Ethiopia: Satellite TV resumes service after 24-day disruption BY Ethiomedia,
SEATTLE - The Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT), which is an independent news and information broadcasting service, has resumed services, the management announced in a press release on Wednesday.
Reaching the Ethiopian audience via Arabsat, ESAT services were disrupted for 24 days after it was launched in May this year. "We are pleased by the extraordinary outpouring of public support for ESAT and the determination shown by our viewers and supporters to ensure that they will keep the flames of ESAT burining to illuminate the darkness that has descended on Ethiopia today. We are most encouraged and deeply appreciative of the high level of public support for ESAT," the management said in a press statement. Home to over 80 million people, Ethiopia is the second most populous nation in Africa that doesn't have an independent television and radio broadcasting service of its own. Since coming to power of the tyrannical regime of Meles Zenawi, Ethiopians have been living in news blackout, only subjected to a dose of ruling party propaganda.
Therefore, the launch of ESAT was received with a big sigh of relief by freedom-yearning Ethiopians around the globe, who are trying to finance the huge cost of running a satellite service through self-initiated fund-raising activities.
Accordingly, various ESAT-supporting programs have been planned for July 31 this month in Amsterdam, where the annual Ethiopian Sports and Cultural Festival in Europe will be held. For details, visit
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