NTA Port Harcourt
NTA Port Harcourt is the Nigerian Television Authority regional centre for the state of Rivers in south-central Nigeria, headquartered in its capital Port Harcourt. It is also the zonal network centre for the area. The station broadcasts on VHF channel 10.{{cite book |title=National Education, Training and Research Directory: NETRED. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/National_Education_Training_and_Research/kYkrAQAAIAAJ |access-date=6 December 2024 |date=2003 | publisher=International Network of Directories & Astate Associate Limited }}
History
NTA Port Harcourt's origins date back to the signal expansion of Eastern Nigeria Television (ENTV) in the 1960s; the station was limited up until then to Enugu. New states were created in 1967, causing the creation of Rivers State. The independent station for Rivers state brgan broadcasting on December 31, 1974. With the creation of the Nigerian Television Authority, the local station was inserted in zone B together with Benin, Aba-Owerri and Akure; it still received spillover from NTA Calabar in the early 80s.{{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}}
By 1983, NTA Port Harcourt was one of the most developed stations in the network, and produced 80% of the programmes it aired.{{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}}
In the early 1980s, the station reported on oil spillings in Rivers State; however, the reporter was arrested.{{cite news |title=You Report Oil Spillage on Nigerian TV, You Go to Jail |url=https://africaoilgasreport.com/2023/02/in-the-news/you-report-oil-spillage-on-nigerian-tv-you-go-to-jail/ |work=Africa Oil+Gas Report}}
In the 1980s, it produced the horror series Willi-Willi for the Network Service.{{cite news |title=Nigeria: A Flashback On Nigeria TV Series and Soaps |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201305130488.html |work=AllAfrica |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329002418/https://allafrica.com/stories/201305130488.html |archive-date=29 March 2015}}