Chairman of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Leslie Sobers yesterday said that broadcasters who fear revocation of licences should be more concerned about the content they air than with the provisions of the recently passed amendments to the broadcast legislation.
“The revocation of licence is always a possibility. It did not originate with this amendment. We have a file of violators which we have been compiling and whom we have been writing. If licences are revoked, it would be based on content violations,” Sobers told Sunday Stabroek yesterday, a day after the passage of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill, following a fierce debate in the National Assembly.
He explained that the monitoring unit of the GNBA has been paying close attention to those who air alcohol advertisements during time periods when children may be watching, those who would have been regularly making incendiary or race baiting comments and those who would have been airing indecent language.
