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Montrose Studios to be digitalised
13 Dec 2010 at 20:15hrs | Views
BULAWAYO's Montrose Studios is going to be digitalised next year.
This was revealed by Mr Happison Muchechetere, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH), last week on the sidelines of the graduation for Business Environment Services (BES) Diploma in Mass Communications students at a local hotel where he was guest of honour.
"The digitalisation of Montrose Studios has long been in the plan but due to a few obstacles this has been delayed but will start at the beginning of next year and this will be done under Phase Two of the Iranian Project," said Muchechetere.
Phase Two of the digitalisation project involves digitalisation of all studios which will see state of the art equipment being installed. The CEO said that the Iranian team was going to be in the country by the end of the year to check on progress so far.
"The Iranians will be in the country by end of December to do some touch ups at Pockets Hill in Harare as the equipment that had been installed had some problems, so the engineers will be around to sort the issue out before they move over to Bulawayo," he said.
The system is set to be complete by the end of 2011.
Mr Muchechetere cleared the air on the issue of SFM being "removed" from air.
"We did not remove SFM from the air waves but it's just that we were using TelOne links that are not digital but analogue. There was no link between Harare and Bulawayo for broadcast," Muchechetere said.
The CEO also said that there was an issue of transmission in the region whereby some parts of the country do not receive a signal for both TV and radio.
He said that there was nothing that ZBH could do because transmission issues were dealt with by Transmedia.
"It is our hope that since the Minister of Finance in his budget allocated some money to Transmedia the viewers will now get reception," he said.
Mr Muchechetere said he was optimistic that the new fibre optic cables would improve transmission.
"We applaud the move to have the fibre optic cable installed as we will certainly make use of it. It will make transmission better and we will also have news broadcast live from anywhere in the country," he said.
Bordering parts of the country do not get radio and televisions signals and are dependent on neighbouring countries signals.
Meanwhile, Mr Muchechetere urged the BES graduates and practising journalists to do a lot of research when they do their stories as this will reduce the number of lawsuits against the fraternity.
"Journalists should research and be factual in their reporting not to just publish rumours that will get them into trouble. We will have few cases to answer in the courts if research is done," he said.
The graduation ceremony was also attended by Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Thaba-Moyo and BES director Mr Obert Sibanda.
This was revealed by Mr Happison Muchechetere, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH), last week on the sidelines of the graduation for Business Environment Services (BES) Diploma in Mass Communications students at a local hotel where he was guest of honour.
"The digitalisation of Montrose Studios has long been in the plan but due to a few obstacles this has been delayed but will start at the beginning of next year and this will be done under Phase Two of the Iranian Project," said Muchechetere.
Phase Two of the digitalisation project involves digitalisation of all studios which will see state of the art equipment being installed. The CEO said that the Iranian team was going to be in the country by the end of the year to check on progress so far.
"The Iranians will be in the country by end of December to do some touch ups at Pockets Hill in Harare as the equipment that had been installed had some problems, so the engineers will be around to sort the issue out before they move over to Bulawayo," he said.
The system is set to be complete by the end of 2011.
Mr Muchechetere cleared the air on the issue of SFM being "removed" from air.
"We did not remove SFM from the air waves but it's just that we were using TelOne links that are not digital but analogue. There was no link between Harare and Bulawayo for broadcast," Muchechetere said.
The CEO also said that there was an issue of transmission in the region whereby some parts of the country do not receive a signal for both TV and radio.
He said that there was nothing that ZBH could do because transmission issues were dealt with by Transmedia.
"It is our hope that since the Minister of Finance in his budget allocated some money to Transmedia the viewers will now get reception," he said.
Mr Muchechetere said he was optimistic that the new fibre optic cables would improve transmission.
"We applaud the move to have the fibre optic cable installed as we will certainly make use of it. It will make transmission better and we will also have news broadcast live from anywhere in the country," he said.
Bordering parts of the country do not get radio and televisions signals and are dependent on neighbouring countries signals.
Meanwhile, Mr Muchechetere urged the BES graduates and practising journalists to do a lot of research when they do their stories as this will reduce the number of lawsuits against the fraternity.
"Journalists should research and be factual in their reporting not to just publish rumours that will get them into trouble. We will have few cases to answer in the courts if research is done," he said.
The graduation ceremony was also attended by Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Thaba-Moyo and BES director Mr Obert Sibanda.
Source - Byo24
