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Before the independence of Eritrea, Ethiopia's ETV had planned to build a transmitter in Asmara with a tentative opening date scheduled for December 1976, on VHF channel 5 with an ERP of 1kW. [1] After the referendum that led to its independence, Eri-TV was created in January 1993, with the help of Canadian technicians. [2]
The media in Eritrea played a role in its war against Ethiopia. Independent Eritrea has one of the harshest media regimes, with private and foreign ownership being banned since the early 2000s. As of 2018, the government controlled four newspapers, one television channel and two radio stations.
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Tigrai Television (ቴሌቪዥን ትግራይ), also known as Tigrai TV and Tigrai Mass Media Agency, is a television, digital media, radio, and newspaper news organization owned by the Tigray Region government in Ethiopia. Tigray TV was first established on July 31, 1991, as part of Ethiopian Television, now known as the Ethiopian ...
Ethiopia got its first private television broadcaster in 2008 with EBS TV, a US based satellite TV channel mostly focused on infotainment. The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation headquarter in 2008 Until very recently there was only one private station with most of the stations being state owned.
The majority of the programming is broadcast in Amharic, official languages of Ethiopia. [5] Some news segments are broadcast in other languages, such as Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya, Afar, and English. [6] EBC has entertainment programs like Ethiopian Idol, which features similar content to American talent show American Idol.
Almost 40 percent of women in Eritrea are married by their 21st birthday. Limited access to education is associated with the high prevalence of child marriage in Eritrea. 64% of women aged 20–24 with no education and 53% with primary education were married by 21 years old, compared to just 12% of women with secondary education or higher. [12]
Vanessa Tsehaye was born to Eritrean parents in 1996 in Sweden, where she grew up. [2] In 2001, Vanessa was told about the arrest of her maternal uncle Seyoum Tsehaye, [4] a former head of Eritrean public television Eri-TV.