THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY TELEVISION ON THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION IN IDIDEP LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

This study focuses on the Community Television as a Local Forum for Media Information. It is a case study of Ididep viewing centre. It examines how much use the local people make use of the centre especially in terms of information dissemination and whether the total effect of the centre of the lives of the people has been positive or negative. It also examines the present structure and organization of television in the country and highlights weakness which arise from a non- appreciation of the information needs of the people to whom television messages should be directed. It also explores the ways by which existing media facilities could be effective harnessed to run a system that would meaningfully penetrate the rural areas. Highlighting the lack of creativity and initiative among television service policy makers, it proposes some strategies for making television more progressively from studies to individual households.