Minister of information and communication, Professor Dora Akunyili has warned broadcast station that there is no retreat on the 2012 deadline for transition from Analogue to Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting.
She said this yesterday, in
According to her, the deadline is realisable as president Umaru Musa Yar’adua was committed in giving all the political and economic backing needed for easy transition despite the economic meltdown. She further said that the country’s national and state television broadcasting stations are expected in the next three years to transmit from analogue to digital inline with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU resolution has fixed June 17th 2015 as the switchover date for UHF and June 11th for the DHF band respectively.
In actualizing this dream and the urgent need to meet the transition date, the President has set up a Presidential Advisory Committee to meet the deadline as he has approved June 14th 2012 as the switch over date; Akunyili said.
Furthermore, the committee report will create a new policy direction and regulatory framework with far reaching consequences for the development of the broadcasting sector in
Akunyili said that Nigerian Broadcasting industry has witnessed a tremendous progress over the years. Since the establishment of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) by ACT 38 of 1990, the industry has witnessed the most significant changes in communication broadcasting which had resultant effect on the economic growth of the nation.
“In shifting to digitilaization, we are meeting up with the international standard of transmitting information as most private television station have gone digital and the public television station are gradually achieving this goal”, she said.
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