GBC Is 83 Years Today The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation is eighty-three years today. On July 31st, 1935 Broadcasting began in Ghana from a wired relay station opened in Accra. The brain behind the introduction of broadcasting in Ghana, was the then Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Arnold Hodson, affectionately known as the "Sunshine Governor". Transmission was received through a Rediffusion Box. By 1700GMT on that historic day, gramophone records comprising of martial and light music were relayed and exactly 1745GMT the voice of Sir Arnold Hodson came through to break the suspense with this explicit message: “One of the main reasons for introducing the Relay Service is to bring News, Entertainment and Music into the homes of all and sundry. This will bring to an end the barriers of isolation and ignorance in the path of progress and also to enable the people of Gold Coast to improve on their very rich cultural music". The Broadcasting Service was code-named Radio "ZOY". It was manned by eight technicians and housed on 9th Road near the Ridge Police Station in Accra. Broadcasting first begun in four Ghanaian languages namely Fanti, Twi, Ga, Ewe and Hausa. Landmarks 1935 : Radio ZOY Established (BH-1) 1939-40 : British Government built BH-2 (now known as Old House) 1943 : Local Languages broadcast introduced 1946 : Information Service Department handled Administration of GBC 1953 : Gold Coast Broadcasting System Established as a Department 1955 : Establishment of Engineering Training School 1956 : Audience Research Department set up 1956 : GBC News unit set up 1958 : Broadcasting House (BH-3) built 1960 : Mr.W.F.Coleman appointed first Ghanaian D-G 1961 : External Service 1962 : GBC Reference Library established 1965 : GTV inaugurated 1965 : Rural Broadcasting introduced 1966 : Television Licensing Decree, N.L.C.D 89 1967 : Commercial Broadcasting introduced 1971 : Public Relations Department set up 1975 : Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (Amendment) Decree, N.R.C.D 334 1985 : Colour Television Introduced 1985 : URA Radio established 1986 : Accra FM Radio established 1987 : Apam fm station commissioned 1989 : Installation of satellite TV dish to receive CNN 1991 : Television Licensing Regulations, LI 1520 1994 : Dormaa Ahenkro Community station commissioned 1994 : Twin-city radio commissioned 1995 : Radio GAR now Uniiq Fm goes stereo 1995 : Radio Savanna commissioned 1996 : Radio Central commissioned 1996 : Radio Volta Star commissioned 1997 : Installation of satellite TV dish to receive Deutshe welle 1997 : Installation of satellite TV dish to receive Worldnet 1998 : Installation of satellite TV dish to receive CFI 2001 : Radio BAR commissioned 2001 : Radio Upper West commissioned 2002 : Radio GAR re-commissioned to Uniiq FM 2002 : Radio Obonu FM commissioned 2002 : Radio Sunrise FM commissioned 2010 : Pilot Digital Terrestrial Transmission DTT(MPEG2, DVB-T)started 2010 : DDT Committee Inaugurated 2010 : Upgrading and Expansion of DTT (MPEG2, DVB-T)to Greater Accra, parts of Central, Eastern and Ashanti Regions 2010 : GBC marks Diamond Jubilee 2010 : GTV Sports (All Sports Digital Channel)established 2011 : GBC24 (24hours News Digital Channel) established 2011 : Obonu Fm marks 10th Anniversary 2011 : GBC Life (All Life Digital Channel)established 2014 : GTV Govern Digital Channel Established 2014 : Obonu TV Digital Channel Established 2014 : GBC Digital Set Top Boxes Launched 2015 : GBC celebrates 80th Anniversary 2015 : TV Licence Fee revised from 30p to 36 Ghana Cedis a year gbcghanaonline ---DECRYPTED---