Radio Televisão Timor Leste

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Radio Televisão Timor Leste

Radio Televisão Timor Leste ( RTTL ; German: Rundfunk Osttimor ) is the state broadcasting company of East Timor .

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The Presidents of the RTTL Executive Board are appointed by the government for four years. In January 2019 there was a scandal when the previous President Gil da Costa was dismissed after an audit in October 2018 and replaced by Francisco da Silva Gary . Costa blamed political reasons for trying to reduce political influence on the state broadcaster.

President of RTTL
Surname Term of office Remarks
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Milena Abrantes 2014 - January 28, 2018
Gil da Costa Naldo Rei February 1, 2018 - January 2019 Appointment: January 25, 2018; Swearing in February 1, 2018
prematurely dismissed
Francisco da Silva Gary since January 2019

Radio

Logo from RTL

The radio program runs under the name Radio Timor-Leste (RTL). 34 programs in Portuguese , Tetum and Bahasa Indonesia are broadcast 16 hours a day. Seven percent of the radio program comes from external sources, the rest is produced by our own 57 employees.

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Televisão de Timor Leste (TVTL; in Portuguese), or Televizaun Timor Lorosae (in Tetum), is the television branch of RTTL. In addition to programs it has produced itself, TVTL offers news from the Portuguese RTP Internacional , ABC's Australian Australia Network and the BBC's British World News . In September 2008 a collaboration was agreed with the Brazilian TV Globo .

In-house productions

RTTL building in Dili

Own productions often serve to further educate the local population. A cartoon series on the history of East Timor and a soap opera dealing with family planning were produced.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c LUSA: Ex-presidente da televisão publica timorense diz que foi exonerado por motivos políticos , January 21, 2019 , accessed on January 22, 2019.
  2. Timor Agora: Gil da Costa Lidera Fali RTTL, ep , January 27, 2018 , accessed on January 22, 2019.
  3. RTTL (on Asia Pacific Report): Sacked head of Timor-Leste state broadcaster claims 'political ax' , January 22, 2019 , accessed on January 18, 2020.
  4. LUSA: Globo oferece pacote de programação gratuito à TV timorense , September 17, 2008 ( Memento of the original of January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.portalctb.org.br
  5. ^ UN News Center, March 20, 2009, Timor-Leste and UN launch radio soap opera on reproductive health