Editing Communications in Somalia (section)

==Television==
[[File:Hctvnwshd2.png|thumb|right|News show on the Somali private channel [[Horn Cable Television]].]]
The Mogadishu-based [[Somali National Television]] is the principal national public service broadcaster. On 18 March 2011, the Ministry of Information of the Transitional Federal Government began experimental broadcasts of the new TV channel. After a 20-year hiatus, the station was shortly thereafter officially re-launched on 4 April 2011.<ref name="Atyspints">[http://www.allheadlinenews.com/briefs/articles/90043393?After%2020%20years%2C%20Somali%20president%20inaugurates%20national%20TV%20station After 20 years, Somali president inaugurates national TV station]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> SNTV broadcasts 24 hours a day, and can be viewed both within Somalia and abroad via terrestrial and satellite platforms.<ref name="Slntv">[http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Newsfeed/Article/129213126/201104041037/Somalia-launches-national-TV.aspx Somalia launches national TV]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
Additionally, Somalia has several private television networks, including [[Horn Cable Television]] and [[Universal Television (Somalia)|Universal TV]]. Two such TV stations re-broadcast [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]] and [[CNN]]. [[Eastern Television Network]] and [[Somali Broadcasting Corporation|SBC TV]] air from [[Bosaso]], the commercial capital of Puntland. The Puntland and Somaliland regions also each have one government-run TV channel, [[Puntland TV and Radio]] and [[Somaliland National TV]], respectively.<ref name="factbook"/>