Ethiopia Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

31The station began broadcasting in 1980 and is now based in Mekele, the capital ofTigray region.It is now partly owned by the local cement factory and is officially classified as aprivate radio station.DWET says that its broadcasts from a 100 KW Medium Wave transmitter in Mekeleand a 100KW Short Wave transmitter at Gedja near Addis Ababa, cover five millionpeople.The station is on air for 10 hours per day during the week, with separate broadcastsin the morning, at lunchtime and in the evening. It broadcasts for 14 hours per day atweekends.DWET broadcasts on Short Wave on 5950 Khz and 5980 Khz.Contact?Tel: +251-34-441 0545+251-34-441 0544Dimtsi Woyane Tigray (DWET), PO.Box 450, Mekele, TigrayDWET 102.2 FMDWET FM broadcasts music and entertainment programmes in Tigrinya fromMekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.It is on air for 18 hours per day from 06.00 to midnight and claims to reach about onemillion people.DWET FM began broadcasting in February 2010.The station is an offshoot from Dimtsi Woyane Tigray (DWET), the privatebroadcasting company that grew out of the former clandestine radio station of theTigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the forerunner of Ethiopia’s ruling EPRDFparty.Contact?Tel: +251-34-441 0545+251-34-441 0544Dimtsi Woyane Tigray (DWET), PO.Box 450, Mekele, Tigray