NTA Benin
NTA Benin is a Zonal Network Centre of the Nigerian Television Authority. The station broadcasts from Benin City, Edo State.
History
NTA Benin started broadcasts in April 1973 as the Bendel State Television Service. As of the early 1980s, the station was engaged in the creation of educational programmes for schools, while 70% of its output in 1981 was local.{{cite web |title=Twenty years of Nigerian television: 1959-1979 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/71148648.pdf |access-date=6 January 2024 |website=University of North Texas|date=August 1981 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106141344/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/71148648.pdf |archive-date=6 January 2024| format=pdf}}
With the creation of the current Nigerian Television Authority, NTA Benin was the head station of zone B, which also comprised other stations in south-central Nigeria, in Akure, Owerri and Port Harcourt.{{cite web |title=The role of television in the development of Nigeria |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504126/m2/1/high_res_d/1002775653-Onwumere.pdf |access-date=6 January 2024 |website=University of North Texas|date=August 1983 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106141854/https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504126/m2/1/high_res_d/1002775653-Onwumere.pdf |archive-date=6 January 2024 | format=pdf}}
By the mid-1980s, NTA Benin only had two cameras.{{cite journal |author1=Lyons, A. P |author2=Lyons, H. D. |title=Magical medicine on television: Benin City, Nigeria |journal=Journal of Ritual Studies |date=1987 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=103–136 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/44368322}}