A tough talking Director General Francis Wangusi said
following a ruling by a full bench of the Supreme Court that migration
deadlines remain as set by the regulator that CA will forcibly switch off any
media house that fails to comply with the directive.
In Nairobi and major towns, the media houses will have to
switch off immediately since the deadlines to migrate had been set for 31
December 2014 and February 2, 2015.
The third phase of the migration will be on 30 March when
outlying towns like Garissa, Kapenguria, Kabarnet, Migori, Voi and Namanga will
be finally switched off analogue.
Three media houses, Nation (NTV), Royal Media (Citizen TV)
and Standard Group (KTN) have been transmitting analogue signals after
obtaining temporary orders from the Supreme Court to continue doing so until
their case was determined.
Sitting in Nairobi, the Supreme Court issued the ruling
that:
(i)
That the analogue switch-off timelines remain as
scheduled by the Authority
(ii)
That the Supreme Court has withdrawn orders
earlier issued to allow the three broadcasters to continue broadcasting on the
analogue platform
(iii)
That the Authority restores the self-provisioning
authorization and the requisite frequencies issued to the three media houses
(iv)
That the three media houses abide by ALL the
conditions that had earlier accompanied the grant of authorization for
self-provisioning
(v)
That the authority has duly complied with the
directives and orders issued by the court on 29th September 2014
Comment was not immediately available from the media houses
but notably they did not carry the news of the Supreme Court ruling in the
daytime newscasts.
“Let them come we will give them a license they go compete
with others,” Wangusi said.
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