{"id":36669,"date":"2018-08-10T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=36669"},"modified":"2018-08-10T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:28:30","slug":"ubc-to-surrender-redundant-frequency-to-parliament-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ubc-to-surrender-redundant-frequency-to-parliament-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC to \u2018surrender redundant frequency\u2019 to Parliament Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Nelson Wesonga.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Uganda Communications Commission executive director Godfrey Mutabazi has said Parliament\u2019s planned radio station will broadcast on one of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation \u2018redundant\u2019 frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>This is because all frequencies on the frequency modulation spectrum for Kampala are taken.<\/p>\n<p>Mutabazi was responding to a question by the chairperson of the House Committee on Information and Communication Technology, Annet Nyakecho on why UCC had not yet granted a license for the House radio.<\/p>\n<p>However when contacted this morning, UBC\u2019s managing director, Winston Agaba said the national broadcaster does not have any redundant frequency.<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, Parliament\u2019s Director for Communication and Public Affairs, Chris Obore said a radio station was needed to supplement private media\u2019s coverage of Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nelson Wesonga. The Uganda Communications Commission executive director Godfrey Mutabazi has said Parliament\u2019s planned radio station will broadcast on one of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation \u2018redundant\u2019 frequencies. This is because all frequencies on the frequency modulation spectrum for Kampala are taken. Mutabazi was responding to a question by the chairperson of the House Committee on Information and Communication Technology, Annet Nyakecho on why UCC had not yet granted a license for the House radio. However when contacted this morning, UBC\u2019s managing director, Winston Agaba said the national broadcaster does not have any redundant frequency. In February this year, Parliament\u2019s Director for Communication and Public Affairs, Chris Obore said a radio station was needed to supplement private media\u2019s coverage of Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":36673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}