Television in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

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The television in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland took in 1960 began broadcasting on and was by Nigerian Western Nigerian Television Service and Eastern Nigerian Television Service , the third regular TV channels in sub-Saharan Africa .

Emergence

With the founding of the Federal Broadcasting Corporation (FBC), the state national broadcaster of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland , in 1957, plans began for the introduction of television in the state that was formed in 1953. A system based on the model of British Independent Television was planned : the FBC would only operate the technical infrastructure, while the content would be produced by one or more private companies. The content providers should finance themselves through advertising and pay a cost-covering fee to the FBC for broadcasting their programs or help finance the construction of the necessary infrastructure.

Rhodesian TeleVision (Pvt) Ltd., founded by several domestic and foreign companies . (RTV) was awarded the contract as a program company in 1959. The fifteen-year contracts concluded in February 1960 guaranteed the FBC extensive say in the design of the program, so a maximum proportion of time was set for advertising as well as a minimum for domestic productions and educational programs , and television should gradually be guaranteed in ever larger areas of the country be received. The start of broadcasting was scheduled for the end of 1960.

business

In the summer of 1960, the Philips company set up the transmission systems (antenna height 61 m) with a power of 4 kW six and a half kilometers northeast of the city center of Salisbury at an altitude of 1570 m. Which also was on schedule, according to the transmission operation began on 15 November 1960 used the UK used CCIR norm of 625 lines. The broadcast was on weekdays from 6 p.m. to 10.15 p.m., Saturdays from 6.15 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Sundays from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The range exceeded expectations, good reception was assumed within a radius of 12 km and moderate reception within a 40 km radius, in fact the program could still be received at a distance of 100 km. A few months earlier than planned, a second transmitter (0.6 kW) was put into operation in Bulawayo in the summer of 1961 . The first transmitter in Northern Rhodesia in Kitwe also went into operation earlier than planned in 1961 . By April 1961, Salisbury had registered more than 7,000 televisions . The Protectorate of Nyasaland , where only a few thousand Europeans lived, did not receive a transmitter.

resolution

The dissolution of the federation in 1963 and the independence of its individual states in 1964 also ended the joint television service: In Northern Rhodesia, the television station was taken over by the newly established Zambia Broadcasting Corporation , and its own television program began in 1965. In Southern Rhodesia, RTV was acquired by the state broadcaster Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation in 1964 bought up and thus transferred television into a state monopoly. In Malawi television was not due to be introduced until 1999.

literature

  • WV Brelsford (Ed.): Handbook to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Cassell, London 1960.
  • Harald Voss: Radio and television in Africa. Verlag Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst, Cologne 1962.
  • R. Kent Rasmussen (Ed.): Historical dictionary of Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. (= African Historical Dictionaries. Volume 18). Scarecrow Press, Metuchen 1979, ISBN 0-8108-1187-1 .
  • JM Reeves: Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Introduction of Television. In: EBU Review. No. 65A, February 1961, ISSN  1019-6587 , pp. 31-33.

Single receipts

  1. ^ Harald Voss: Radio and television in Africa. Verlag Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst, Cologne 1962, pp. 102, 105, 122.
  2. ^ Harald Voss: Radio and television in Africa. Verlag Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst, Cologne 1962, p. 123f.
  3. ^ Harald Voss: Radio and television in Africa. Verlag Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst, Cologne 1962, p. 123f.
  4. ↑ WV Brelsford (eds.): Handbook to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Cassell, London 1960, p. 553.
  5. ↑ WV Brelsford (eds.): Handbook to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Cassell, London 1960, p. 554.
  6. ↑ Hartmut Deckelmann: Television in Africa. Cultural Imperialism or Education for the Masses? Dialogus Mundi, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-921862-39-6 , p. 45.
  7. ^ Harald Voss: Radio and television in Africa. Verlag Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst, Cologne 1962, p. 125f.
  8. ^ R. Kent Rasmussen (Ed.): Historical dictionary of Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. (= African Historical Dictionaries. Volume 18). Scarecrow Press, Metuchen 1979, ISBN 0-8108-1187-1 , p. 272.
  9. ^ Europa Publications (Ed.): The Europa World Year Book 2008. Routledge, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-1187-4 , p. 2930.