Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has launched its Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) to mark its migration from analogue to digital broadcasting.
This was possible after GBC took delivery and installed a 5 kilowatt and 2 kilowatts transmitters in Accra and Kumasi respectively and plans to cover the entire country as soon as the government has finalized its policy directive. The installations are the first phase of the DTT infrastructure in the two cities.
According to the Director of GBC, William Apem-Darko, GBC would be unveiling a number of new channels very soon.
“For us in the broadcasting industry, it’s not just about digital television; it is also about the socio-economic development of this country. Despite the magnitude and the complexity in the task of digitalization, not to talk about the cost, it is clear that the long term benefit clearly outweighs the short term cost,” he noted.
GBC for the past year has been running a pilot system to showcase the system and test the various and complex integration of equipment and software that needs to be done.
Ghana has up to 2015 to migrate from analogue broadcasting to digital. All around the world, the migration to digital broadcast transmission technology has begun.
Countries already advanced in their migration programmes are France, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, and New Zealand among others. In countries like Sweden, Finland and Mauritius, the analogue switch-off has already been completed.
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