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GIBA Expresses Concern About NCA Directive
- April 24, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
No CommentsThe 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
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National Media Commission meets with Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association
- March 18, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
The National Media Commission (NMC) on Tuesday, 12th March, 2019 held a meeting with the Executive Council and Council of Elders of the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA). This was in line with the Commission’s need to meet with its constituent bodies since the 9th Commission took office. The purpose of the meeting was for
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SOLIDARITY MESSAGE FROM GIBA FOR THE LATE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST AHMED HUSSEIN SUALE
- February 15, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
It is indeed sad that we should gather here today not in joyful celebration but to remember a budding professional whose light was abruptly blown off in the prime of his life. Words cannot begin to describe the apprehension we feel as a result of the dastardly act inflicted upon the person of Ahmed Hussein
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World Radio Day 2019: “Radio and Dialogue, Tolerance and Peace”
- February 12, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
Radio broadcast is one of the world’s greatest successes, with radio stations having similar programming styles such as talks, sports news, religious programmes, weather, news and current affairs, and programmes of interest to women and children. From the time when most countries only had radio stations owned and operated by the government to the present
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Press Release: GIBA Digital Media Dialogue
- November 28, 2018
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
The impact of the digital migration and developments in the digital broadcasting space as well as changes in consumer demographics and preferences makes it necessary to reconsider broadcasting policies and regulations that safeguards and strengthens freedom of expression, freedom of the media and access to information. Content creators, channel aggregators and marketers will have to
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The Maiden Edition of the GIBA Digital Media Dialogue
- November 24, 2018
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
In 2006, Ghana, along with other members of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), signed an agreement in Geneva that set June 17, 2015 as the deadline for all countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Russia to migrate from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcasting technology within the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Band.
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Journalists schooled on Ghana’s Digital Television Migration process
- October 4, 2018
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
Even though Ghana’s quest to digitize its broadcasting space by switching from analogue to digital television is bound to affect every home in the country when the final processes are through, there seems to be general lack of appreciation of the process by a large section of the public. In order to bridge the gap,
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Sam George condemns tax waiver for China’s StarTimes
- September 20, 2018
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
NDC MP for Ningo-Prampram, Sam George, has criticized government for furthering Chinese interests through a tax waiver for Chinese firm, StarTimes, because of their decision to offer digital TV experience to some 300 Ghanaian villages. Mr. George, a member of Parliament’s Communications committee, said on Citi TV’s Point of View that the “waiver is the
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StarTimes ‘Access to Satellite TV for 300 Villages in Ghana Project’ – A Betrayal of the Digital Migration Roadmap
- September 18, 2018
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
Last July, the Parliament of Ghana adopted a resolution granting prior approval to the Minister of Finance pursuant to Article 174(2) of the Constitution, to waive Import Duties, Import VAT, Import NHIL, ECOWAS Levy, EXIM Levy, Special Import Levy, Inspection Fees and AU Levy amounting to Three Million, Two Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty Ghana
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