An advertisement running on Citizen TV, NTV, KTN and QTV telling audiences they will be off air after CAK allegedly switched off their broadcast. | image source: nation.co.ke
The African Digital Network consortium risks losing broadcast signal distribution licenses for going off air Saturday, ICT Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has said.
Addressing a media briefing Sunday afternoon Mating’i said the decision by Citizen TV, KTN, NTV and QTV to go off air amounts to blackmail and contempt of a court order.
Matiang’i further said that an advert posted by the consortium explaining the reasons for being off air are untrue.
“The three media houses opted to screen inaccurate and misleading messages in an effort to incite the public. Both switching themselves off the digital transmission and screening inaccurate messages is illegal and a breach of their licenses,” Matiang’i said.
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