RTA Herat
{{Short description|Afghan state owned television broadcaster}}
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| launch_date = February 1985
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| owner = Radio Television Afghanistan
| country = Afghanistan
| area = Herat
| headquarters = Herat
| former_names =
| sister_channels = RTA Sport
RTA News
RTA Education
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| website = {{URL|rta.af}}
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RTA Herat is a relay station of Afghanistan National Television. The station broadcasts in Herat Province in western Afghanistan.
History
The station was commissioned in 1983,[https://books.google.com/books?id=V2GxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Besides+the+one+in+Kabul+,+three+more+have+been+operating+since%22 Foreign Report, 1985] beginning its broadcasts in February 1985.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2FXHAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+station+in+Ghazni+was+opened+on+the+3rd+of+February+1985+;+it+received%22 |title=Afghanistan: A Decade of Sovietisation |author=S. M. Y. Elmi |date=1988 |access-date=31 January 2021 }} The station was taken off the air in 1996 by the order of the Taliban.{{cite news |title=Bombardeio intenso sobre Kandahar |url=http://jornalnacional.globo.com/Telejornais/JN/0,,MUL539134-10406,00-BOMBARDEIO+INTENSO+SOBRE+KANDAHAR.html |access-date=30 November 2016 |work=Jornal Nacional |date=29 November 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201143459/http://jornalnacional.globo.com/Telejornais/JN/0,,MUL539134-10406,00-BOMBARDEIO+INTENSO+SOBRE+KANDAHAR.html |archive-date=1 December 2016 |language=pt-br}} From the beginning, it operated on VHF channel 7.2005 World Radio and Television Handbook, page 633
The station returned to the air on November 29, 2001, alongside all stations shut down in 1996 except Badakhshan. The Herat station restarted in a precarious manner, broadcasting for no less than three hours a day. The first news report was about the first local elections in 30 years, won by a former diplomat and Taliban representative. A few weeks later on January 14, 2002, the station received a technical boost from Iranian technicians, who in addition allowed the cross-border to rebroadcast of three over-the-air IRIB networks.{{cite news |title=Iran Report: January 21, 2002 |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1342766.html |access-date=8 November 2024 |work=Radio Liberty |date=21 January 2002}}
On May 15, 2008, a journalist working at the station, Nilofer Habibi, was attacked.{{cite news |title=Female Journalist beaten up in western Herat |url=http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2008/05/14/female-journalist-beaten-up-in-western-herat.html |access-date=8 November 2024 |work=RAWA News |date=14 May 2008}}{{cite news |title=IFJ Demands Protection and Legal Representation for Afghanistan Journalists |url=https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/europe/article/ifj-demands-protection-and-legal-representation-for-afghanistan-journalists |access-date=8 November 2024 |work=International Federation of Journalists |date=19 May 2008}}
References
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{{Television stations in Afghanistan}}
Category:Television stations in Afghanistan
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1985