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ABC to partner with RTTL Timor-Leste

ABC International Services will work with Timor-Leste broadcaster to help it establish a news service for its new English-speaking channel.

ABC has signed an historic agreement with Radio e Televisoa de Timor-Leste (RTTL).

The agreement between the two public broadcasters allows for increased content sharing and media development programs.

While ABC Radio Australia has been available to Timorese audiences many years, ABC International Services will work with RTTL to help it establish a news service for its new English-speaking channel, sharing content from the ABC newsrooms and working with RTTL staff to enhance their journalism and content making skills.

RTTL President José Antonio Belo said: “This is an important moment for RTTL and ABC to cement the historic relationship and express our shared values.

“RTTL is happy to build on the spirit of friendship and collaboration and, in particular, to learn from ABC as we establish our English news service and channel.”

ABC Managing Director David Anderson said: “The ABC is committed to working with RTTL, and the people of Timor-Leste, and to learning from each other as both organisations seek to better serve our audiences.”

Other activities include establishing a network of Pacific journalists, with a local correspondent based in Dili, the syndication of ABC content to local media providers and Timor-Leste media and journalists’ associations building media craft skills.

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  1. This story is a year old, but “During the Spring Festival in 2022, in Guike Village, Liquiza District, East Timor, villager Gbagbo’s family sat in front of a brand-new TV set, watching the China Global Television Network Channel’s series of reports on the Chinese New Year. The enthusiastic festival activities attracted everyone, and everyone was shocked by the beautiful picture, the experience brought by the integration of reality and technology, and bursts of amazement from time to time. The happiness of Gbagbo and the villagers benefit from the project of China-aided terrestrial digital TV transmission system in East Timor which was launched in 2021. With the assistance of China, East Timor has its own digital TV system. Among the 22 digital channels in addition to Timor-Leste National Television, are also 5 channels from China, including CGTN, CCTV-4, and Beijing Satellite TV”. A bit slow Australia. Dropped the ball on that one. seetao.com/details/159898.html

  2. The funding from the federal government will either be direct, indirect or both. Given that no ministerial information is mentioned in the article, I can’t tell for sure.

    I think there has been some improvement in the programming of ABC Australia, the overseas satellite channel, since Labor took the portfolio. Asia and the Pacific would be a priority. Timor-Leste has relatively close ties with Australia going back to their independence and before.

    But being so close to Indonesia and potential geopolitical issues, it’d be important or wise to be transparent about the operations as well.

  3. Interesting news, if the ABC is involved then federal government funding is necessary so the Australian Government had to have approved it, this could be interpreted as being more Albanese foreign affairs detente in Australia’s geopolitical region, especially in the aftermath of China’s presence in the Solomon Island’s and their recent economic loans there, which wont be good news for that countries sovereignty.

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