Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has urged television stations across the country to tap into the opportunity, digitization has to offer.
At a gala night held in Lagos, he said “the
future is brighter because this Administration’s commitment to ensuring
that Nigeria successfully transits from Analogue to Digital Television
will bring immense benefits.
Mohammed
said that with the successful digitization in 2017, at least one
million jobs will be created in the next three years through the
manufacturing of set top boxes that will be required for each of the
television sets in 24 million households.
“These
jobs will come from TV Production. Digitization will make it possible
to have at least 180 state channels, 30 regional channels and at least
10 National channels, catering for local music, news, film, children
programming and sports. The need for content to feed these stations will
translate to a huge number of jobs.
The jobs we are talking about will come from Film Production. From VHS tapes to VCD and DVD, Nollywood will next move to Push and Subscription Video On Demand on the STB and online, bringing piracy to the lowest ever, making distribution cheaper and easier and putting much more money into the hands of film producers, who will create more films of better quality, ultimately surpassing 2000 movies a year. The number of writers, lightning and sound technicians, cameramen, editors, actresses, actors, insurance costume will simply blow up,” he said.
The jobs we are talking about will come from Film Production. From VHS tapes to VCD and DVD, Nollywood will next move to Push and Subscription Video On Demand on the STB and online, bringing piracy to the lowest ever, making distribution cheaper and easier and putting much more money into the hands of film producers, who will create more films of better quality, ultimately surpassing 2000 movies a year. The number of writers, lightning and sound technicians, cameramen, editors, actresses, actors, insurance costume will simply blow up,” he said.
The Minister said other advantages of digital broadcasting include savings in cost of infrastructure; improved coverage quality, better picture and sound quality, introduction of mobile broadcasting, instead of just delivering television services to fixed receivers, provision of value-added services, Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) and better utilization of frequencies.
Source(voice of Nigeria)
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