Izuba TV first aired on Friday, January 11th, 2018 at about 3pm on Channel 102 on Star Times and with no subscription fees paid to watch it. It started playing music and movies but it will soon start airing shows related to rural community development. in no long time to come.
Izuba TV, the first Community TV in Rwanda and a sister television to Radio Izuba will work be focusing on community social life with headquarters in Ngoma District in Eastern Province where Izuba Radio has been operating from since 2004. when it opened.
Speaking to IGIHE, the Director of Izuba TV, Alphonse Muhire Munana said Izuba TV has promotion of the community development life as the major editorial line.
“It is a sister TV to Izuba Radio. They both work aiming at improving lives of community members and community development. Izuba TV’s specialty is that it is the first community TV station in Rwanda and operatimng from outside Kigali. It s daily editorial line will focus on citizens’ daily lives,” Muhire Munana said.
“We won’t much focus entertainment and sports only not ignoring the big number of Rwandans needing that. We want to link the agriculture, social welfare, child education, child growth and daily life of the Rwandan citizen in general with local the low governance organs as always as they always go hand in hand,” he added.
Izuba TV is coming to Rwandan market for business or to compete with other TV stations already in Rwanda according to Muhire Munana.]
“It is Radio Izuba’s continuing job as the first community radio station that opened in Rwanda. With 14 years in the media industry, the media house has been built on a durable foundation,” he said.
All journalists of Radio Izuba have been trained and they are the ones to work start with Izuba TV.
“We will add other journalists as shows increase or when we need other knowledge,” he said adding that the TV will be accessed across the country.
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