Seye Joseph
Being the first Nigerian university to obtain broadcasting license from the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission for both radio and television production, University of Lagos has promised to provide quality contents in all its programs on the institution’s television station.
The former Head of Department of Mass Communication of the institution, Prof. Ralph Akinfeleye said necessary preparations are being made for the take off of the station.
Akinfeleye said that the institution has recruited about 15 television staff, including some from the industry that are to work on full-time with students and volunteers.
“We have a content manager. For your information, as at last time, we have more than two hundred edited contents. If we start broadcasting today, I have enough that would carry us 24/7. But, we are still producing.
“In fact, we run a documentary on so many things. As we are talking now. My crew is in a meeting with the VC, as he is paying a courtesy call on them and the department, which is part of our content.
He said that content distribution of the station will be 80 percent Nigeria, 15 percent Africa, 5 percent others and they are going to jealously follow that it through.
“When you see our programme, it is going to be unique because we want participants to participate in the first campus radio channel, in sports, on drama and so many things.
Akinfeleye itemized some of the program that will be aired on the station as “the Private Hour” that will invite a professor who had a breakthrough in their discipline to explain how the discovery was made.
“We have another programme called Research Evolution; it is directed by the Director of Academics and Research, it deals with management of research”, he stated.
