By Staff Reporter
CHINHOYI legislator, Leslie Mhangwa has quizzed the rationale behind paying for the compulsory purchasing of ZBC licenses saying it is not important since the national broadcaster has long lost its relevance.
The Broadcasting Services Amendment Bill , which has sailed through parliament makes it mandatory for motorists to acquire car radio licences before buying insurance or a vehicle license disc
But Mhangwa questioned the motive which he says is coming at a time when the national broadcaster’s content is already irrelevant.
“Is it necessary to burden motorists through this? If we have an amendment, is it not an opportunity to take away that clause,” asked Leslie Mhangwa, the MP for Chinhoyi.
But in defence, Wisdom Samanyawu the ZBC ’s head of licensing argued the move is very noble.
“I must say that the public broadcaster ZBC is still relevant and is working through all means possible to remain relevant.
“We still command a very huge audience not only in the towns but we are spread across the whole country.
“We are at the moment focusing on programming that the audience is indicating ‘that we want this’ and we are fine tuning the content so that we provide,” he said.
