The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) may soon bring back the payment of TV licence after putting it on hold for many years.
It is mandatory to pay TV licence once you own a TV set.
Currently, domestic TV users are required to pay between GH¢36 and GH¢60 for one or more TV sets in the same house every year. TV set repairers and sales outlets are also to pay an annual sum of between GHc60 to GHc240 while commercial TV operators are expected to pay GHc36 per annum for each TV.
The public have always kicked against the collection of TV licence by the state broadcaster, resisting it on two different occasions in 2015 and 2019.
Giving a hint on the re-introduction of the fee, GTV Ghana shared a flyer on its official twitter page on May 4, 2024 which read ‘Payment of TV licence, your civic responsibility’.
Some time back, the Acting Director-General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Augustin Yamson said GBC badly needed the TV Licence fee to enable the Corporation to concentrate more on Public Service Broadcasting and also improve content.
According to Section 1(a) of the TV licensing Act 1966 (NLCD 89) as amended, ‘Any person who contravenes any provision of this law or regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year’.
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— GTV Ghana (@GTV_Ghana) May 4, 2023
SOURCE: Kasatintin.com
