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The channel will cover an 80km radius. In an interview, ZBH’s head of engineering and ICT, Shadreck Mupeni, said viewers in Bulawayo would soon be able to watch the second television channel.

This will bring variety to television lovers around the city.
“We are happy to inform our viewers in Bulawayo that Channel 2 will start its broadcasting at Montrose Studios in March.
“This channel will be covering a radius of 80 kilometres like what is happening in Harare,” he said.

Mupeni said ZBH had already acquired equipment used to receive and broadcast the signal in Bulawayo.
“ZBH has acquired the necessary equipment and our technical team will be installing the equipment for broadcasting to start, “ he said.

Mupeni said Channel 2 would run concurrently with digitalisation of Montrose Studios, which would be digitalised to benefit Matabeleland region.
“Montrose will be the first studio to be digitalised before we go to other studios in Zimbabwe.
“We have brought engineers from Iran to assess our studio before they can start digitalising,” he said.
“We are going to get a report from the engineers advising us on the equipment to use and this would come out of this tour,” he said.

Mupeni said on completion of digitalisation Montrose would be in a position to broadcast its own news bulletins and other programmes from Bulawayo.
“Our aim as national broadcaster is to have Channel 2 covering the whole country.
“So we are to install our receiving and broadcasting equipment in other cities in Zimbabwe before we network the whole country.
“On completion of the digitalisation programme we want our studios countrywide to communicate easily  and also to inform listeners on what would be happening countrywide,” he said.

Mupeni said since independence Zimbabwe has been using analog system for broadcasting radio and television programmes.
Digitalisation is meant to improve output quality for both television and radio programmes.-Chronicle