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South Africa’s long-delayed migration to digital communications technology is expected to go ahead at the end of the month but Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird said that the country was simply not ready for it.

The North West, Free State and Northern Cape have switched from analogue to digital terrestrial TV as part of SA’s digital migration programme.

After missing the 2011, 2015 and 2020 goals, the department is confident that it will meet the new target set by the president in his State of the Nation Address earlier this year.

She said over 1 million indigent households have already registered for set top boxes for when the country moves to digital by the March deadline.

Applicants that apply for a subsidised decoder before 1 November will receive one before the analogue broadcasting signals are switched off on 31 March 2022.

The Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 ruled in favour of Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) employees whose contracts were recently nullified by the former Ombudsman, Martha Chizuma, allegedly because their employment was irregular. In her investigation report on MACRA’s recruitment processes, dated May 10, 2021, the former Ombudsman invalidated 16 employment contracts after detecting several procedural illegalities and irregularities. Former MACRA Director ...

Vanguard News Digital Switch Over: As Lagos state goes digital tomorrow…. On * Corruption, poor conception may thwart process – Stakeholders By Prince Osuagwu Lagos state will officially transit from analogue to digital broadcasting tomorrow. This is part of the timetable in a renewed effort by the federal government to switch Nigeria on to the digital broadcasting system, after two failed attempts. As Lagos goes digital tomorrow, the Federal Capital City, FCT Abuja will follow, May 30th, ...

The Ministry of Communications and Digital Technologies has started with the phased switch-off of analogue television transmitters in the Free State.

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| 19 February 2021 As Covid-19 continues to have major impact on the TV industry with possibly permanently changed audience consumption and production processes, as many as 98% of broadcasting executives regard the pandemic as having been an accelerator for change creating an irreversible impact on broadcaster plans for digital migration. This is the top line findings of the annual trends survey from media consultancy services firm 3Vision which took feedback from senior TV industr...