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GIBA facilitates training on Migration for Ghanaian Journalists
- November 18, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
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The Ghana Independent Broadcasters’ Association (GIBA) in collaboration with UNESCO has held a day’s training session with editors of various media firms on migration in Accra. The training was to educate and train participants on the challenges of irregular migration that has engulfed Africa, under the “Fondo Africa” three-year project, sponsored by the Italian Government. The event was on the theme: “Empowering young people
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GIBA builds the capacity of Editors on migration
- November 18, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
According to Dr. Roland Affail Monney, President of the Ghana Journalists Association, “migration has assumed significant importance as its potential for economic and social development is increasingly acknowledged in the global agenda. The Ghanaian media therefore has a crucial role to play in the promotion of safe, secure internal and international migration. However, many Ghanaian
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Gambia Gears Up For Digital TV Broadcasting
- July 31, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
Gambia’s public signal distributor for terrestrial television (DTT), Digital Gambia Limited (DGL), and its partner EXCAF-Gambia telecom recently revealed that Gambia plans to migrate from analogue to digital TV broadcasting by 2020. The migration from analogue TV to digital broadcasting is the process in which TV services that were operating on analogue networks are transferred
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Tarzan chides Akufo-Addo, Sakyi-Addo, Kan Dapaah over Radio Gold, XYZ closure
- July 31, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby has criticised President Akufo-Addo, Kweku Sakyi-Addo and Albert Kan Dapaah for abandoning their pedigrees as press freedom fighters. According to the outspoken former Chief Executive of the Ghana@50 Committee and renowned press freedom advocate, the positions the trio occupy and the current happenings in the media space ran contrary to their long
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Ghana’s constitution is meant to protect the media: but does it?
- July 31, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
Between independence 1957 – the year Ghana won independence from British – until 1992 the country had three civilian heads of state interspersed with several military rulers. But that year it finally embraced democratic rule and adopted a constitution. One of the areas of protection the new constitution offered was the independence of the media and
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Kenya’s Media Landscape Disrupted By Digital And Online –TIFA Report
- July 31, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
There have been significant changes in Kenya’s media landscape, and a recently published report by TIFA Research and Reelforge provides insights into what the changes have been. The differences in the Kenyan media landscape before and after the digital broadcasting migration are like day and night. According to data provided by the Communications Authority of
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PRESS STATEMENT ON MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION’S POLICY TO ENCRYPT FREE-TO-AIR TELEVISION CONTENT
- May 28, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
1. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF MIGRATION FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL TERESTRIAL TELEVISION The Republic of Ghana signed on to the Geneva 2006 (GE-06) Agreement establishing the Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Frequency Plan in the radio frequency bands (174 – 230) MHz and (470 – 862) MHz. The Agreement also set 17 June 2015 as the deadline
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Press Statement – World Press Freedom Day 2019
- May 3, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
Mr. Chairman, Chairman of the National Media Commission, Hon. Deputy Minister of Information, UNESCO Resident Representative in Accra, Public Affairs Officer of the US Embassy, President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Chairperson of the Editors’ Forum Ghana, Ag. President of the Association of Women in Media, Senior Journalists, Media Practitioners, All protocols observed, On behalf
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GIBA Expresses Concern About NCA Directive
- April 24, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), has expressed concern about the withdrawal of the minimum specifications for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) by the National Communications Authority’s (NCA). “The impact of the withdrawal notice runs into billions of Ghana cedis of private capital, invested into a legitimate business in Ghana,” Mr. Prince Hari Crystal, GIBA Executive
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OCCUPYGHANA® DISAPPOINTED BY SENIOR MINISTER’S COMMENTS REGARDING AISHA HUANG
- April 24, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
23rd APRIL, 2019 OCCUPYGHANA® PRESS STATEMENT OccupyGhana® is highly disappointed by the recent reported utterances of Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo at a town hall meeting in the United States. We are dismayed by the Minister’s attempt to water down government’s abysmal use of its discretion with respect to the deportation of Chinese galamsey queen