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BON Allays Fears Of Broadcasting Blackout After Digital Switch Over

The Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) has allayed fears of blackout of analogue broadcasting after digital switch over from June 17 this year. The Chairman … Continue reading BON Allays Fears Of Broadcasting Blackout After Digital Switch Over


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BON LogoThe Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) has allayed fears of blackout of analogue broadcasting after digital switch over from June 17 this year.

The Chairman of the organisation, Mr Sola Omole, made the clarification at a news conference in Abuja, ahead of a 2-day summit with players in the broadcast industry before the June 17 deadline of switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting in Nigeria.

Nigeria is signatory to the treaty that was signed at the end of the 2006 International Telecommunications Conference, where a resolution was made that Africa, the Middle East and the Republic of Iran should switch from analogue to digital broadcasting by June 17, 2015.

Since then, the organisation has urged broadcasters to prepare for the switch from analogue to digital.

According to Mr. Omole, although BON and other stakeholders, including the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) are working to meet the deadline, the switch from analogue to digital will be in phases.

The Director-General of the NBC, Mr Emeka Mba, also clarified what would happen to transmission signals to other African countries who may not meet up with the switch-over date.

Nigeria launched a pilot phase of the switch from analogue to digital broadcast in Jos, Plateau State last year,
 2014.

The NBC said that the exercise showed that the switch was possible except for the availability of set-up boxes which it is currently working at providing.