Engineer Recalls When Haiti's TNH Led Caribbean Broadcast Technology
Fritz Joassin says the national broadcaster was once a regional reference point, according to Le Nouvelliste.
Telecommunications engineer Fritz Joassin has recalled a period when Télévision Nationale d'Haïti (TNH) stood among the Caribbean's leaders in radio and television broadcasting technology, according to Le Nouvelliste. In an interview with the Port-au-Prince daily, Joassin described the public channel's early years as a time of technological distinction that, he says, may seem difficult to imagine today. Joassin, who was among those who helped build the public station, noted that TNH was inaugurated on December 23, 1979. According to his account cited by Le Nouvelliste, the Haitian broadcaster served as a reference that Dominican media reportedly drew inspiration from, a comparison the article likened to Santo Domingo's Malecon boulevard. The full interview, published behind a registration wall on Le Nouvelliste's platform, reflects on what Joassin called the broadcaster's glorious years. The outlet did not provide further technical specifics in the available excerpt. The account rests on a single source's recollection and has not been independently corroborated in the published excerpt.