Breaking DSO jinx at NBC with innovative licensing - By AZUH AMATUS

NBC DG, EMEKA MBA

By AZUH AMATUS

I have watched and observed with dismay and keen interest the unwarranted attacks, condemnation and persecution of the Emeka Mba led NBC by the NCC and some powerful forces who see Nigeria as their private estate.

Commendations as NBC holds two-day workshop on digitization

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By AZUH AMATUS: It was commendations, plaudits and encomiums for the Emeka Mba-led National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), as it successfully concluded a two-day workshop on digitization.

Trending photos: Leading speakers at NBC workshop on digitization

Mac Emakpore delivering his paper at the workshop

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Applause as NBC issues licence to new satellite broadcast operator

NBC DG, Emeka Mba

To further expand the choice of consumers of satellite broadcast services in the country, the National Broadcasting Commission on Wednesday issued an operating licence to a new operator, Chapters Digital Nigeria Limited.

At a ceremony to present the licence, Director General of NBC, Mr. Emeka Mba, said the licence was being issued at a critical time when Nigeria was in transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in accordance with the directive of the International Telecommunications Union.

Opinion: Lessons from Africast 2014

DG NBC, Mr. Emeka Mba fielding questions from journalists at Africast 2014

By AZUH AMATUS: I was in Abuja recently for the tenth edition of the biannual Africast.

The well packaged event was unarguably the biggest gathering of the best and brightest minds in the nation’s broadcasting industry and beyond.

Sincerely, when I got the invitation, I thought it would be another talk shop where nothing would be achieved or implemented at the end of the day.

But to my consternation, this year’s Africast organized by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), under the leadership of cerebral and articulate Emeka Mba, turned out a huge success.

It was resoundingly attended by all the big names and top players in both public and private broadcasting organizations within and outside Nigeria.

Why we attended AFRICAST - EMCOAN

Emeka Mba, DG NBC

The President of the Electronic Media Content Owners Association of Nigeria, Mrs. Debbie Odutayo, has expressed satisfaction at the role EMCOAN played during the conference of African Broadcasters – AFRICAST – held in Abuja last week.

The conference, which was organized by the Emeka Mba-led National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) focused on the key role that quality content would play in the digitisation of broadcasting in Nigeria.

Photo News! Africast 2014 lights up Abuja

Guests at NBC sponsored Africast 2014 in Abuja

Photo News: Lovely Ushers at the NBC-powered Africast 2014

Specially-attired ushers that added colour and candour to the recently held Africast 2014 in Abuja, which was organized by the Emeka Mba-led National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)

Encomiums for Mba, NBC as Africast 2014 kicks off in Abuja

DG NBC Mr. Emeka Mba (Expect exclusive photos from Africast 2014 opening ceremony, tomorrow)

It was indeed the gathering of the very best and brightest in the nation’s broadcast industry and beyond as this year’s Africast kicked off in Abuja on Tuesday, October 21, amid plaudits and encomiums for the Mr. Emeka Mba-led National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), organizers of the historic event.

The theme of this year’s event, which was officially declared open by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim is: Digital Broadcast Content: Production, Sourcing and Delivery.

Emeka-led NBC partners MIPCOM for better entertainment content as Africast begins tomorrow

R-L:DG NBC, Emeka Mba and Maduegbuna at the event

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has announced a major working relationship that it reckons would revolutionalise the entertainment and broadcast environments in Nigeria. Speaking at a recent meeting with stakeholders in Lagos, Mr. Emeka Mba, director general of the NBC revealed the commission’s readiness to work with MIPCOM, a TV and entertainment market, essentially a content forum for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content.

MIPCOM provides the people involved in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry a market and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level. It normally lasts four days.

Mba who emphasised the importance of Nigeria being part of MIPCOM and hosting Africast-which comes up between October 21 and 23 in Abuja- said every stakeholder must take advantage of the opportunities that come with digitization even as the transition date to digital broadcasting gets closer.

Dimgba Igwe:Emeka Mba, leading entertainers mourn …Want killer apprehended

Dimgba Igwe

The recent killing of Pastor Dimgba Igwe, 58, the Associate Publisher of Entertainment Express and Sunday Express Newspapers, by a hit and run driver, while jogging in his Okota, Lagos neighbourhood has continued to attract wide spread condemnations.

Some leading entertainers and celebs who spoke with SHOWBIZPLUSng paid glowing tributes to the departed veteran journalist and respected columnist. They also called on the government to immediately fish out the heart less killer of the father of four from Abia State.

Fun, excitement as GOtv berths in Makurdi

Cheer Ladies at the launch of GOtv in Makurdi, Benue State...recently

Home to one of Africa’s most decorated and successful Afro pop artistes, Innocent Idibia otherwise known as 2baba, one could expect nothing but a star-studded launch for GOtv in the Benue State capital, Makurdi, recently, this SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report.

 To mark the launch of its service in the city of Makurdi, GOtv on Wednesday, 20 August 2014 held an open air concert at the Cool-off Park. Hosts for the event were Radio Benue’s On-air-personality, Henry Ipole aka H316, Archbishop of the Microphone Diocese supported by comedian Eneche.

GOtv berths in Ilesa, Ede, Iseyin excites subscribers

GM GOtv, Amkpa

GOtv, during its recent launch in Abeokuta announced that it will be embarking on a rapid roll-out across Nigeria in readiness for the digital migration being championed by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

 While keeping to its promise to subscribers, on Monday, August 11, GOtv switched on its signals in Ilesa, Ede and Iseyin, thus further deepening its penetration of Osun and Oyo States.

According to a press statement sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng, this takes the number of cities covered by GOtv to 24, including Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Enugu, Benin, Aba, Owerri, Kano, Kaduna, Onitsha, Asaba, Uyo, Abuja, Calabar, Osogbo, Ife, Ogbomoso, Akure, Oyo, Jos and Abeokuta.

GOtv serenades Abeokuta with exciting contents

GM, Elizabeth Amkpa (m) addressing the media at the launch of GOtv in Abeokuta recently, with her colleagues

GOtv has launched its services in Abeokuta, the rock city, offering quality and exciting programming at an affordable price of N6,900. For N6,900, subscribers can get a GOtv decoder, outdoor GOtenna and one month subscription to the GOtv Plus bouquet.

General Manager GOtv Nigeria, Mrs Elizabeth Amkpa explained to SHOWBIZPLUSng at the launch that GOtv is enabling the Nigerian government to achieve a speedy migration from analogue to digital broadcasting using the latest technology DVB-T2, emphasising that digital migration will change the outlook to television entertainment in Nigeria.