IMPACT OF DIGITIZATION OF THE BROADCASTING MEDIA IN NIGERIA. A STUDY OF NIGERIA TELEVISION AUTHORITY (NTA ASABA)

 

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1	Background of the Study	1
1.2	Statement of the Problem	6
1.3	Objective of the Study	6
1.4	Research Questions	7
1.5	Scope of the Study	7
1.6	Significance of the Study	7
1.7	Operational Definition of Terms	8
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1	Introduction	9
2.2	Review of Concepts	9
2.2.1	The Concept of Digitization	9
2.2.2	The Concept of Broadcasting Media	13
2.3	Review of Related Studies	14

 

 

 

 

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2.4	Theoretical Framework	15
2.5	Summary of Literature Review	16

 

 

CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

 

3.1	Introduction	17
3.2	Research Design	17
3.3	Population of Study	17
3.4	Sampling Technique/Sample Size	18
3.5	Description of Research Instrument	18
3.6	Validity/ Reliability of Data Gathering Instruments	18
3.7	Method of Data Collection	19
3.8	Method of Data Analysis	19

 

 

CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION

 

4.1	Introduction	20
4.2	Data Presentation and Analysis Demographic Data	20
4.3	Discussion and Findings	31

 

 

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND

 

RECOMMENDATION

 

5.1	Introduction	33
5.2	Summary of Findings	33
5.3	Conclusion	33
5.4	Recommendations	34
5.5	Suggestion for Further Studies	35
References		36
Appendices		37

 

 

 

 

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	LIST OF TABLES
Table 4.1.1:	Showing Questionnaire Administration	20
Table 4.2.1:	Sex Distribution of Respondents	20
Table 4.2.3:	Age Distribution of Respondents	21
Table 4.2.4:	Showing Educational Qualification of Respondents	21
Table 4.2.5:	Showing Marital Status of Respondents	22
Table 4.2.6:	showing Occupational Distribution of Respondents	22
Table 4.2.7:	Showing Response of those who have DVD Machine	23
Table 4.2.8:	Showing Response on difference between DVD Machine and VHS
	Machine	23
Table 4.2.9:	Response   of   those   who   said   “Yes”24		to
Table 4.2.10:	Showing Response on whether DVD gives better audio visual
	Transmission	24
Table 4.2.11:	Showing Response on whether Digital Television gives higher
	Image quality than analogue	25
Table 4.2.12:	Response rate in differences in sound quality between digital
	television and analogue Television	25
Table 4.2.13:	Response rate of those who agree that NTA Asaba broadcasting
	station have computer equipment.	26
Table 4.2.14:	Response rate on the use of computer component i.e. flash drive in data
	gathering and processing	26
Table 4.2.15:	Response for those who think Computer storage and retrieval
	system is faster	27
Table 4.2.16: Response rate on if Telephone (Mobile Phones) erased or improved
	information gathering?	27

 

 

 

 

 

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Table 4.2.17:  Response Rate on if the Operators of Gadgets are Computer
Literate	28
Table 4.2.17:  Response rate on if recruitment of computer literates and digital
technologist promote success in transmission.	28
Table 4.2.18:  Response Rate on if digitalization integrate the computer and
television for improved services	29
Table 4.2.19:  Response Rate on if NTA Asaba Broadcasting Station have OB
Van	29
Table 4.2.20:  Response rate on those who agree that digital OB Van is less
painstaking in terms of operation than analogue equipment.	30
Table 4.2.21 Response rate on Internet reception in Nigeria.	30
Table 4.2.22:  Response rate on the audio and visual quality of a Digital
Television	31

 

 

Abstract

 

 

The purpose of embarking on this study was to provide a well-detailed account on the impact of digitization of the Broadcasting Media in Nigeria. The study ascertained the level of media digitization in Nigerian Television Authority, Asaba (NTA) in this Era of ICT and internet operations. The researcher used survey research design to enable her determine the sample size which is 150 through the appropriate statistical method to represent the population of the study. Survey Research Method was employed in

 

the collection of data because it is easier to sou questionnaire. Data gathered from the study were analyzed and interpreted using

 

simple percentage and tables. Also summary of findings, conclusion and recommendations were made on the study for future studies.

