The Secretary – General Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization Engr. Shoal Taylor has said that the National Broadcasting Commission NBC would need N100 billion to fund the digitization project in the broadcast industry.
Taylor who made this known in Abuja during the first Annual Lecture organized by the NBC in commemoration of its 23rd Anniversary stated that the ECOWAS has fixed a new date for the digitalization of the industry for June 17, 2017.
Earlier in an address, Mr Emeka Mba, Director – General NBC, explained that the critical challenges has been piloting the switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting regretting that unfortunately the country missed the ITU’s June 17, 2015 deadline not by design but due to factors beyond her control.
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