GBC's GARDEN CITY RADIO ORGANIZES OPEN DAY/EXHIBITION

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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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