NTA Kano

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NTA Kano
CountryNigeria
Broadcast areaKano State
HeadquartersKano, Nigeria
Programming
LanguagesEnglish, Hausa
Ownership
OwnerNigerian Television Authority
History
Launched17 October 1976 (1976-10-17)
Availability
Terrestrial
VHFChannel 5 (Kano)

NTA Kano is a Network Centre of the Nigerian Television Authority in Kano State. It replaced a relay station of Radio Kaduna Television upon the creation of new states and the NTA.

History

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Kano was formerly a part of the Northern Region, and was served by a relay station of Radio Kaduna Television, being installed in February 1963.[1] On 17 October 1976, NTV Kano started broadcasting (already in colour) on VHF channel 5 in Kano, channel 7 in Birnin Kudu and channel 8 in Arbus to cover the entire state, as well as parts of Borno and Bauchi. The signal was also receivable in parts of southern Niger via overspill.[1]

With the establishment of the Nigerian Television Authority in 1977, Kano was placed inside Zone D, together with NTA Kaduna and NTA Jos (the former Benue-Plateau Television) with Kaduna being the regional Zonal Network Centre. As of 1979, NTA Kaduna still produced a weekly half-hour programme aiming at Kano, Focus on Kano State.[1]

In the early 1980s, the station gained new studios and new trained equipment, in order to produce programmes for the Network Service, as well as content exchange with other NTA stations.[2] Between 2 October 1977 and 6 June 2003, the station aired 1,176 Hindi films, the first of which being Ann Bonn.[3]

The station installed a new transmitter in December 2000.[4] Plans were enacted in September 2008 to urge the station to become a Network Centre.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "TWENTY YEARS OF NIGERIAN TELEVISION: 1959-1979" (PDF). University of North Texas. August 1981. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  2. ^ "THE ROLE OF TELEVISION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA" (PDF). University of North Texas. August 1983. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  3. ^ Abdalla, U. A. (2006). Loud Bubbles from a Silent Brook: Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary Hausa Prose Writing. Research in African Literatures, 37(3), 133-153.
  4. ^ Nigeria: New digital transmitter received in Kano. (2000, Dec 15). BBC Monitoring Media
  5. ^ Nigeria: Kano government asks state TV to set up regional centre. (2008, Sep 29). BBC Monitoring Media
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