Prof Kwame Karikari, a former GBC Director General, told host of Citi TV’s ‘Footprints’ show that it took a Japanese grant of three million dollars to help effect the transition. “And then I worked hard and got the Japanese to give us a grant of 3 million to refix the TV and introduce colour television at the time. At the time I was leaving, the contract was on, when I left in 84, by 1985 or so, they introduced this thing,” said. Records indicate that Ghana started with coloured transmission in 1985 during the Rawlings era. Later when Rawlings trasitioned after 1992 into a democrat, private media will thrive into the big industry that it is today.
