RTTL
Radio e Televisao de Timor-Leste is the national public broadcaster, a state enterprise operating Televisao de Timor-Leste and Radio Timor-Leste from Dili. Its services, successors of broadcasters set up during the 1999-2002 transition to independence, carry news in Tetum and Portuguese nationwide, and its website publishes bulletins and live streams.
RTTL at a glance
- Country
- Timor-Leste
- Region
- Southeast Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Public broadcaster
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- rttlep.tl ↗
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How Crosswire groups RTTL
Crosswire groups RTTL as Centrist for comparisons within Timor-Leste's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate.
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Where RTTL sits in Timor-Leste's press
RTTL is one of 3 outlets tracked in Timor-Leste and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Timor-Leste ranks 32nd of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 9 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to RTTL outside Timor-Leste, starting with Southeast Asia, are Radio Television Brunei (Brunei), NHK News (Japan), TaiwanPlus (Taiwan) and RTHK (Hong Kong). Opening one of them beside RTTL is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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