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Nigerian Television Authority, Benin Office. The Nigerian Television Authority or NTA is a Nigerian government-owned and partly commercial broadcast station. [1] Originally known as Nigerian Television (NTV), it was inaugurated in 1977 with a monopoly on national television broadcasting, after a takeover of regional television stations by military governmental authorities in 1976.
Nigeria was one of the first countries to introduce television broadcasting in Africa. Nigeria also has the largest terrestrial television network in Africa which is the Nigerian Television Authority (with over 96 stations scattered around the country). [2] As of 2010, 40% of Nigerian population had television in their homes. This is a list of ...
NTA Lagos is a Zonal Network Centre of the Nigerian Television Authority in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city.It was established in 1962 as the first station under the federal government - all other television stations in Nigeria were set up under the individual state governments.
NTA2 came to be in 1980 over a dispute between the Nigerian Television Authority and Lagos Television over possible VHF frequencies to be used. The NTA strongly opposed the plans of the state government to set up a television station on channel 5. Ultimately the NTA remained on channel 5 while Lagos Television was relocated to channel 8. [1]
A signpost of Nigeria Television Authority in Minna. The largest broadcasting companies are the government-owned Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) [11] and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). [12] The NTA has two television services, one is NTA 1, which is distributed among NTA's six television zones.
NTA Enugu is a television station under the Nigerian Television Authority network, located in Enugu, the capital of Enugu State. It was established post-Nigerian Civil War as the successor to the Eastern Nigeria Television (ENTV). As a pioneer in Nigerian broadcasting, ENTV's slogan was "Second to None," reflecting its status following the ...
With the creation of the current Nigerian Television Authority, NTA Benin was the head station of zone B, which also comprised other stations in south-central Nigeria, in Akure, Owerri and Port Harcourt. [2] By the mid-1980s, NTA Benin only had two cameras. [3]
The takeover of Nigeria by a new Federal Military Government in 1977 reorganized all of the existing television stations and incorporated them to the current Nigerian Television Authority. [1] Jos was integrated into Zone D, encompassing central-northern Nigeria, which also included Kano and Kaduna. [ 4 ]