Zimbabwe: Govt to Open Up the Airwaves

27 April 2018

GOVERNMENT will soon craft a law that will accommodate new broadcasting players as well as protect content producers in the new digital era, a senior official said yesterday. Speaking at the end of a tour of digital broadcasting transmission sites in Matabeleland North at Kenmaur, Lupane, Secretary for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Mr George Charamba said the Government's conviction was on limiting entry barriers and facilitating infrastructure sharing.

He said the new law will lead to the creation of a one-stop engineering company to deal with all broadcasting issues in relation to players, as opposed to the present monopolistic set-up where Transmedia is wholly ZBC related.

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