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UCC Bans Split-Screen Advertising on NBS TV, Sets Precedent for All TV Stations Regulator rules split-screen ads during news and current affairs breach UCC Advertising Standards 2019, orders immediate compliance and warns of sanctions.

A photo collage of Uganda Communications Commision Executive Director, Nyombi Thembo and NBS TV proprietor, Mr. Kin Kariisa.

The Uganda Communications Commission has banned NBS Television from airing split-screen adverts during its news and current affairs programmes, ruling that the practice violates the UCC Advertising Standards 2019 and the Uganda Communications Act. In a decision that now sets a binding precedent for the wider broadcasting industry, the regulator has also directed all television stations in Uganda to immediately stop the practice during news and current affairs programming. The decision follows an arbitral complaint filed by Adlegal International Limited against NBS Television Limited, accusing the broadcaster of repeatedly violating the Uganda Communications Commission Advertising Standards 2019 by airing split-screen…

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Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.

His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.

Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.

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