{"id":5644,"date":"2011-10-18T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2011-10-18T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T08:05:10","slug":"sata-gives-banned-malawian-opposition-tvradio-licence-to-broadcast-from-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/sata-gives-banned-malawian-opposition-tvradio-licence-to-broadcast-from-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sata gives banned Malawian opposition TV\/radio licence to broadcast from Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5646\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/atupele_muluzi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5646\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5646\" title=\"atupele_muluzi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/atupele_muluzi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atupele Muluzi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Newly elected Zambia President Michael Sata has granted Malawi\u2019s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) a television broadcasting licence, UDF presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi has confirmed to Malawian media.<\/p>\n<p>The development means Joy-TV, which Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) denied local television broadcasts in 2007, will be beaming its programmes from Chipata in Zambia via satellite.<br \/>\nIn an interview on Sunday, Atupele, who is son to former President Bakili Muluzi, said he forwarded his request when he had gone to congratulate President Sata on his election.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I went to convey my congratulations for the election, as you know that he is a long time old friend to former president Dr Bakili Muluzi, I was extremely well received by His Excellency [Sata] who knows well how the situation is here.<br \/>\n\u201cI [therefore] did ask him if it was possible to allow us to be broadcasting from Chipata, a television which he accepted and he even informed our Malawi\u2019s High Commissioner [David Bandawe] of that development,\u201d Atupele said.<br \/>\nLast week Sata refused to attend the COMESA summit in Malawi saying he was a prohibited immigrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected Zambia President Michael Sata has granted Malawi\u2019s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) a television broadcasting licence, UDF presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[894,1278,961,1279],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bakili-muluzi","tag-joy-tv","tag-macra","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}