Digitalization: Taraba Television Set To Beat 2017 Deadline

Mr. Sylvanus Giwa, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku on Media and Publicity has said that digitalization of the state owned television, TV Tarabawill be completed before June 2017 to beat the deadline for the switchover from Analogue to digital.Giwa who disclosed this during an interactive session with Journalists yesterday in Jalingo said the state government has signed the contract for the full digitization of the state television with Pinnacle Communication Limited in December 2015 to ensure that the deadline of June 2017 was met.He added that because of the governments commitment to the project, Governor Ishaku immediately mobilized the contractor to site, adding that the project has attained 90 per cent completion.The media aid praised Pinnacle Communications Limited for delivering a quality job within a short period.Giwa explained that a digitized television and radio for the state would go a long way in not only improving quality programming but also create employment for the teeming youths that went through many forms of computer training.He said that the state government would employ at least 100 new staff after the exercise to man the new facility, while a comprehensive staff quarters would be constructed at the permanent site to ease staff accommodation problem.A staff bus is also to be provided to address staff transportation issues.While giving update on the projects, the Executive Director, Pinnacle Communications, Mr. Dipo Onifade who conducted Journalists round the project at the Taraba Television permanent site in Mallum said Pinnacle Communications, a leading communication firm in Nigeria, was committed to providing quality services to the state television.
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