Sam George, Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has praised the Governing Board of the National Communications Authority (NCA) for enabling the approval of licenses for 133 radio stations.
Mr. George said that the Board demonstrated good faith by approving the license in less than three weeks after being constituted.
“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.
Following a national FM Spectrum Audit in 2017, the National Communications Authority (NCA) penalized or revoked the licenses of the stations, which included Accra-based Radio Gold, Atlantis Radio, and Radio XYZ.
Radio XYZ was fined GH 4,090,000, Atinka FM GH 14,800,000, while Radio Gold and Atlantis Radio were fined GH 61,330,000 and GH 60, 350,000, respectively.
Radio Gold, for example, was accused at the time of using a license that had expired in the year 2000.
The NCA, on the other hand, announced on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, that the licenses of these stations had been granted, clearing the way for their activities in the nation.
Mr. George also thanked legislators in Parliament for their assistance in ensuring that the licenses of the impacted radio stations were granted.
According to the NCA, approval is “subject to the applicants attending a sensitization workshop on the terms and conditions of FM radio broadcasting authorizations.”
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