoltaVision and it broadcasts 4 hours per week during the first few years. Programmes on the service were either made in their country, or imported from France, Germany and the United States. Television broadcasts were suspended in January 1966, but were restored at an unknown date. During the 2014 uprising, protesters stormed the building of the RTB, seized the technical equipment and stopped broadcasts of the TVB and RB. At the

January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état A coup d'état was launched in Burkina Faso on 24 January 2022. Gunfire erupted in front of the presidential residence in the Burkinabé capital Ouagadougou and several military barracks around the city. Soldiers were reported to have seized ...

the mutinous soldiers declared on RTB television on 24 January 2022, that a military junta of Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and his "

Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration The Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration (PMSR) has been the ruling military junta of Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the sou ...

" had seized control of Burkina Faso. On the same year, eight months later, (see

September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état A coup d'état took place in Burkina Faso on 30 September 2022, removing Interim President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba over his alleged inability to deal with the country's Islamist insurgency. Damiba had come to power in a coup d'état eigh ...

) RTB television stopped broadcasting for hours until a group of soldiers, led by

Ibrahim Traoré Ibrahim Traoré (; born 14 March 1988) is a Burkinabé military officer and politician who has served as the interim President of Burkina Faso since 2022. Traoré took control of Burkina Faso in September 2022, ousting interim president Pa ...

, announced the fall of Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba due to his inability to deal with

jihadism Jihadism is a neologism for modern, armed militant Political aspects of Islam, Islamic movements that seek to Islamic state, establish states based on Islamic principles. In a narrower sense, it refers to the belief that armed confrontation ...

in the country, they also announced a curfew, the suspension of all political and civil society activities, of the

Constitution of Burkina Faso The Constitution of Burkina Faso was approved by referendum on 2 June 1991, formally adopted 11 June 1991 and last amended in January 2002. The last amendment abolished the upper chamber of the parliament, the Chamber of Representatives. In 2 ...

and closed all air and land borders.

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