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NCN online radio broadcast is an embarrassment

Oct 16, 2011 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
The National Communications Network online radio broadcast is a shame and embarrassment. The online streams have been down for over a month now, and nobody seems to be aware of the situation or if they are, nobody is doing anything to bring the streams back.
The Voice of Guyana and 98.1 Hot FM have been down, and even though there is a section too for Radio Roraima, that radio station has never streamed online before.
I see this attitude and behaviour of the State radio station as one of unconcern and deliberate sabotage to the entire listenership of the radio stations in Guyana. And it is not like persons outside Georgetown can turn on their radios to listen to 98.1 FM or RR. The broadcast of VOG is so poor, and its FM broadcast (102.5 FM is not working outside G/T). That’s NCN radio for you. Just try it: VOG http://ncnguyana.com/vog.html, 98.1 FM http://ncnguyana.com/streamradio2.html, RR http://ncnguyana.com/rr.html and experience the dead ends.
Access to Information comes into question here, since not only Guyanese are being prevented from listening to their own radio stations but overseas listeners are denied access to information coming out of Guyana through the radio spectrum.
The NCN online radio stations, ever since it stopped broadcasting on JumpTV about three years ago, never had a reliable audio web stream. The current platform it is using to broadcast on the internet is a free one, and the local company is not paying, since a significant role for the web radio is being played by one Radio Guyana International in London.
However, the current problem of not streaming for over a month has nothing to do with Radio Guyana in London. The fault lies with the local company here. If and when NCN decides to spend some of the State money they receive and establish a better and more reliable online radio platform is unknown at this point.
Leon Suseran

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