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Broadcasting Services | Ghana: Govt Calls For Broadcast Media Sector To Promote Cultural Values

Ghana’s broadcast media sector has been urged to promote the nation’s cultural values over foreign ones because Ghanaian cultural values keep fading, as more citizens embrace foreign cultural practices, according to Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Information. ...
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Broadcasting Services | Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Creates Reforms Committee

Ghana’s National Media Commission (NMC), in partnership with the government and other industry stakeholders, has put together a committee to conduct the reforms of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). The committee aims to find new ways to make the GBC ...
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Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Risks Going Off-Air Over Electricity Debt -Reports

The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and its group of outlets across Ghana risk going off-air if the company’s debt to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is not immediately paid up. The Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Yaw ...

GBC And Ghana Athletics Association Secure IAAF World Championship Broadcast Rights

The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) have signed a deal to broadcast the upcoming 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar starting from September 27 to October 10. The partnership brings together Ghana’s most prominent ...

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Gets New Boss

Ghana’s National Media Commission (NMC) together with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo have appointed the communication expert Prof. Amin Alhassan, as the Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. The Commission has also appointed the multiple award-winning sales leader, Frederick Amissah, ...

Ghana’s Government Says It Has Not Approved Sale Of GBC Channels To Private Buyers

Ghana’s Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah recently stated that the country’s government had not advised the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to sell any of its channels to private investors. In an interview on Radio Ghana, the Minister revealed that the ...

Ghana's GBC Denies Selling TV Channels To Private Sector

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has denied that it sold GBC’s TV channels to private companies to operate. It said the allegation that the state broadcaster had sold eight channels to private firms was false, as no channel belonging to GBC ...

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation To Bring Back TV Licence Fee

Augustin Yamson, the acting Director-General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has announced that GBC has decided to bring back the payment of the TV Licence fee as the organisation starts to focus more on Public Service Broadcasting and also aims ...

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) To Re-Think The TV Licensing Model

Reports from Accra, Ghana, indicates that the TV Licence implementation regime currently in force could be revisited and possibly revised by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). It would be recalled that GBC facilitated the establishment of a "Special Court" to ...