Mali's ORTM program directory brings television and radio productions together while labelling their services separately. ORTM 1, ORTM 2, Radio Mali and Radio Chaîne 2 appear as different destinations, with information, culture, music and other subjects distributed across the collections.
For viewers researching Malian media, those service labels matter as much as the broader institutional name. A television magazine and a Radio Mali production may concern the same country while using different formats and serving different interests.
At a glance
| Reference | Detail |
|---|---|
| Service distinctions | ORTM 1, ORTM 2, Radio Mali and Radio Chaîne 2 |
| Technology production | CyberNTIC on ORTM 1 |
| Radio culture | Contes et légendes du Mali and Surface Littéraire |
Television programs have specific subject associations
ORTM's directory identifies 52 Minutes with culture on ORTM 1, CyberNTIC with information and communication technology on ORTM 1, and Tempo with music on ORTM 2. It also lists Au Cœur de l'Économie within the economic category.
Those subject associations give a more useful picture than treating every ORTM title as a news bulletin. A cultural magazine, technology production and music program represent different parts of the television offering.
CyberNTIC has its own production collection
The dedicated CyberNTIC page includes a February 3, 2026 edition, earlier guest segments, a best-of entry and coverage associated with a digital-sector event in Ouagadougou. These examples connect the production with technology subjects and regional digital activity.
A program can therefore discuss developments outside Mali while remaining an ORTM production. The event's location and the publisher's identity answer different questions; one identifies the subject, the other the editorial source.
Radio Mali offers literature and oral-story collections
Radio Mali's official page separately names Surface Littéraire, Culture et Développement, Justice et Justiciables and Contes et légendes du Mali, associated with Fils de Djéli Baba. It also maintains spoken-news editions and a retrospective music collection.
The folktale and literary titles provide a specifically Malian cultural route beyond television news. A listener seeking oral stories or literature needs the radio production's name, rather than assuming every ORTM item belongs to a linear television channel.
The numeral in Radio Chaîne 2 also needs its medium attached: it is not sufficient by itself to identify ORTM 2 television. For a remembered item, distinguish the cultural television magazine, the technology production, a music program or a Radio Mali story. That preserves several different ways to follow Mali's public media without converting the combined directory into one identical schedule.
Country and language reference
| Reference | Detail |
|---|---|
| Directory name | Mali |
| ISO code | ML |
| Region | Africa |
| Capital reference | Bamako |
| Language context (CLDR snapshot) | Bambara, French |
A dated clock example
A program time needs a date and a named time zone. The example below converts the same fixed UTC instant into the zones recorded for this directory entry; it is an illustration rather than a live clock.
| IANA time zone | Local date and time | UTC offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Bamako | 2026-11-04 20:00:00+00:00 | +0000 |
Useful answers
Are ORTM 2 and Radio Chaîne 2 interchangeable names?
The official directory lists them separately as television and radio destinations. The medium is needed alongside the numeral.
Where does ORTM identify Malian folktales and literature?
Radio Mali’s collection names Contes et légendes du Mali and Surface Littéraire separately from the television program directory.