Analogue Broadcasting Deadline: NTA Collaborates With Star Times

The Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in collaboration with Star Times Digital Television Service, is set to take digital television network to communities to fast-track the 2015 deadline for ending analogue broadcasting in Nigeria.

General Manager of NTA/Star Times Digital Satellite Television Service, Andy Wu Jin, who disclosed this in Benin, added that the joint venture would soon bring cheap digital satellite television service to community dwellers in Edo and Delta states.

“Star Times is again up to the rescue of making sure every Nigerian is not left behind in the great revolution as the nation approaches 2015 which is the deadline for ending analogue broadcasting,” Wu Jin said.

He disclosed that Irrua and Ekpoma in Edo Central and Auchi in Edo North and Agbor and Sapele in Delta State would soon start to enjoy digital satellite television provided by NTA/Star Times collaboration.

Mr. Wu Jin said Star Times has gained wide acceptability in Edo State although it plunged into the Benin City PayTV market late in 2011 in conjunction with NTA, the largest television broadcast Network in Africa with its novel digital terrestrial TV technology which does not require the use of a dish, adding that subscribers have commended the broadcast’s weather-friendly, plug and play, pocket-friendly as well as portability features which is not comparable with existing digital satellite TV systems.

Wu Jin who disclosed that the organization was working hard at improving services to their ever growing customers, also announced a bumper package of gifts for new and old customers to help boost sales for their dealers.

—JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin