Télé Tchad is the state television channel in the central African country of Chad.
Télé Tchad is operated by ONRTV which is the state national radio and television broadcaster.
Télé Tchad broadcasts in French and maybe a local language or two a mixture of programming alot of talk shows,cultural and local style musical programming, but I guess it also has a few news broadcasts.
The satellite signal is very weak for me here in South Wales so I have not spent alot of time watching it.
The signal is lost for me past around 12pm BST so I am unsure what time they actually start broadcasting, although I do know they close around 12am local time, which is also my night so signal level improves.
Télé Tchad has a high power transmitter in the capital N'Djamena on VHF Channel 7 with a radiated power of 50 kW's and also has local relays across the country.
Télé Tchad can also be seen on satellite in North Africa, Middle East and Southern Europe easily on the Nilesat 101 satellite at 7°W, the satellite can also be received in most of Europe with a large enough dish.
The channels mascot is a Grey Crowned Crane which can be found in Chad.
Hes featured in alot of places including the channels digital on screen graphic / bug.
ONRTV stands for L’Office National de Radiodiffusion et TéléVision du Tchad which translates to The Office of National Radio and Television of Chad.
ONRTV have a monopoly on television in the country I believe.
The History
Télé Tchad was set-up in 1987 making it one of most recently established national television channels in Africa, little else I know.
The Video
I guess this video is obvious, although I do like the final ident with the 3D logo with the Flag of Chad draped around and removed to real the logo.
I'm glad to be back, thanks for being so patient and I hope you all enjoy....
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Télé Tchad
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Hi, Pat
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you had been away (shows how much _I've_ been keeping up with things lately!) -- but I'm glad you're back.
I think the Télé Tchad sequence shows definite French influence: i.e. "if any visual effect is technically possible, then use it" :-) As a long-time follower of French TV intros and outros, the one thing I think you can definitely say about the Gallic style is that they do love to be tricksy!
May I make one complaint, however? What's with this "12pm", "12am" notation? Nobody knows precisely what those terms mean (just look at the adverts in your local paper) -- so please let us have 12.00 for midday, and 24.00 for midnight finish / 0.00 for midnight start, as befits those of us - serious observers of the international broadcasting scene- who do know how to count beyond 12!
Hmm good point about using that system, personally I thought it be pretty obvious 12am would be midnight o.
ReplyDeleteAnyway thanks for the comment I will start using 24 hour clock, also got me thinking would using UTC be better?
Cheers
Thanks for taking my suggestion in good part :)
ReplyDelete>>I thought it be pretty obvious 12am would be midnight<<
It's true that 12am = 12 hours ante meridiem (i.e. before noon), and therefore midnight -- but then midnight can just as validly be expressed as 12 hours _after_ noon (i.e. post meridiem, pm). And midday itself, of course, can be neither 12 hours _before_ nor 12 hours _after_ noon!
As for using UTC: yes, I'd say that's a good idea. It's probably best not to refer to BST ("British Summer Time", i.e. West European Summer Time, or UTC+1) as the abbreviation BST is generally not understood outside the UK (even in Ireland it's IST!). Thus you'd write something like:
>>The signal is lost for me past around 13.00 UTC so I am unsure what time they actually start broadcasting, although I do know they close around midnight local time<<
More than that mate with UTC I mean all times listed in general converting the local time when something airs in whatever country to UTC.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestions.
Yes, I meant that too. It's just that local time sometimes merits a mention too, when it's part of what you might call the cultural context: e.g. "Ruritanischer Rundfunk's evening transmissions normally begin with the six o'clock Angelus from Strelsau Cathedral (at 16.00 UTC)".
ReplyDeleteOkay that's what I will do list local time in 24 hour clock and also list UTC for comparison.
ReplyDeleteAlso that example is quite a jumble of stuff :)