Ethiopia All TV Channel Lists FTA Satellite

Television in Ethiopia was introduced in 1962 with the government owned ETV. Color television was introduced in 1984 to commemorate the founding of Workers’ Party of Ethiopia (WPE). Ethiopia got its first private Television Broadcaster in 2008 with EBS TV, a US based satellite TV channel Biss Keys mostly focused on infotainment.

Until very recently there was only 1 private station with most of the stations being state owned. However, emphasis on liberalization of the TV market eventually led to a wave of privately owned stations coming about recent years. In 2016 and 2017, more private broadcasters such as the news centered ENN TV and others like LTV Ethiopia, Fana TV, EOTC TV Biss Keys all joined the market. Dimtse Woyane and were launched at the end 2018. 7 million households in Ethiopia has at list one television set and about 55 percent of the population has access to the watch television in there homes.

Television in Ethiopia

The National public broadcaster EBC Daily Feeds (formerly ERTA) started broadcasting in 1962 as the first television station in Ethiopia. In the last couple of the decades the broadcaster had opened multiple regional stations and channels broadcasting in various languages. Privatization of the television industry was a slow process with the first privately run broadcaster, EBS TV, launching in 2008. However, 2016 and 2017 saw a wave of private station entering the market including what became the most popular channel, Kana TV, to increase the total number of private station’s in Ethiopia to 45.

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In 2016 the government of Ethiopia Biss Keys announced it would be transition the country from analog to digital platform. The American company GatesAir won the contract for the project that will take 5–10 years to fully complete.

Ethiopian Satellite Television (known as ESAT) is an Ethiopian satellite news network headquartered in Washington D.C., United States. It is a nonprofit and independent media outlet mostly privately funded by donors from the broader Ethiopian Biss Keys diaspora.

The channel was founded on April 24, 2010 by a group of exiled Ethiopian journalists in Washington D.C. with the objective of providing free access to news and information to Ethiopians at home and abroad.