Ghanaian Broadcasters join others in the continent today, Thursday, 13th February 2020 to celebrate World Radio Day.
February 13 is World Radio Day, which celebrates the radio as a way of educating people, providing information, and promoting freedom of expression across cultures.
Mrs. Ursula Owusu Ekuful, the Minister of Communications, has said Radio Stations Audit, which was carried out between 2017 and 2019, affected 57 FM stations which were closed down.
She said within the period, out of the 144 identified for various regulatory infractions as directed by the Electronic Communications Tribunal.
Addressing the media when she took her turn at the Meet-the-Press Series in Accra, Mrs. Ursula Owusu Ekuful, said so far, 30 out of the 57 FM stations that were closed down had submitted fresh applications for FM authorization, and 15 of them already processed.
The Minister said the remaining 15 applications were being processed, which included; technical and management reviews as well as the approval of the Board.
On 12th February 2020, The National Communications Authority (NCA) has suspended the operations of Radio Tongu at Sogakope in the Volta Region “on the grounds of National Security and in the public interest.”
This follows correspondence between the NCA and the Tongu Community Multimedia Network on the management of the station.
On January 15, 2020, the Director of the community radio station based at Sogakope, Bestway Zottor was arrested for allegedly promoting the agenda of the Homeland Study Group Foundation, a secessionist group in the region.
Last month, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Volta Region has closed down a radio station at Dambai in the Krachi East District of the Oti Region over an illegal electricity connection.
The operation conducted on January 8, 2020, revealed that the station, Kanor FM, had illegally connected power from a nearby electricity pole and the station had also been surcharged GH¢38,000.
Source: mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
