Mass media in Tanzania

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Mass media in Tanzania includes print, radio, television, and the Internet. The "Tanzania Communications Regulatory Act" of 2003 created the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority, which oversees broadcast licensing.^[1] The Media Council of Tanzania began in 1995.^[1]

Publications

Radio

• Fasihi Media House
• Clouds FM^[2]
• East Africa Radio
• Kiss FM^[2]
• Wasafi Fm
• Praise Power FM
• Choice FM ^[3]
• Mbeya Highlands FM
• Orkonerei Radio Service^[2]
• Parapanda Radio Tanzania^[2]
• Radio Free Africa^[2]
• Radio One^[4]
• Radio Tanzania^[4]
• Radio Tanzania Zanzibar^[4]
• Radio Tumaini^[4]
• Radio Uhuru^[2]
• Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation^[2]
• Voice of Tanzania-Zanzibar^[2]
• Radio Karagwe FM - Sauti ya Wananchi.KARAGWE-KAGERA

Television

"State TV Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation known as TBC launched in 2001, several years after the first private station.^[2]

Current TV networks and stations include:

• East Africa Tv
• Mambo Tv Swahili
• Clouds Tv
• Wasafi Tv
• Ebenezer TV
• Barmedas TV
• TV E
• Al Itrah Broadcasting Network Television (IBN TV)
• Coastal Television Network^[2]
• Dar es Salaam Television^[2]
• Independent Television^[2]
• Kwanza TV ^[5]
• Star TV^[2]
• Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation
• Televishini ya Taifa (TVT)^[6]
• TV1 (Tanzania)
• TVZ (TV Zanzibar)^[2]
• MAHAASIN TV

See also

• Telecommunications in Tanzania
• Tanzanian literature

References

Bibliography

• Graham L. Mytton (1968). "Tanzania: the Problems of Mass Media Development". Gazette. 14 (2): 89–100. doi:10.1177/001654926801400204.
• Dele Ogunade (1986). "Mass Media Systems of Kenya and Tanzania: a Comparative Analysis". Africa Media Review. 1 (1) – via Michigan State University Libraries, African e-Journals Project.
• "Tanzania: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. p. 1083. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896. (Includes information about radio, newspapers, etc.)
• Toyin Falola; Daniel Jean-Jacques, eds. (2015). "Tanzania: Media". Africa: an Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-666-9.
• "Tanzania", Freedom of the Press, USA: Freedom House, 2016
• "Licence to blog", BBC News, 24 April 2018 ("Bloggers in Tanzania will have to pay $920 (£660) for the privilege of posting content online, according to new regulations.")

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