Showing posts with label Mauritius. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mauritius. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 March 2015

Aden to Bermuda and beyond - Part 9

Back briefly to the thrills and spills of TTI and TIE now, with a short extract from the 12 June 2014 issue of Le Matinal, a Mauritian newspaper. 

It's an article celebrating 50 years of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation:



My French isn't very good. In fact, it's hopeless. But that does seem to say that TIE and TTI were part of the consortium that set up the MBC in 1964. 

And MBC broadcast 75 episodes of Hartnell Who between 21 October 1966 and 29 March 1968 (see Broadwcast for details). 

Partie 10 suivra eventuellement.

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Aden to Bermuda and beyond - Part 6

That was a nice rest. Hello, Part 6. 

With huge thanks to shuzbot from the Planet Mondas Forum for much of this, let us now amble onwards to the last four broadcasters for whom (according to that 1966 advertisement) TIE bought television programmes; namely, EBS in Ethiopia, MBC in Mauritius, SLTV in Sierra Leone, STV in Sudan

Some general sources of information first. This is from page 29 of a 1974 UNESCO report called Television traffic: A one-way street? A survey and analysis of the international flow of television programme material:



TTI and TIE also get a mention on page 53 of the report:


And this is from page 109 of The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Volume 3 (1970, Erik Barnouw):



So those, taken together, point to TTI being active in all four of our remaining countries - cue a rousing chorus of 'Sudan, Mauritius, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia'. 

However! There is more to ponder in Part 7. Come along, Ponderer.