NTA Port Harcourt is the Nigerian Television Authority regional centre for the state of Rivers in south-central Nigeria, headquartered in its capital Port Harcourt.
[1] NTA Port Harcourt's origins date back to the signal expansion of Eastern Nigeria Television (ENTV) in the 1960s; the station was limited up until then to Enugu.
The independent station for Rivers state brgan broadcasting on December 31, 1974.
With the creation of the Nigerian Television Authority, the local station was inserted in zone B together with Benin, Aba-Owerri and Akure; it still received spillover from NTA Calabar in the early 80s.
[2] By 1983, NTA Port Harcourt was one of the most developed stations in the network, and produced 80% of the programmes it aired.