License - NBC Kicks Off Process On One- Radio, One- TV Network

Fri. September 04, 2009; Posted: 10:19 AM

Abuja, Sep 04, 2009 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- ROIAK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- In a move that promises to improve the Nigerian broadcast sector ahead of the 2012 deadline for complete digitalising , the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has announced the start of the process of licensing one-Radio and one-Television Network Service. Director-General of the Commission, Yomi Bolarinwa, who made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja, stated that strict rules of transparency would be applied throughout the process to its logical conclusion.

According to him, given Nigeria's enormous size, her wide diversity and remarkable plurality, as well as its economic prospects, the Commission has determined that it is desirable and imperative to increase the number of broadcast networks in the country.

Bolarinwa revealed that the Commission has sought and received the gracious approval of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to commence the licensing process for commercially operated and privately owned radio and television network services to operate along side the existing FG owned Radio and Television networks.

"This move is within the framework of the FG's economic reform programme aimed at modernizing the Nigerian economy and expanding the role of the private sector in driving sustained economic development," he added.

However, he appealed to stakeholders to cooperate with the commission to midwife a successful licensing of privately owned and commercially operated radio and television networks to stimulate and enrich further the bubbling Nigerian Broadcasting landscape.

It should be noted that after 77 years of radio broadcasting, 50 years of television broadcasting and 17 years of broadcast deregulation in Nigeria, the only licensed government- owned radio and television networks are the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and Nigeria Television Authority (NTA).

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