Sen. George Khaniri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1621 to 1630 of 1873.

• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The only county not entirely covered by the current KBC TV network is Mandera. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: The other 46 counties are partially covered. (b) The Ministry has plans to expand KBC TV network to cover all the counties during the implementation of the ongoing analog to digital TV migration programme. The Ministry is seeking for the Government of Kenya (GoK) funding to enable the rollout of digital TV network to fully cover the 47 counties. The rollout is to be done in phases subject to availability of funds. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I got the hon. Member right, I think he wants to know when complete digitization will be done in Kenya. I would like to inform the House that the universal deadline for digitization is 2015, but as a country, Kenya, we have set our deadline to 2012. We believe that we will be fully digital by the end of 2012. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a free market and professionals are free to move from one company to another. We do have our terms of service which we try to improve every now and then, but we cannot stop people from seeking for greener pastures. Otherwise, I want to assure the House that we are trying to remunerate our staff very well. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, listening to the hon. Member ask that question, you wonder whether he just walked in. This is because he is asking exactly what I answered in my initial reply. I would like to take this opportunity to table a document tabulating all the counties we have and what percentage of--- view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my understanding of a digital broadcasting is that it is supposed to be an improvement to what we currently have. Therefore, what the families enjoy now is supposed to be lower in terms of quality and clarity than the digital broadcasting that we want to offer. Therefore, I want to assure the hon. Member that they will get clearer and higher quality viewing with digital broadcasting. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I was interrupted by the point of order, I was going to table a list of all the 47 counties and the percentage of coverage that the KBC has in those counties. I beg to table. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I confidently give that assurance to the hon. Member and the House. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as the national broadcaster, I want to give that assurance that we will endeavour to do so. view
• 5 May 2011 in National Assembly: I will take about five minutes, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view