Paul Biya to decentralise CRTV

This project is backed by a draft decree prepared by the services directly related to the head of State which will soon be signed by president Biya.

It has been the subject of broad-based consultations, much less a technical consultation of the Ministry of Communication (Mincom) in the light of its "sensitive nature", according to a source close to the subject.

In this period as it prepares to migrate to digital terrestrial television (DTT), Cameroon will also experience the advent, barring a last minute decision, of new entities created to manage the public audiovisual space.

Thus the Office of audio-visual broadcasting in Cameroon (CRTV), established by Decree (n ° PR-126-088) of 25 January 1988 from the shoulders of the Office of national television (Ctv), which itself was created by Ordinance (No. 86/005/PR) on April 26, 1986, has been called to break into three separate entities: radio, television as well as a broadcast unit.

Although placed under the leadership of the Government, these organizations should each have a Director under the coordination of a Board of Directors.

"The decision was made from the extreme pressure on Crtv in its current structure. Without forgetting the multiple cases of mal-governance which makes up the daily life of the House and gives rise to all kinds of managerial blunders, difficult to audit or understand," noted a senior official of the Presidency of the Republic under the seal of anonymity.

With simple autonomous branches, instead of the current huge branch itself topped by a Board of directors committed to the simple validation of agreed resolutions, the new directors of broadcasting will play a regulatory role for programmes in order to promote the editorial policy and the harmony of a worthy public media.

This change will be in line with the bill governing the audiovisual activity in Cameroon voted in the parliamentary session of March and to consolidate the audiovisual migration from analogue to digital.