{{Use Nigerian English|date=June 2026}} {{Infobox television channel | name = NTA2 | logo = | logo_size = | logo_caption = | launch_date = {{start date|1980|4}} | picture_format = | network = | owner = Nigerian Television Authority | parent = | motto = | country = Nigeria | language = English, Yoruba | area = Lagos State | affiliates = | headquarters = Lagos, Nigeria | former_names = | replaced = | replaced_by = | sister_channels = NTA Lagos | timeshift_service = | website = | terr_serv_1 = VHF | terr_chan_1 = Channel 5 (Lagos) | terr_serv_2 = StarTimes | terr_chan_2 = Channel 104 (Lagos) | terr_serv_3 = | terr_chan_3 = | terr_serv_4 = | terr_chan_4 = | online_serv_1 = | online_chan_1 = | online_serv_2 = | online_chan_2 = | 3gmobile serv 1 = }} '''NTA2''' is a television station available in Lagos, the largest city of Nigeria. It is one of the two secondary channels owned by the Nigerian Television Authority, with the only other such channel being NTA Plus in Abuja.
==History== NTA2 came to be in 1980 over a dispute between the Nigerian Television Authority and Lagos Television over possible VHF frequencies to be used. The NTA strongly opposed the plans of the state government to set up a television station on channel 5. Ultimately the NTA remained on channel 5 while Lagos Television was relocated to channel 8.<ref name="Ethnographic">{{cite web |title=An Ethnographic Study of Women in a Nigerian Context |url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/71333/1/10390937.pdf |access-date=12 January 2024 |website=University of Glasgow |date=1993 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529193523/http://theses.gla.ac.uk/71333/1/10390937.pdf |archive-date=29 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> The station, unlike channel 10 (NTA Lagos) catered a more urban elite, which also included widely travelled Nigerians, as well as its status as the main commercial centre that also housed most of the foreign missions in Nigeria.<ref name="Ethnographic" />
While the other NTA stations operated on a 60% Nigerian content quota, NTA2 did the opposite. Its operation was the most widely-commercial out of the whole network. The influx of foreign programming was in order to cater local interests in Lagos alone. The station primarily carried entertainment content, such as sitcoms, music videos, melodramas and international feature films. Most of the content carried was American. It and NTA Ikeja were set to compete with Lagos Television in programming strategies.<ref name="Ethnographic" />
In the 1990s, the station opened at 4pm. By this time the channel carried a wide variety of international cartoons, dramas and sitcoms, the latter of which were mainly black sitcoms from the USA. The emergence of private television stations in Nigeria caused NTA2 to gradually lose its prestige.<ref>{{Cite news |title=NTA 2 Channel 5 was pure gold for kids in the 90s |url=https://www.pulse.ng/gist/throwbackthursday-nta-2-channel-5-was-pure-gold-for-kids-in-the-90s/rqm73fx |access-date=15 January 2024 |newspaper=Pulse Nigeria|date=9 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115121328/https://www.pulse.ng/gist/throwbackthursday-nta-2-channel-5-was-pure-gold-for-kids-in-the-90s/rqm73fx |archive-date=15 January 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref>
NTA2 was a full-time affiliate of TVAfrica, unlike other NTA stations that only used the network for sporting events.<ref name="BPP">{{cite web |title=Broadcasting Policy and Practice in Africa|url=https://www.article19.org/data/files/pdfs/publications/africa-broadcasting-policy.pdf |access-date=3 November 2023 |website=Article 19|date=2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111215959/https://www.article19.org/data/files/pdfs/publications/africa-broadcasting-policy.pdf |archive-date=11 November 2011}}</ref> In 2008, the channel was part of the DStv-provided MTN Mobile TV package in Nigeria.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nigeria: MTN Launches DSTV Mobile Technology |url=https://en.c114.com.cn/582/a315486.html |access-date=2025-12-17 |website=China Communication Network}}</ref><ref>[https://nairametrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/IMPACTofMobileServicesInNIGERIA.pdf THE IMPACT OF MOBILE SERVICES IN NIGERIA]</ref>
Between 2018 and 2020, the station carried ''Shuga'', when it was produced in Nigeria.<ref>{{cite web |title=“You need to be able to stand up for what is right”: MTV Shuga Naija's transformative impact on youth attitudes towards sexual violence in Nigeria |url=https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.23.23293994v1.full.pdf |page=7 |format=pdf |quote=From March-April 2018, ten 22-minute episodes of the television serial drama were aired on MTV satellite and NTA2 Lagos (Nigeria Television Authority) and again 18 months later. The episodes on NTA2 were available only for viewers in the Lagos area while those airing on MTV satellite were potentially viewable anywhere in the country, although access was generally considerably lower outside of Lagos.}}</ref>
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