The Network of Communications Reporters (NCR) has commended the Ministry of Communications and the National Communications Authority (NCA) for working steadfastly towards migrating the country fully from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT).
“While the NCR admits that the move towards the full implementation of the process has delayed, it is refreshing that at last, positive results are bound to show in the best interest of the country,” a released issued in Accra and signed by the Dean of NCR, Mr Charles Benoni Okine, said.
It added that “The NCR would want to entreat the ministry to follow through its promise to provide settop boxes to people who cannot genuinely afford them. It is our hope that people will be selected devoid of political party affiliation while using objective and transparent means to select beneficiaries based on merit”.
The network urged the NCR to undertake frequent mystery shopping to identify shop owners who would want to take advantage of the lapses in the system to sell to unsuspecting people, fake settop boxes in their quest to milk the vulnerable.
“With regard to the television stations in the country, the NCR would want to advise the station owners to consider airing more local content as against foreign. We know that due to competition, television stations would want to broadcast more programmes to be able to attract a larger viewership, a temptation that might lead them to do what will not be in the best interest of the people,” the release said.
Subsequently, the NCR pledged its commitment to assist in any way possible to help with the campaign aimed at alerting the republic to avoid buying fake settop boxes and television sets which are not digital on the market.
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