History Radio Gambia

radio gambia first media broadcaster of gambia following establishment in 1962. since establishment, historical base has been bakau.

alhaji alieu ebrima cham joof,

established during colonial era assistance of advisors britain, programmes in years rebroadcast of programmes in other parts of africa , england. strategy continued right after independence in 1965. although created own news, educational shows , music programmes, radio gambia depended heavily on bbc programming.

on 4 october 1973 office de radiodiffusion télévision du sénégal (orts) (the senegalese radio station) in talks radio gambia producing joint radio programme based on senegambian history , broadcast in local languages came agreement, , first ever recording of programme chossani senegambia (the history of senegambia) made. chossani senegambia first of kind in senegambian broadcasting history , success. in gambia, programme spearheaded alhaji alieu ebrima cham joof (the veteran historian, former director of programmes , head of local languages @ radio gambia), alhaji assan njie (presenter of radio gambia), alhaji mansour njie (historian , presenter of radio gambia) , alhaji ousman secka. following decree gambian government in december 1995, radio gambia merged first national television station of country , became gambia radio & television service (grts).