Comparative Study Of The Performance Of Government Owned And Privately Owned Broadcasting Media Organization

Since the emergency of broadcast media in Nigeria, it has been a tool in the hand of government, whether the government at the central, regional or state level with the core objective to serve the power that be rather than checkmating the government and serve as the voice of the voiceless. Government used it as its megaphone, extension of their ministry of information and propaganda machinery. However, one of the ways to curb government excess control and ineffective of broadcast media was the deregulation of the sector like print media. In 1992, General Ibrahim Babangida, deregulate the elect…