Eri-TV has a large viewership base outside of Eritrea, which the state-run channel acknowledges and utilizes to communicate with Eritreans living abroad.

Eri-TV recognizes Eritrean Minority Culture and has largely adopted an equal time share between each of the country's spoken languages.

Before the independence of Eritrea, Ethiopia's ETV had planned to build a transmitter in Asmara with a tentative opening date scheduled for December 1976, on VHF channel 5 with an ERP of 1kW.

[3] Eri-TV 1 broadcasts internationally via satellite along with its sister radio station, Dimtsi Hafash.

It also airs a few programs in Italian, Amharic and Somali Eri-TV 2 is the second television channel in Eritrea.