– as the authority signs MoU with the Guyana Telecommunications Agency SPECTRUM fees will be paid directly to the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) from January 2020. The new payment system will be enforced as a result of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the GNBA and the Guyana Telecommunications Agency. In […]
— to provide more efficient service to broadcasters Broadcasters will soon experience more efficient service. This follows the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) between the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) and the Guyana Telecommunications Agency (GTA). The MoU was signed during GNBA’s fourth stakeholder engagement forum attended by licensed broadcasters from around Guyana. […]
The ANSA McAL Group of companies bought IRadio Inc. in August 2015 and renamed the Station MIX FM. It was operated on the 90.1 frequency in Demerara and on 91.5 in Berbice. Both of these transmitters were upgraded in December of last year, according the the company’s Press Release. This year, at the end […]
The broadcasting regulator has denied it is intimidating operators of radio and television stations. GNBA’s Chairman, Leslie Sobers Yesterday, Chairman of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), Leslie Sobers, made it clear that the Authority is not in that business. Rather, its mandate is very clear. His comments would come after accusations of censorship by […]
…GNBA denies opposition’s claims of harassment …vows to step up ‘policing’ of broadcasting spectrum Source: The Guyana Chronicle Newspapers, August 11, 2019 Chairman of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority, Leslie Sobers CHAIRMAN of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), Leslie Sobers, said the broadcasting authority is not in the business of censorship as he […]
– launches $8M ‘95.5 Intelligent Radio’ – will provide on-the-job broadcasting training Source: Department of Public Information (DPI), Guyana, Thursday, July 18, 2019 Campus radio starts today as the University of Guyana (UG) launched its radio station ‘95.5 Intelligent FM’ housed in the Centre for Communication Studies (CCS). The radio station is billed […]
– Urges hiring of PWDs CHAIRMAN of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), Attorney-at-Law Leslie Sobers, is set to meet with operators of television and broadcasting stations in Guyana, within the coming week. The consultation is aimed at learning, first-hand, from the owners what constraints they face with regard to introducing closed-captioning in their programmes […]
Head of the GNBA, Leslie Sobers, confirmed that the broadcasting authority has already retained the services of a top attorney to handle the cases. “At present, we have on record about three defaulting broadcasters,” he said. He said that radio broadcasters have generally been in compliance with the regulations –It’s the cable and television operators […]
Guyana National Broadcasting Association, (GNBA) has refuted reports that it willfully denied the Guyana Publications Incorporated, (Stabroek News), a radio broadcast licence. In response to an article published by Stabroek News last Sunday, GNBA Head, Leslie Sobers, noted that the GNBA is obliged to grant licences to persons or entities, which qualify or meet the […]
THE Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) has refuted claims that it did not want to grant a radio licence to the Guyana Publications Incorporated (GPI), the publisher of the Stabroek News newspaper. Stabroek News had reported that, Shaleeza Khan, General Manager of GPI, has been treated unfairly by the GNBA, which recently denied the company’s […]
