Botswana National Broadcasting Board

Mandate

Roles (Summary)

• Act as general advisor to National Broadcasting Board
• Act as a support link between Botswana Telecommunications Authority and NBB
• Recommend code of conduct
• Monitor global broadcast developments
• Broadcast representation nationally, regionally and internationally

  Licensing

• Public broadcasting
• Private broadcasting and
• Community broadcasting

  Highlights and Controversies

• 2007: National Broadcasting Board v Multichoice Botswana. The Board issued a broadcasting licence to Multichoice in 2005, and subsequently, in 2007, made an order setting aside the decision to issue the licence. The Court of Appeal decided that

• 2008 - Digital Migration Strategy: The NBB highlighted the need for the development of the digital migration strategy to the Minister at a meeting in December 2007. The BTA is expected to play a significant role in this task

  Botswana's ISDB-T

• Supports ISDB-T broadcast.
• MPEG-2/ MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 HD/ SD video.
• DiVX Compatible with 480i/ 480p/ 720p/ 1080i/ 1080p video formats. Auto and Manually scan all available TV and radio channels.
• Aspect ratio 16:9 and 4:3.
• 1000 channels memory.
• Parental control.
• Teletext/ Bit Map Subtitle.
• Compliant with ETS1.
• Supported 7 days EPG fiction.
• VBI Teletext support 6 MHz software setting auto/ manual program search.
• Multi language supported.