[HCDX] Radio VOP charts way forward

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Radio VOP charts way forward
Published on : 2 December 2011 - 4:04pm | By RNW Africa Desk (Photo: Flickr / tuija)
http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/radio-vop-charts-way-forward

Radio VOP Executive Director John Masuku has said the company´s board is discussing 
what action to take after it was denied a licence to operate a commercial radio station by the 
Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ).

By our top partner Radio Vop

Masuku said Radio VOP´s board was yet to come up with a concrete resolution on the way 
forward after the denial of an operating licence.

"The board is meeting and discussing what action to take after we were denied an operating 
licence. We are yet to come up with a decision. I cannot pre-empt what has been discussed 
so far and what options have been put on the table," Masuku said in a telephone interview on 
Wednesday morning.

Close ties
Radio VOP and Oliver Mtukudzi´s Kiss FM were denied radio broadcast licences by BAZ 
which has since come under heavy condemnation for only granting a go-ahead to AB 
Communications and Zimpapers which have links to Zanu-PF and the state respectively.

Critics say the two will never be able to operate independently because of their close ties to 
Zanu-PF and the state which has a majority stake at Zimpapers.

But Supa Mandiwanzira with a controlling stake at AB Communications, has denied the 
charge and called on Zimbabweans to `give him a chance to broadcast and then judge him 
later.´

Media lobby groups say by denying Radio VOP and Kiss FM operating licences, BAZ is 
estranging the state´s monopoly over the airwaves.

Shortwave
As a result of government´s reluctance to open up the airwaves offshore broadcasters such 
as Radio VOP, VOA's Studio 7 and Shortwave Radio Africa are forced to broadcast on 
shortwave and have often been jammed by the government.

Critics note that Zimbabwe is the only country in southern Africa without independent or 
private broadcasters despite being the first country in the region to have a television 
broadcast as far back as the early 1960s.

South Africa, which established a television station in 1976, has several independent 
television stations and more than 100 private and community radio stations.
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