RTC (Cape Verde)

Radiotelevisão Caboverdiana

Type	Public
Industry	Television, Radio
Founded	1. August 1997
Headquarters	Praia, Cape Verde
Key people	Horácio Moreira Semedo
Owner	Government of Cape Verde
Website	www.rtc.cv

The Radiotelevisão Caboverdiana is Cape Verde's first radio and television station broadcasting local programs from Cape Verde, Portugal and Brazil as well as the rest of the world. It is a publicly owned company and enterprise and is located in the Capeverdean capital city of Praia and has a few buildings. The building size is very small, only like local affiliates in North America as well as Latin America, Australia and Europe.

The station also broadcasts news, sports, television shows and recently broadcasts football or soccer coverages from Portugal and also from Brazil as well as Latin America but rarely around the world. The TV channel is branded as TCV and it is also available in Portugal in the principal cable and IPTV platforms as a premium channel under the name TCV Internacional.

History and information

The radio services in Cape Verde began in the 1950s making it the first in the nation, it began broadcasting news, sporting events including soccer games from the nation and Cape Verde, in the late-20th century, a television channel were added and is the first in all of Cape Verde and broadcast a few programs, sporting events, documentaries and more.

It had broadcast the World Cup games in which is one of the few international games seen, there were no international coverages except for the African sporting events until the 2000s.

Website

Official website of the Radiotelevisão Caboverdiana

See also

• List of television stations in Africa
• List of companies in Cape Verde