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The Federal Government has said its renewed Digital Switch Over, DSO, task is expected to supply astatine slightest 40 cardinal households nationwide with entree to up to 100 free-to-air tv channels.
Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Charles Ebuebu, disclosed this successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ebuebu said the revamped DSO strategy had abandoned the erstwhile terrestrial transmission exemplary successful favour of a outer based level susceptible of delivering nationwide sum from inception.
According to him, the inaugural is designed to importantly grow entree to tv services and Nigerian contented crossed the country.
“We are gunning for 40 cardinal TV households. Count 40 cardinal homes astatine a minimum. That’s what we’re targeting,” helium said.
The NBC brag explained that portion the erstwhile DSO model, launched successful 8 states, carried betwixt 24 and 28 channels depending connected location, the caller outer level is already transmitting much than 73 channels nationwide and is targeting 100 channels successful the coming months.
He noted that the earlier program relied heavy connected terrestrial broadcasting, which achieved little than a 4th of the country’s sum contempt important investments.
“After launching successful 8 states, it became wide that terrestrial broadcas...
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