Radio Television Afghanistan
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| Type | Broadcast radio, television and online |
|---|---|
| Availability |
National International |
| Owner | President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai |
Launch date |
1925 (radio) 1974 (television) |
Official website | http://www.rta.org.af/ |
Radio Television Afghanistan (often known as 'Millie' in Afghanistan) is an Afghan broadcasting organization. This governmental organ has a national TV station, RTA (which carries the same name as the organization). It also has one radio station, Radio Afghanistan.
It used to have a second channel called Afghanistan National Television (ANTV), which was merged with RTA in 2010.
Radio Afghanistan started with Radio Kabul in 1925 (1304 by the Iranian calendar), during the era of King Amanullah Khan, two radio transmitters with the capacity of 400 watt were procured from the German company of Telefunken, one of those has been installed on Koti Londoni near the bridge of Artel which subsequently started to its operation and the second one had been transferred to Kandahar which on that period the musical programs and news were only being broadcast for few hours.
Radio Television Afghanistan has a number of provincial sub-stations which operate radio services, and in some provinces, basic television at a provincial level. They broadcast material produced at provincial level, interspersed with news bulletins distributed by the Kabul-based news desk. These stations are usually closely affiliated with the Provincial Governors' Offices. Broadcast content includes high volumes of government messaging'
Provinces
RTA TV in other provinces of Afghanistan:
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Badakhshan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Badghis Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Baghlan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Balkh Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Bamiyan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Daykundi Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Farah Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Faryab Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Ghazni Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Ghor Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Helmand Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Herat Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Jowzjan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Kandahar Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Kapisa Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Khost Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Kunar Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Kunduz Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Laghman Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Logar Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Nangarhar Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Nimruz Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Nuristan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Paktia Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Panjshir Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Parwan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Samangan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Sar-e-Pol Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Takhar Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Uruzgan Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Wardak Province
- Radio-Television Afghanistan (RTA), Zabul Province