Rhodesia Television

Rhodesia Television
TypeTelevision network
Country
AvailabilityNational
OwnerArgus Newspapers and Davenport & Meyer
Launch date
1960 (as Rhodesia Television Limited)
Dissolved1980 (1980)
Former names
Federal Broadcasting Corporation

Rhodesia Television (RTV) was a live-broadcast, television station operating in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a private company. It was established on the 14th of November, 1960, first in Salisbury (now Harare), with transmissions in Bulawayo beginning seven months later. It was only the fourth TV service in Africa after Algeria, Nigeria and Egypt, and the first such service in southern Africa, since South Africa did not introduce television until 1976.