Televisão Pública da Huamba

Televisão Pública da Huamba (Public Television of Huamba) is the state-eun broadcaster of Huamba.
==History==
What we now know as Televisão Pública da Huamba started broadcasting in 1962, when Huamba was an overseas colony of Real. In 1959, Rádio e Televisão Realense began plans for overseas expansion, and Huamba was interested in a television service. In April 1962, RTR Kianda, as it was known back then, began broadcasting. It was the second television station to sign on in southern Bulungi (after RBC in Rhodesia) and the first Lusophone television station in the continent. Programming was supplied from RTR and was broadcast at best for an hour a day. Most of the programming was colonialist propaganda, claiming that the Realese controlled the area.
RTR, on the other side, did not assist on the creation of Televisão do Bulungi do Sul nine years later, owing to the fact that the country was fully-independent and Huamba wasn't. In 1975, Huamba and all the other "colonial countries" of the Realese Empire became independent. About a year before independence and during the civil war, RTR Huamba became known as Radiodifusão Popular da Huamba. RPH didn't survive a year and was divided into two new state corporations - Rádio Nacional da Huamba and Televisão Popular da Huamba.
Upon independence, TPH broadcast on a single channel for about four hours a day. Although the country was aligned to the Soviet Union, most of the imported programming came from democratic countries of the western world, mostly duplicates of imports shown on RTR channels in Real. At this time, TPH began to look after TBS in South Bulungi as an "influencer".
In 1980, a Veracrucian newspaper reported about the precarious conditions of TPH. It was still broadcasting in black and white and was using makeshift equipment. In 1981, following international aid, TPH started broadcasting in color, even though more than three quarters of the population were still receiving the signal using black and white sets. Veracrucian telenovelas from Rede Globo began making the rounds, changing life in Huamba the same way they changed the life of the Realese.
A second channel was launched in 1989. Satellite links were introduced in 1991, thus expanding the signal to cover even the remotest areas. The monopoly was broken in Kianda in 1993 when Televisão Livre (now TV Zimbo) brgan transmissions, yet TPH still had a virtual monopoly over television ratings until the turn of the millennium.
In 1997, the new regime forcibly changed the name of the company to Televisão Pública da Huamba. Despite the change, TPH was still viewed as a government mouthpiece.
In 2008, aided by a commercial enterprise, TPH "sold" its second channel to Semba despite being the legal owner of the frequencies. An international channel was launched by the same production company. After nearly ten years, TPH resumed control over TPH 2 and gained complete control over TPH Internacional on January 1st, 2018.
Several attempts have been made to merge RNH and TPH into a larger public broadcaster, similar to Rádio e Televisão do Bulungi do Sul and Rádio e Televisão de Cabo Ouro but all these efforts were unsuccessful.
==Operations==
==See also==
*Television in Huamba
*Rádio Nacional da Huamba