Determination of educational broadcasting personnel, facilities and contents at Osun state television broadcasting station, Osogbo, Nigeria.

Abstract

This study examined educational broadcasting personnel, facilities and contents at Osun State television broadcasting station. Three research questions were raised and answered. Researcher-designed checklist which was validated by two educational technology experts and two media specialists was employed to elicit needed data through observation and interactions. The instrument comprises three sections (Sections A, B & C). Section A consists of ten items which collected data on qualifications of media personnel available at the station. Section B consists of fifteen items which collected data on the availability and functionality of educational media facilities at the station while Section C collected data on the programmes being transmitted on daily basis to the public in order to determine the educative ones among them. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Findings revealed that only fourteen (representing 18.2%) out of the seventy-seven media staff are educational broadcasting specialists. Also, findings revealed that there are adequate media facilities to execute educational broadcast in the station. Findings also revealed that only eleven (representing 14.7%) out of seventy-five weekly programmes being transmitted are educative contents. Based on these findings, it was recommended that professionals who can effectively plan and execute educational broadcasting should be recruited in the station, media facilities at Osun State television station should be used majorly towards discharging the educative duties of broadcast stations and that contents being transmitted to audience should not only be informative and entertaining ones but more importantly educative contents.