Inside The National Broadcasting Commission: A Closer Look

The NationalBroadcastingCompany (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network which is owned by Comcast through NBCUniversal. The study is restricted to television broadcasting and the promotion of violence in Nigeria: An appraisal of theNationalBroadcastingCommission.Instant Share On Social Media: Can't find what you are looking for? As a former broadcast administrator, I sighed it off as a failure of supervision at that station and monitoring by the regulator, theNationalBroadcastingCommission (NBC). Monitoring the airwaves has always been a challenge for the Commission. The Acting Director-General of the commission, Armstrong Idachaba, also warned that further sanctions will be harsher and announced that the owners of AIT, DAAR Communications would be fined separately for alleged reports of a fire incident at theNational Christian Centre. Our dear NationalBroadcastingCommission (NBC) recently published a document in the media titled ‘Amendments to the 6th Edition of the NBC Code’. As is the norm with our government, NBC compiled this document without prior stakeholder consultation. TheNationalBroadcastingCommission has sanctioned a radio station, Nigeria Info, N5m for a recent remark by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia. Under the ABC Act, the public broadcaster would be run by a five-member Commission and funded predominantly by listeners’ licence fees. The Postmaster-General’s Department would be responsible for the technical side of broadcasting.