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| Country | Djibouti |
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| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Djibouti City, Djibouti |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Somali, Afar, Arabic, French |
| Picture format | 4:3 (576i, SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Government of Djibouti |
| History | |
| Launched | 1966 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
Radio Television of Djibouti (RTD) (Arabic: إذاعة وتلفزيون جيبوتي, French: Radiodiffusion télévision de Djibouti) is the national broadcaster of Djibouti. The station is based in Djibouti city and the only media outlet of the country. RTD broadcasts in Arabic, French, Afar and Somali. The in-house band of RTD is Groupe RTD.[1]
In addition to RTD, the country's government does not allow any other broadcasters. According to Reporters Without Borders, RTD is used for government propaganda. The opposition broadcaster La Voix de Djibouti broadcast for ten years as an online radio from Belgium, in June 2020 it resumed terrestrial broadcasting on a rented station from Bulgaria via shortwave.[2][3]
RTD operates a powerful medium wave transmitter that broadcasts the Arabic-language US-governmental program Radio Sawa for all of East Africa.
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- ^ "Djibouti profile - Media". BBC News. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "La Voix de Djibouti bleibt abgeschaltet". www.radioeins.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-01-06.