GBC's GARDEN CITY RADIO ORGANIZES OPEN DAY/EXHIBITION
A modern radio tudio |
The Ashanti Regional office of the Ghana
Broadcasting Corporation, G.B.C.
today, July 24, 2015, mounted an exhibition of its old and modern radio
broadcasting equipment for basic school pupils.
The exhibition which took place
at the premises of Garden City Radio was to enable the children and their
teachers better appreciate how far radio broadcasting in Ghana has traveled
over the 80 year period.
The event formed part of the 80th
anniversary of the founding of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.
The Regional
Technical Head, Madam Alberta Odom took the children and the teachers through
the processes of radio transmission from and also showed them the old equipment
including the good old ‘Akasano’ GBC
Radio One and Two Preset receiver, Reel-to-Reel, Turn Table, the Uher system which
Reporters used for recording on the field, and also the gramophone.
They were
as well taken through the modern radio transmission equipment and system in
addition to the analogue and digital television transmission set up at the
Transmitter Hall.
The children were also entertained with poems, choreography,
cadet drills as well as traditional drumming and dancing. In an address, the
Head of Programmes of GBC’s Garden City Radio, Phyllis Obaaku Amponsah, took
the participant through the genesis of radio and television broadcasting in
Ghana and how technology has dramatically evolved over the 80 year period with
GBC as the leader.
Madam Amponsah emphasized also the main responsibility of
the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation which is to galvanize the citizenry around
the national socio-economic, unity and peace agenda.
It is for this and other
good reasons that the people must accept as one of their civic responsibilities
to pay television license fee.
This, she said, will empower the GBC to better
serve the people and live up to its core mandate as a national broadcaster.
In
an interview, both the children and the staff expressed satisfaction and
appreciation for how far electronic broadcasting in Ghana has transformed from
1935 till date. They also wished GBC a happy 80th anniversary.
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