Feb 01 2010
Senegalese religious sect launches new television station
APA-Dakar (Senegal) ‘Touba TV’, from the name of a religious city of the Mouride Brotherhood (followers of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba), has launched its programs available on satellite in Africa, APA learns on Monday in Dakar.
This new television channel, whose credo is “the television that brought us together », is available on satellite in Africa on W4-12437 frequency 14 GHz, pending its broadcast to Europe and the United States in mid-March.
’Touba TV’ was created in November 2009 by Senegalese investors and communication specialists, who want to “give their country’s media landscape an innovative approach and endogenous television, largely based on the Senegalese society’s cultural, spiritual and historical values,” it is said.
The television will broadcast “very rich and varied” programs that are designed to educate, inform or entertain in constant compliance with our values and basic moral principles,” the Senegalese media said.
This will also include reports, documentaries, and coverage of events, entertainment, advertisements and commercials, interactive programs, discussions of news, interviews, and themed programs.
’Touba TV’ will also cover productions on the Senegalese literary, cultural and historic heritage, religious and secular education courses, as well as coverage of the Senegalese Diaspora.
According to its promoters, the TV has no political pretensions and nor does it rely on any politician or partisan colouring.
