{"id":200151,"date":"2025-06-15T02:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-regulators-attempt-to-close-down-62-radio-stations-deeply-concerning\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T02:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:01:54","slug":"ghana-regulators-attempt-to-close-down-62-radio-stations-deeply-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-regulators-attempt-to-close-down-62-radio-stations-deeply-concerning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Regulator&#8217;s Attempt to Close Down 62 Radio Stations Deeply Concerning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) expresses deep concern over the recent regulatory confusion triggered by the National Communications Authority&#8217;s (NCA) directive for 62 radio stations in Ghana to shut down operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The MFWA finds President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s swift intervention to halt the closure of the stations both refreshing and commendable. We also welcome the Ministry of Communications&#8217; announcement of a 30-day grace period for the affected stations to regularise their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506130029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) expresses deep concern over the recent regulatory confusion triggered by the National Communications Authority&#8217;s (NCA) directive for 62 radio stations in Ghana to shut down operations. The MFWA finds President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s swift intervention to halt the closure of the stations both refreshing and commendable. We also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661427:43f956b9d356b2290a1890d8224c0218:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8083,6748,10914,4508,4509,257,10612,25529,254,8216],"class_list":["post-200151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempt","tag-close","tag-deeply","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-regulators","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stations"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661427:43f956b9d356b2290a1890d8224c0218:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}