 

CHAPTER ONE

 

INTRODUCTION

 

• Background of the Study

 

Unlike many other inventions throughout history, the history of the television

 

credits many inventors instead of just one. In this case, there were many inventors working on the idea of watching pictures on the screen.

 

 

 

The earliest proposal was in 1908, in a paper by A.A Campbell-Swinton which postulated the use of Cathode rays. The First Practical demonstrations of television, however, were developed using electromechanical methods to scan, transmit, and reproduce image. As electronic camera and display tubes were perfected, electromechanical television gave way to all-electronic systems in nearly all applications.

 

 

 

The beginnings of mechanical television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby by Smith in 1873, the

 

invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 and John Logie Baird’s demonstration of televised moving Images in 1926. (Wikipedia, 2010).

 

 

 

A 23 year old German University student, Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884. Although he never built a

 

working model of the system, variations of Nipkow’s spinning–disk “image rasterizer” for television became exceedin

 

1939. Constantin Perskyi coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the international world fair in Paris on August

 

 

 

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25, 1900. Perskyi’s paper reviewed the existing el mentioning the work of Nipkow and others.

 

 

 

However, it was not until 1907 that developments in amplification tube technology, by Lee Deforest and Arthur Kom among others, made the design practical. The first demonstration of the instantaneous transmission of still Sillhoutte images was by Georges Rigrioux and as a Fournier in Paris in 1909, using a rotating mirror –drum as the scanner and a matrix of 64 selenium cells as the receiver.

 

 

In 1911, Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a television

 

system that used a mechanical mirror –drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin’s

 

words, “very crudewiresto theimages”“BraTube”nover(Cathodetubeor ray “CRT”) in the imagesreceiverwerenotpossible. Movingbecause,the scanner,

 

“the             sensitivity s eleniumwasnot  cellenoughwasMarchand25,verythelag

 

1925, Scottish Inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge’s DepartmentreinLondon.ATsto

 

& T’s bell Telephone tonelaboratoriesstillimagesoftransparenciestransmit in May 1925. On June 13 of that year, Charles Frances Jenkins transmitted the

 

silhouette image of a toy windmill in motion, over a distance of five miles from a naval radio station in Maryland to his laboratory in Washington, using a lensed disk scanner with a 48-line resolution.

 

 

 

However, if Television is defined as the live transmission of moving images with continuous tonal variation, Baird first achieved this privately on October 2, 1925. But strictly speaking Baird had not yet achieved moving images on October 2. His scanner worked at only five images, per second, below the threshold required to give

 

 

 

 

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the illusion of motion usually defined as at least 12 images per second. By January, he had improved the scan rate to 12.5 images per second.

 

 

 

Television Broadcasting in Nigeria started with the initiative of the first Western Region premier Chief Obafemi Awolowo who on October 31, 1959 launched television broadcasting at Ibadan the head quarters of the region. The Western Region went into partnership with the Overseas Rediffusion Limited. The Western Nigerian Radiovision services limited were created with the responsibility of radio and television broadcasting under one management.

 

 

 

Nigeria as the giant of Africa has to her credit, the first television outfit in Africa, the Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) on NTA Ibadan. The emergence of what is known today as Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) was borne out of the sheer desire to cater for the crying needs of variegated audience in terms of News gathering, packaging and transmission; this became the second oldest station after (WNTV) resuming transmission on 1^st October, 1960. The Degree No 24 of 1977 caused all existing television stations in the country to be taken over by the federal government and then led to a change of name to Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

 

 

 

However, television broadcasting in Nigeria since inception has been transmitting through analogue television which use complete waves to transmit pictures and sounds. The major drawback of this is that location plays an integral factor, disabling, distorting images and audio on Television in rural areas (Kombol: 2008, P. 13).

 

 

 

 

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Over the years, television transmission had grown from strength to strength. It moved from monochrome (black and white) to colour transmission and today we talk of Digitization.

 

 

 

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) a United Nations Organization body responsible for co-ordinating the use of Telecommunication among nations in its 17^th plenipotentiary conference in Turkey, ratified a treaty engendering the digitization of broadcast in every member state before 2015. In consonance with the above Treaty and with the intent to beat this deadline, the

 

national Broadcasting broadcast Commission regulatory body

 

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