Broadcasters plan lawsuit over $2.5M licensing fee

Anthony Vieira

Television broadcasters plan to mount a legal challenge to the new $2.5M annual licensing fee recently announced by the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), pioneering broadcaster Anthony Vieira said yesterday, while the main opposition APNU charged that the increase would force small stations out of business.

“We have hired attorneys to challenge the $2.5M and to challenge the way the $2.5M is implemented,” Vieira told an APNU news conference.

Vieira later identified the operators of channels 2, 7, 9, and 13