Mass media in the Adrian Islands

Mass media in the Adrian Islands has constantly been ranked as free by the. However, media there remains underdeveloped, and currently radio is the dominant source of information of the Adrianese people. The country currently has only two newspaper publishers. The oldest of the two is Adrian Times, formed in 1902, making it one of the oldest newspapers in the Nesionytan Islands. Adrian Times regularly publishes -language newspapers, which over 150,000 copies are sold each day. Its Adrianese-language counterpart is Oldei Olwik, formed in 1954, to promote the language. Media in the Adrian Islands usually circulates around newspapers, radio, and television. The country has no local magazines, which have to be obtained from foreign countries.

Television
Television signals from Dajankagru have been available in Singiba since 1968. It attracted Kagrash-speaking people due to its Dajankagrash programming. In 1974, a local private company proposed an Adrianese television channel, and tried to introduce television to the Adrianese people, but was scrapped due to the company itself going bankrupt. In 1979, the government took over the project and worked with Radio Adrian Islands to establish the first Adrianese television station.

Television was formally introduced in 1980, and test broadcasts of the Adrian Islands' first television station commenced. It was named Adrianese Television Broadcasting and was officially launched on September 25, 1981. The station was only viewable in the country's capital, Bajongo, until 1991 when a station in Taun Bilong Koko was established. Since all of the television sets were in black and white, the Adrian Islands was the last state to regularly broadcast in black and white until color broadcasts commenced in 1992. ATB later established a station in Tojamati in 1999, and soon the Bajongo station began airing on satellite television the same year. Satellite television started to become mainstream in the early 2000s.

In 2006, the first private television station in the Adrian Islands, Koko TV, commenced broadcasts. Headquartered in Taun Bilong, it mainly focuses on entertainment programming, and broadcasts in Adrianese. After the Singiba clashes in 2008, signals from Dajankagru were jammed by the Adrianese government. The ban was later lifted in 2012. In 2015, Oldei Olwik established Solar Channel, the country's first news channel. Several community television stations, which do not count as official stations by the Bureau of Adrianese Media, exist mainly in villages. In March 2021, ATB started broadcasting on digital television via.