Fana TV

Fana TV
Country	Ethiopia
Network	Cable television network
Programming
Language(s)	Amharic
Picture format	1080i 16:9, 4:3 (HDTV); Downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed
Ownership
Owner	Fana Broadcasting Corporate
History
Launched	September 2017; 6 years ago
Former names	FBC TV
Links
Website	www.fanabc.com

Fana TV is an Ethiopian satellite television network owned by Fana Broadcasting Corporate, which is a state-owned company. Launched in September 2017, the network is based in Ethiopia and broadcasts programming in Amharic. It has its studios located at the headquarters of Fana Broadcasting Corporate in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.^[1] In recent years, the channel stretched its network with number of news correspondents across the nation.^[2]

History

In 2014, Fana Broadcasting Corporate conducted worldwide procurement with provision of lot, to complete modern, high-definition television. Telmaco was one of participant to the tender that proposed to offer specialized in system-integrator. In June 2015, Telmaco was awarded after long technical negotiation to LOT-2 design and successfully designed to operate the station.^[3]

Test transmission was commenced with HD in July 2017 with only broadcasting music videos. Fana TV began broadcasting regular programmes in September^[3] via Eutelsat and Ethiosat. Throughout the transmission, Fana garnered public attention and growing market shares during 2018. Serial dramas and reality shows are prominent from past years and increasing the number of news correspondents across Ethiopia, becoming the current mostly watched television channel in recent years.^[4]

Platforms

Fana TV was initially made available through Ethiosat in late 2017. In March 2018, Fana TV signed an agreement with South African Digital Satellite Television (DStv) to make the channel more widely available throughout Africa and local internet provider called Websprix launched the first IPTV in Ethiopia which Fana TV started broadcasting.^[5]

Programming

News

Fana 90 (ፋና 90)
Fana Zena (ፋና ዜና)
Fana Kelemat (ፋና ቀለማት)
Alem Shemach (ዓለም ሸማች)

Entertainment

Tibeb Befana (ጥበብ በፋና)
Geordana’s Kichen Show (ጆርዳና ኩሽና ሾው)
Fana Lamrot (ፋና ላምሮት)

Drama/Sitcoms

Tireta (ትርታ)
Min Letazez (ምን ልታዘዝ?)
Zetenegnaw Shi (ዘጠነኛው ሺህ)
Survivor

References

^ "Fana Broadcasting Corporate to build a studio with 150m Br". Addis Fortune. March 30, 2001.
^ "Ethiopia federal forces take over security in protest-hit region - Fana". Reuters. July 23, 2019.
^ a b "FANA Broadcasting Corporate, Ethiopia". www.telmaco.gr. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
^ Jemaneh, Yohanes (10 August 2017). "Ethiopia: TV Channels - Growing in Number, Less in Content". The Ethiopian Herald.
^ "Fana Television joins DStv". Fana Broadcasting Corporate. March 17, 2018.

[1] "Fana Broadcasting Corporate to build a studio with 150m Br". Addis Fortune. March 30, 2001.

[2] "Ethiopia federal forces take over security in protest-hit region - Fana". Reuters. July 23, 2019.

[:0-3] "FANA Broadcasting Corporate, Ethiopia". www.telmaco.gr. Retrieved 2022-04-16.

[4] Jemaneh, Yohanes (10 August 2017). "Ethiopia: TV Channels - Growing in Number, Less in Content". The Ethiopian Herald.

[5] "Fana Television joins DStv". Fana Broadcasting Corporate. March 17, 2018.