Use more local content, minister urges television stations

Dr Edward Omane-Boamah, Minister of Communication, has expressed government’s commitment towards ensuring that television stations in the country dedicate 60 percent of their content to local issues.

This, he said, would enable the country preserve its culture from being adulterated by the influx of foreign programme as the adoption of Digital Terrestrial Transmission (DTT) by December 2014 would eventually lead to the proliferation of television stations in the country.

Dr Omane Boamah said this when he visited some television stations in the country to brief them on government’s commitment towards hooking all television stations unto the DTT by December 2014.

Television stations visited by the Minister and members of the DTT Committee were First Digital TV (formally Sky TV), UTV, Crystal TV, GH One TV and TV Africa.

The use of DTT, which would eventually hook all television stations in the country onto one transmission machine and would be managed by Government, has a deadline of December 2014.

DTT would enable all stations operating in the country to have a nationwide coverage with clearer pictures and superior sound quality and less interference as compared to the current analog system being used.

The DTT system also offers far more channels, thus providing the viewer with a greater variety of programs to choose.