Twenty-one persons/entities have been granted licences to broadcast via television stations, six to broadcast television signals by cable and 11 to transmit sound signals, as of December 31, 2012.
The most contentious one to date was licenses for radio, since Guyana up to 2012 had only one radio entity, and that was owned by the state.
But of the eleven granted so far, 8 are for broadcasting from Georgetown, one from Charity Essequibo, one from News Amsterdam Berbice and the final is in Linden.
This is according to information provided by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds to the National Assembly.
This was written information supplied in response to questions posed by the Alliance for Change concerning the channels and radio frequencies allocated for television and radio broadcast; the names of the individuals, companies allocated the frequencies and the date of granting the licences.
Meanwhile, the National Frequency and Management Unit has clarified that unlike the perception out there, that more than one radio stations were now owned by a single persons, it is really one radio station, but utilising additional frequencies to extend coverage beyond certain boundaries.
In other words with the help of additional frequencies, the single station will enjoy wider coverage across Guyana.
And this, the NFMU says was granted based on the application.
In the case of the licenses granted to Graham, Alphonso and Little Rock, etc, those were single frequency because the applications were for broadcasting within a single area, such as Linden, Charity and New Amsterdam.
Taken from http://www.inewsguyana.com
