• GIBA sues NCA, AG over Conditional Access implementation for Free-to-Air TV

    • January 30, 2020
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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

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  • Ghana’s constitution is meant to protect the media: but does it?

    • July 31, 2019
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    Between independence 1957 – the year Ghana won independence from British – until 1992 the country had three civilian heads of state interspersed with several military rulers. But that year it finally embraced democratic rule and adopted a constitution. One of the areas of protection the new constitution offered was the independence of the media and

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  • Kenya’s Media Landscape Disrupted By Digital And Online –TIFA Report

    • July 31, 2019
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    There have been significant changes in Kenya’s media landscape, and a recently published report by TIFA Research and Reelforge provides insights into what the changes have been. The differences in the Kenyan media landscape before and after the digital broadcasting migration are like day and night. According to data provided by the Communications Authority of

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