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.

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Mac Emakpore delivering his paper at the workshop

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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.

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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.