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Contacts of Key Ghana Health Service Personnel on Covid-19
- March 25, 2020
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
No CommentsAs we continue to create awareness among the Ghanaian populace, sensitise and educate listeners and viewers on personal hygiene and health related matters, the Executive Council and all stakeholders in the fight against Covid-19 recognise that it is critical to have access to persons who are in a position to provide the right information needed
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COMMUNIQUE: Novel Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid 19)
- March 13, 2020
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
On Thursday, 12th March 2020, the Ministry of Health confirmed to Ghanaians the first two cases of Covid 19. Covid 19 has been identified as an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since late 2019 there has been a global spread of this disease, resulting in the 2019–20 coronavirus
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GIBA sues NCA, AG over Conditional Access implementation for Free-to-Air TV
- January 30, 2020
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has sued the National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Attorney General’s (A-G’s) Department over the NCA’s decision to introduce Conditional Access for Free-to-Air TV broadcast as a breach of the right to free press enshrined in the 1992 Constitution. In a writ filed at the Supreme Court lastTuesday, GIBA
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GIBA’s Campaign against Conditional Access for Free-to-Air TV Broadcasting
- January 17, 2020
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
This public service announcement is aimed at further educating and sensitizing the Ghanaian broadcast consuming public.
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MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS PUBLISHES DOCTORED STANDARDS DOCUMENT TO SNEAK IN CONDITIONAL ACCESS FOR FREE-TO-AIR TELEVISION THROUGH THE BACKDOOR
- January 7, 2020
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
PRESS STATEMENT MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS PUBLISHES DOCTORED STANDARDS DOCUMENT TO SNEAK IN CONDITIONAL ACCESS FOR FREE-TO-AIR TELEVISION THROUGH THE BACKDOOR 7th January 2020 The role of the broadcasting media, particularly the television press service in Ghana’s maturing democracy cannot be over emphasized. Free-to-Air Television Broadcasting forms part of what is often
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PRESS STATEMENT ON THE REVISED MINIMUM SPECIFICATION ON DTT AND DTH RECEIVERS WHICH RULES OUT MANDATORY ENCRYPITION OF FREE-TO-AIR TELEVISION THROUGH A CONDITIONAL ACCESS SYSTEM
- December 24, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
GIBA WELCOMES THE NEW STANDARD The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has published a revised standard on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and Direct-To-Home (DTH) Receivers which makes Conditional Access System (CAS) non-mandatory for Free-To-Air Receivers. This will mean television broadcasters who have been authorised by the National Communications Authority (NCA) to operate in the Free-To-Air (FTA)
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GIBA facilitates training on Migration for Ghanaian Journalists
- November 18, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: Uncategorized
The Ghana Independent Broadcasters’ Association (GIBA) in collaboration with UNESCO has held a day’s training session with editors of various media firms on migration in Accra. The training was to educate and train participants on the challenges of irregular migration that has engulfed Africa, under the “Fondo Africa” three-year project, sponsored by the Italian Government. The event was on the theme: “Empowering young people
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GIBA builds the capacity of Editors on migration
- November 18, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
According to Dr. Roland Affail Monney, President of the Ghana Journalists Association, “migration has assumed significant importance as its potential for economic and social development is increasingly acknowledged in the global agenda. The Ghanaian media therefore has a crucial role to play in the promotion of safe, secure internal and international migration. However, many Ghanaian
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Gambia Gears Up For Digital TV Broadcasting
- July 31, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
Gambia’s public signal distributor for terrestrial television (DTT), Digital Gambia Limited (DGL), and its partner EXCAF-Gambia telecom recently revealed that Gambia plans to migrate from analogue to digital TV broadcasting by 2020. The migration from analogue TV to digital broadcasting is the process in which TV services that were operating on analogue networks are transferred
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Tarzan chides Akufo-Addo, Sakyi-Addo, Kan Dapaah over Radio Gold, XYZ closure
- July 31, 2019
- Posted by: emblisha
- Category: News
Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby has criticised President Akufo-Addo, Kweku Sakyi-Addo and Albert Kan Dapaah for abandoning their pedigrees as press freedom fighters. According to the outspoken former Chief Executive of the Ghana@50 Committee and renowned press freedom advocate, the positions the trio occupy and the current happenings in the media space ran contrary to their long