GTV's collapse lesson for broadcast industry

THE television broadcast industry in Africa has had a very interesting even if turbulent history. Whereas the broadcast industry has its origins in Nigeria, where the legendary Obafemi Awolowo inaugurated Africa's first television broadcast studio, the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1950s, today despite that head start, Nigeria appears to have lost out in continental broadcast leadership.

In its place, South Africa which only got its first television stations in 1976 appears to have taken a quick surge ahead and for many years has led the continent in broadcasting.

In Nigeria for instance, many would agree that watching local television is an ordeal.

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