Evaluating the Role of Broadcast Media in Credible News Dissemination in Oyo State (Published)
The broadcasting medium has a significant impact on how the audience perceives the delivery of news and its reliability. Broadcast media are mass communication tools with a special duty to inform, educate, and entertain society’s citizens. The study examined the role of broadcast media in credible news dissemination in Oyo State, which examines news credibility and reliability from broadcast media in Oyo State, investigate timely and accuracy of news reports in Oyo State. A research design survey approach was employed for this study. Respondents were the general public who rely on News from broadcasting media in Oyo state. A questionnaire was utilised in the survey. Primary data was used to acquire information from the study’s respondents. Frequency tables and percentages were utilised to analyse the data. Data were computed and interpreted using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26. The investigation of the research revealed that there is no credibility or reliability from broadcast media in Oyo state. The result showed that there is satisfaction from news content, authentic information, objectivity, and balancing, ethical and professional practices are provided by broadcast media to ensure credibility of news dissemination in Oyo state. The research recommended that broadcasting media should also ensure the timely and accurate dissemination of information and that the regulating body should also oversee the way broadcasting media operate in order to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
Keywords: Broadcasting, Credibility, Journalism, news dissemination
Public Perception of Digital Switchover of Television Broadcasting in Delta State (Published)
The study examines public perception of the level of digital switch over in both public and private television broadcasting in Delta State. The researcher used survey research method to determine the sample size of 400 through the appropriate statistical method to represent the population of the study. Survey research method was employed in the collection of data because it was easier to seek people’s opinion using questionnaire. Data gathered from the study were analyzed and interpreted using simple percentage and tables. Findings from the research show that digitization will help improve accessibility, sharp picture quality, good and efficient programming. This research has revealed that not all broadcast stations in Delta State are not fully digitized; this is because of some constraints that militate against the media house such as lack of adequate funds to run the broadcast station properly. Privately owned media stations in Delta State whose major problems are lack of adequate funds/ finance according to findings, should be provided with adequate funds through the Federal annual budget allocation. Government should provide the broadcast station its full monthly subvention to fully operate maximally like other mass media organizations, because of the essential services it renders to the public.
Keywords: : digitalization, Broadcasting, binary language, public perception, switch over
Community Radios the Missing Link in Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset) (Published)
This paper looks at how the media and in particular radio broadcasts can impact positively on this new economic blue-print. The bias towards radio is because the distribution of newspapers in Zimbabwe is concentrated on major urban centres that are along the major highways thus alienating those in rural and farming communities who are a key component in selected two of the four clusters in ZimAsset.
Keywords: Broadcasting, Community Radios, Media, Sustainable Socio-Economic