{"id":130399,"date":"2023-12-12T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/12\/tv-signals-to-be-cut-if-broadcasters-do-not-pay-for-digital-terrestrial-tv-platform-ursula\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T19:00:38","slug":"tv-signals-to-be-cut-if-broadcasters-do-not-pay-for-digital-terrestrial-tv-platform-ursula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/12\/tv-signals-to-be-cut-if-broadcasters-do-not-pay-for-digital-terrestrial-tv-platform-ursula\/","title":{"rendered":"TV signals to be cut if broadcasters do not pay for Digital Terrestrial TV platform \u2013 Ursula \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said the government can no longer pay for the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform therefore television signals may be cut if broadcasters fail to pay.<\/p>\n<p>She told parliament on December 11, 2023, that broadcasters currently do not pay for the platform, which has become costly to the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the broadcasters on the DTT platform pay for using it as I speak and this situation cannot continue in our current economic state.<\/p>\n<p>She added \u201cGIBA is not a broadcaster hosted on this platform. So I don\u2019t know in which capacity they would be acting. They have constituent members who are broadcasters on the DTT platform but none of them have paid a pesewa to date for being hosted on the platform so it is not correct any member being hosted on the platform has paid for it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ursula added, \u201cGovernment says it cannot continue to pay for it so if they do not pay for it, unfortunately, we may find ourselves in a situation where we cannot receive TV broadcast signals because the platform will be shut down for non-payment of the operational expenses that it is incurring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SSD\/NOQ<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said the government can no longer pay for the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform therefore television signals may be cut if broadcasters fail to pay. She told parliament on December 11, 2023, that broadcasters currently do not pay for the platform, which has become costly to the government. 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