| Abstract: |
Corpus literature in broadcasting indicate that the federal government deliberately extended the networks of both the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), as Nigeria’s foremost public broadcast stations to foster effective information delivery germane for popular participation in government programmes, policies and directives. This is no doubt a right step in positioning public broadcasting to brace for the challenges of the enduring democratic dispensation in Nigeria. However, the very fundamental issue of managing and financing public broadcasting to involve the people in content determination for participatory democracy to be free from government and commercial pressures either seem not to have been explored or may have not been given the appropriate emphasis required to spark-off the response of stakeholders in the direction. Thus, as its preoccupation, this paper emphasizes a meta-theoretical dimension that would establish basic premises in the direction by suggesting, among others, ways of financing and administrative modalities for repositioning public broadcasting to become a strong non-governmental public sphere and a more community-based activity within the domain of civil society, as a precondition for the emergence of a strong liberal democracy in Nigeria. |
