The Ethiopian government has control of the radio station and one television station who are in Ethiopia. There are nine radio stations, and eight of them are on the air-AM frequencies, a course based on shortwave. They are the only radio stations, get the license agreement. The major radio stations, all AM frequency: Radio One Voice of Free Ethiopia, Radio Ethiopia, the voice of the revolution of radio and Tigre Torch, who flocked around a station illegal. The only television network, television Ethiopia. Thus, make sure that it is consistent with public policy, radio broadcasts are subject to a number of languages. The press, because of the weakness of reading and writing, high levels of poverty, poor methods of distribution and outside the capital, only a small portion of the population. The major dailies are the Ethiopian Herald and Addis Zemen, the Daily Monitor.
November 17, 1993, was the first time that the name of the radio station Free Radio Voice of Ethiopian Unity was monitored. The radio station in a radio Amharic, in the form of an issuer, including the deployment of Radio Moscow is Amharic. It is shared by most as hostile to the governments of both Ethiopia and Eritrea. Regarding the political line, contact and address of the operation of the station is like the voice of Ethiopian patriotism, a railway station has been observed that in the months of October and November 1992. It was also, in its radio station operating in the former Soviet Union. Radio Free Voice of Ethiopian Unity was still, in October 1994, was not heard by that, since January of that year.
Radio is the Torch Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front. It was signed on November 7, 1994. Torches radio seems to be the substitute for the previous two, the EPRDF stations were: the voice of the Ethiopian man for peace, democracy and freedom, and the voice of the broad guidelines of the measure Oromo. They have been in Amharic and Oromo and the issuer is shared.
The voice of the revolution Tigre be used for a radio station during secret of the Mengistu regime, and it now operates Mekele, the capital of Tigray. It is supported by the Tigre People’s Liberation Front, is a dominant component of the EPRDF.
The Ethiopian Television Network consists of emissions, especially in the wake of policy analysis and analysis of news, entertainment and educational programmes that are common in Amharic, via satellite before being transferred , for foreigners, Ethiopian, who are in North America. The CEO of ETN is Mulugeta Lule. Lule is a journalist who has spent time with the media, newspapers and magazines Tobia. Lule was in fact the founder and editor of the newspaper Tobia and magazines in the 1990’s, before his release on the implementation of political asylum in the United States during the year 1996.