HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

98Télévision Nationale d’Haïti (TNH) www.tnhtv.ht - the state televisionstation which forms part of the government broadcasting corporation RadioTélévision National d'Haïti) Radio. It has several repeater stations in theinterior.Télé Métropole www.metropolehaiti.com – a companion channel to thepopular Port-au-Prince radio station Radio Métropole.These stations are amongst the few in Haiti to produce in-house many of theprogrammes that they broadcast.The peak television viewing period is between 19.00 and 22.00 in the evening.However, two popular stations in Port-au-Prince, Télé Caraïbes and Télé Eclair,also enjoy a spike in viewing during the late afternoon when they broadcast soapoperas.Families who have the means to pay for a constant electricity supply watch televisionregularly.However the amount of time spent watching TV each week is low by internationalstandards.The DAGMAR survey found that the average Haitian viewer only watches four to sixhours of television per week.That compares to an average of 26.5 hours in Canada.When Haitians want to watch a really important programme, such as a decisiveinternational soccer match, they sometimes get together to rent a generator for theday. They then form a group to watch television in the street.98