Tag: Digital Switch Over
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For DSO, a new life in a season of expectations, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe The thing about the future is that it steals on you like a thief at night and you are hardly prepared. The launch of the second phase of the Digital Switchover (DSO), which looked very far away, is beginning tomorrow from Lagos. Whether it is the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) who should…
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Second phase roll out of digital switch over begins Thursday in Lagos – FG
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has announced that the second phase roll-out of the Digital Switch Over (DSO) would begin on April 29 in Lagos state. The minister made the disclosure in Abuja, on Tuesday, at an interactive session with the Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation and the 13-Member…
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No state will be left out of Digital Switch Over – Minister
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has assured that no state will be left out of the Digital Switch Over (DSO) – the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. The minister gave the assurance on Thursday in Abuja at the unveiling of the timetable for the roll out of the DSO…
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A needed DSO and protruding questions, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe One young lady from a radio station in Lagos searched me out. She had read a couple of my materials on broadcasting and needed to ask some questions on Digital Switchover (DSO) by way of getting some more understanding that she, in turn, could extend to her audience. This is a…
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Time to bring closure to the Digital Switchover process, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe While trying to take some dispassionate look at the broadcast industry last weekend, my mind kept returning to the village, to the hilarious but affectionate story of one old man whose wife was very sickly. At every opportunity the old man would inform humorously that the wife had been attended to…
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Edo set to reposition EBS Radio/TV for digital switch-over
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state government will reposition the state-owned broadcast outfits, Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS) Radio and Television, as it prepares for the digital switch-over. Obaseki said this during the courtesy visit by the management team of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), to the Government House, in Benin City,…
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Digital switch over will provide endless opportunities – Lai Mohammed
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, on Friday said the “Digital Switch Over” from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting, would create endless opportunities in the entertainment and economic sectors. Mohammed made this remark during the official launch of the digital switchover television service in Osogbo, Osun. According to the minister, the switchover would…
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Nigeria needs 32m STB for digital switch over – NBC
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says the country needs 32 million Set Top Box (STB) for it to switch from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting. The Director-General of NBC, Mr Ishaq Kawu made this known during a news conference on Digital Switch Over (DSO) held in Lagos on Friday. Kawu said that the number was…