CBU assembly elicits concerns about cost of digital switchover

Gary Allen

The 44th Annual General Assembly of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) from August 19-22 concluded here with the re-election of Shida Bolai as President and saw concerns ventilated about the cost of the digital switchover.

A release from the Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) quoted Gary Allen, the newly elected Vice-President, at a press briefing at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) Liliendaal as saying, “Out of that it became very clear to us that across the Caribbean, digital switchover is going to cost tens of millions of dollars per territory… with (the)