RTC (Cape Verde)

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Radio Televisão de Cabo Verde
Type	Public
Founded	late-20th century
Headquarters	Cape Verde
Industry	Television
Website	www.rtc.cv

The Radio e Televisão de Cabo Verde (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Radiu y Televison di Kabuberdi) is a Cape Verde's first radio and television station broadcasting local programs from Cape Verde, Portugal and Brazil as well as the rest of the world. It is a publicly owned company and enterprise and is located in the Capeverdean capital city of Praia and has a few buildings. The building size is very small, only like local affiliates in North America as well as Latin America, Australia and Europe.

The station also broadcasts news, sports, television shows and recently broadcasts football or soccer coverages from Portugal and also from Brazil as well as Latin America but rarely around the world.

[edit] History and information

The radio services in Cape Verde began in the 1950s making it the first in the nation, it began broadcasting news, sporting events including soccer games from the nation and Cape Verde, in the late-20th century, a television channel were added and is the first in all of Cape Verde and broadcasted a few programs, sporting events, documentaries and more.

It had broadcasted the World Cup games in which is one of the the few international games seen, there were no international coverages except for the African sporting events until the 2000s.