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    "id": 325458,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/325458/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogari",
    "speaker_title": "11 Tuesday, 2nd October, 2012 The Assistant Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 385,
        "legal_name": "Simon Ogari Arama",
        "slug": "simon-ogari"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) television signal has been poor for viewers located five kilometers away from the transmitting site at Kanamkemer which is two kilometers from Lodwar town. (b) The 500 Watts UHF transmitter serving Turkana County is located near Lodwar town at Kanamkemer. The transmitter developed a technical problem in April 2012. The problem was diagnosed to be burnt components on the combiner which is part of the transmitter. The transmitter’s combiner combines three power amplifiers of the transmitter to give out the rate power of 500 Watts. The spare part was delivered in September 19th 2012 and was installed in the transmitter on 20th September. The transmitter is doing 580 Watts over and above its rated power of 500 Watts. The spare combiner had to be imported and due to the manufacturing logistics in Europe, coupled with August holidays, KBC tried to repair the combiner locally so as to remain on air as they wait for the delivery of the spare part. After the repair, the combiner could only give an output power of 380 Watts against the rated power of 500 Watts. (c) KBC intends to replace the current analogue transmitter with DVB-T2 Transmitter in the ongoing digital terrestrial TV migration in the course of the year 2013. However, before that, we aim to beef up transmission by end of January next year by installing a transmitter of 3 Kilowatts to cover a radius of 50 kilometres. The DVB-T2 Transmitter will be of high ratings and will realize a bigger coverage area. We shall also have the other free-to-air content providers, including NTV, KTN and Citizen TV available to the viewers in this region on KBC digital terrestrial TV platform, once it is rolled out."
}