The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, has appreciated the move by the governing board of the National Communication Authority to provide provisional licenses to 133 radio stations which is expected to adhere to broadcasting conditions by the authority.
According to the board has shown good faith by restoring the licenses of the affected stations after 3 weeks of their formation
“There have been a number of hurdles, but we can only express our profound gratitude to the new board, led by its Chairman, Isaac Osei Bonsu, for working with the roadmap that they came to meet.”
“Another board and its chairman could have decided that they would scrap everything and start everything which could have set us back two, three years but this board came and less than three weeks of being in office, they reviewed the progress we had made and thought that it was right, and we can only commend them for reinstating the frequency,” Mr. George said on Eyewitness News.
According to the release by the National Communication Authority, the permission has been granted to entities whose radio stations were closed down after the 2017 audit and existing stations that applied for renewal of licenses renewal after expiration.
The applicant are also expected to attend sensitization workshop on terms and conditions for FM and radio broadcast as prescribed by the authority
The stations, including Accra-based Radio Gold, Atlantis Radio, and Radio XYZ, were fined or had their licenses revoked by the National Communications Authority (NCA) following a nationwide FM Spectrum Audit in 2017.
Radio XYZ was fined GH¢ 4,090,000, Atinka FM GH¢ 14,800,000, while Radio Gold and Atlantis Radio picked up the heftiest fines with GH¢ 61,330,000 and GH¢ 60, 350,000 respectively.
Radio Gold, for example, was at the time accused of operating with a license that expired in the year 2000.
