Television
Television services were introduced into the then Southern Rhodesia in 1960. The first news broadcast took place on the 15th November, it was presented by Pat Trevor. It was the first such service in the region, as South Africa did not introduce television until 1976. RBC TV was a commercial service carrying advertising, although there was also a television licence fee. Television reception was confined mainly to the large cities, and most viewers were from the white minority. Possibly the best-known Director of the RBC was Dr. Harvey Ward.
Colour television was introduced in 1984, with a second channel, available only in Harare, being introduced in 1986. This channel was discontinued in 1997 and replaced by the first independent channel in Zimbabwe known as Joy TV. This channel lasted until 2002, when it was controversially taken off the air for allegedly failing to pay fees to ZBC. It is believed that Joy TV was killed off, because it posed a threat to the monopoly enjoyed by ZBC.
The main ZBC TV News bulletin opens with a man in traditional tribal costume beating a drum, before more people beat the drum.
The news bulletins include the morning Good Morning Zimbabwe, lunch time News, Nhau Indaba and News Hour. Marion Shaba, the anchor, is usually the host of news hour, while other Zimbabweans such as Oscar Pambuka, Ian Zvoma, Juliet Muzenda and Walter Mpfanochiya are also regular anchors. ZBC Channel 2 TV launched for viewers in Harare only in Winter 2010.
ZBC TV is currently not available online.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)