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Broadcasting Stations must devote time
for public interest
Akosombo, Dec. 21, Ghanadot/GNA - Participants at a Primary
Stakeholders Meeting on the way forward for public service
broadcasting have resolved that the state puts in place a
framework that mandated all broadcasting stations in the
country to undertake a minimum transmission of public
service broadcasting.
A communiqué issued at the end of the two-day meeting and
signed by Mr. Affail Monney, Vice President of the Ghana
Journalists Association, said effective public broadcasting
was crucial for the consolidation of democratic culture in
Ghana as well as the country's overall development process
due to the unique role it played.
It said the public service broadcasting sector was
underdeveloped and needed to engage the priority attention
of policy makers, regulatory bodies and civil society
organization.
The communiqué said whichever funding mechanism was out in
place to support public service broadcasting should
recognize and reward the contribution of non state
broadcasting stations.
It said the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation as the only
state-owned organization, should be supported to transform
into a true public broadcaster both in its legal mandate and
philosophical outlook.
The communiqué said GBC's enabling statute NLCD 226 should
be repealed and replaced by a law that defined the public
service broadcasting mandate of the corporation in a
comprehensive manner.
It said the state should review the roles of the National
Media Commission and the National Communications Authority
especially in their roles of allocating media frequencies
and regulation or supervision of the sector.
GNA
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