CRTV Sports and Entertainment is birth months after the corporation’s second channel, CRTV News hit the airwaves in January 2018.

Top government officials, football icons in the likes of Albert Roger Miller and other artists were present at the CRTV Mballa 2 production centre to witness the event presided at by Rene Emmanuel Sadi, President of the CRTV Board of Directors and Minister of Communication.

In his keynote address, the Director General of the Corporation Charles Ndongo thanked all those who in one way or the other contributed to the birth of CRTV Sports and Entertainment. He said the channel will accompany sports organizations and will give more time to sports than commentaries and analysis.

Ndongo said CRTV Sports and Entertainment will be present at all sports events with the same level of interest. Entertainment, he said, was introduced to diversify the content of the new channel.

Communication Minister Sadi congratulated Ndongo and his team for the work done to ensure the successful launch of the new channel.

He said the new channel will give greater visibility to sports men and other athletes. Minister Sadi encouraged management to adopt an attractive marketing strategy for business persons.

The new channel, CRTV Sport and Entertainment is on satellite, TNT, cable and on channel 393 on Canal sat.

English Channel for Anglophones

Ntoko Ntube Wilfred and Andrew Azong-Wara, respectively President and Secretary General of the Cameroon Education Forum say given the constitutionally bilingual and bi-cultural history of Cameroon, an “English TV and Radio Channel for the Anglophone sub-culture” is imperative.

They revealed that a memo to this end had been transmitted to the office of the Prime Minister, Head of Government on January 30, 2016. They wonder why their request is yet to even receive an acknowledgement of receipt from the star building.

To the duo, there are authoritative practices found in Cameroon that encumbrance the Anglophone so negatively with the forces assimilation of French “system indigénat”.

“Is this why there is the increased enthusiastic political will to replace the old order Anglophones with a new creation of Francophones turned Anglophones? Otherwise, what explains the influx and the invasion in Anglophone schools?” They wonder.

Ntoko and Azong-Wara maintain that “creating an English TV and radio channel fits the bicultural option and reinforces bilingualism. Most countries may continue to give lip service to the Libertarian Theory of the press, Anglophones are long overdue an English TV and Radio Channel.”