Chairperson of the governing board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Bibi Shadick and Managing Director of the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU) Valmikki Singh handed out several broadcasting licences yesterday at the NFMU’s head office. Five licences were granted to television service providers TVG Guyana Inc (Channel 28), GWTV (Channel 2), Pinnacle Communications, Multi Technology Vision (MTV Channel 65) and CNS (Channel 6); two to radio operators Radio Guyana Inc and Telecor Cultural Inc; and two to cable providers Atlantic Cable Network and E-Networks Inc.
Representatives from TVG and Radio Guyana were present to accept the licences on behalf of owner Dr Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, while reporters for some media houses represented at the press conference collected for their respective entities. Those licenses that were not physically presented to an owner or representative, Shadick noted,