Radio Télévision Guinéenne

Radio Télévision Guinéenne

Type	Broadcast
Country	Guinea
Availability	National
Owner	Government of Guinea
Launch date	Television: 1977

Radio Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) is a public broadcaster of the West African state of Guinea. Radio Télévision Guinéenne is headquartered in the capital city of Conakry.

Radio broadcasting in Guinea started in the colonial era, when the country was called French Guinea. Up until its independence, on 2 October 1958, the main activity of "radio banana" consisted in the broadast of warnings and messages of the large local commercial companies on the movements of boats transporting bananas or citrus fruits; after independence, "radio banana" became Radio Guinée. In 1962 the "Voix de la Révolution" was created, the organization responsible for managing radio, and the offer increased to two stations, one national and the other international, which however were merged in 1970, returning to being one. In May 1977 the first television channel started, which at the beginning was in black and white; color was introduced in 1982.

In 1984 the Voix de la Révolution became "Radio Télévision Guinéenne", and a general director was placed at the head of the organization. In January of the same year, a documentation and archive service was created in charge of collecting, processing and making available all the documents produced and received by RTG, and safeguarding the audiovisual heritage of the radio and television archives; archive management was computerized in 1990.

In August 1992 regional radio station RKS was created to serve the Conakry area within an 80 km radius.

In 2007, a Guinean Air Force MiG-21 departing from Conakry crashed into the Radio Television Guineenne headquarters. The Russian pilot ejected and was unharmed.

RTG is member of the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB).

External links

• Official website