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10 lies being told about digital migration

  1. That the Africa Digital Network (ADN) Consortium comprising The Standard Group, The Nation Media Group and Royal Media Services are opposed to Digital Migration.

    FACT: The three media players have always acknowledged the inevitability of Digital Migration and indeed fully support the migration as best practice in broadcasting. What we have consistently opposed is the Communication Authority’s (and its predecessor CCK’s) unfair handling of the process, which has been orchestrated to favour specific interests and in total disregard of the existing local industry stakeholders.

 

  1. That we never applied to be licensed as Broadcast Signal Distributors (BSDs) and have only been seeking to delay the digital migration process:

 

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