gambia radio & television service type broadcast country gambia availability national owner government of gambia the gambia radio & television service is the national broadcaster of the west african state of the gambia . gambia radio & television service currently broadcasts in arabic and english . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 notes 4 external links history edit the history of grts stems from the mergership of the older and more established radio gambia and the rather recent television channel . radio gambia was the first media broadcaster in the gambia opened in 1962 . 1 its historical base is bakau a town in the gambia . in december 1995 grts was commissioned by the gambian government which began test transmissions under the gambia telecommunications company gamtel . in 1996 it adopted its own television channel . the station operates as a public service station based on the tradition of radio gambia . the station s programmes are mostly news public service announcements education entertainment and religious related islam and christianity only mostly islam and nothing on traditional african religion . 2 awards edit in 2010 the station was awarded the national order of the republic of the gambia with the rank of commander crg . 3 notes edit joof alhaji alieu ebrima cham the calendar of historical events in the gambia 1455 1995 p 13 2003 grts official site the daily observer national award recipients approved external links edit official site this television related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gambia radio % 26 television service & oldid 626265951 categories television networkspublicly funded broadcasterstelevision in the gambiacompanies of the gambiacommunications in the gambia1995 establishments in the gambiaradio stations established in 1962television channels and stations established in 1995state mediatelevision stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 19 september 2014 at 22 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view