Chadema's, Susan Lyimo
A special Seats legislator from the opposition Chadema, Susan Lyimo, has said Independent Television (ITV) and Channel Ten boast nationwide coverage and should be allowed to broadcast English Premier League matches.
She made the call in the National Assembly here yesterday as a supplementary question directed at the Information, Culture and Sports ministry.
The question followed an earlier one posed by Ngororongoro MP Kaika Telele, who had wanted to know why the State-owned Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam (RTD) and Television Tanzania (TVT) were not clearly heard or viewed in parts of Tanzania like Loliondo, Salen and Ngorongoro.
`Honourable Speaker, doesn�t allowing only TVT to broadcast English Premier League matches when the station does not cover the entire country amount to denying wananchi their right to view and learn from the soccer played in foreign countries?
Is it not high time the Government allowed ITV and Channel Ten to broadcast English Premier League matches as well?` asked the MP.
Responding, Information, Culture and Sports deputy minister Daniel Nsanzugwanko said TVT would continue to broadcast the English Premier League matches alone as efforts were made to enable it to cover more areas.
He admitted that reception of RTD and TVT signals were poor in parts of the country, adding that the Government was working on the issue.
`I agree with Honourable Telele that RTD and TVT reception is poor. However, it is not so only in Loliondo, Salen and Ngorongoro wards but also in various other parts of the country,` he noted.
The deputy minister blamed the problem on limited capacity of the transmission and other equipment used as well as the distance between the transmission or broadcasting stations and the respective areas.
He said the equipment to enable RTD and TVT to reach Loliondo, Salen and Ngorongoro have already been installed in Arusha and Dodoma.
The Government has already installed FM radio equipment in Arusha and Dodoma, explained Nsanzugwanko, expressing hope that the development would enable more parts of Arusha and regions like the three wards cited to receive quality RTD broadcasts.
He named other regions where the Government was finalising the installation of FM radio equipment for RTD as Kagera, Kigoma, Mara, Mbeya, Mwanza, Tabora and Tanga.
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