Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe fees prohibitive - Jonathan Moyo

The Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo says there is need to review the highly prohibitive fees charged by the regulatory body, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) which are making the sector unattractive and unviable.

Professor Moyo, who was addressing members of BAZ board and management on his tour of the body's offices in the capital said after emerging from a difficult period, the country must chart a way forward in a manner that enables players in the broadcasting sector to operate viably.

Professor Moyo urged BAZ to look critically at the state of the economy in the country and reconcile that reality with how players in the sector will be assisted to grow as funding took centre stage of the meeting with the BAZ board and management.

After touring various media houses in the print and broadcasting sector, the Minister also said the final call on BAZ is significant in the fact that the authority is the overall regulator in the sector.

Accompanying the Minister on his tour at BAZ was his Deputy Supa Mandiwanzira and the Acting Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Ivanhoe Gurira.