{"id":53131,"date":"2018-09-13T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=53131"},"modified":"2018-09-13T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:38:32","slug":"television-stations-killed-the-movie-industry-socrates-safo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/television-stations-killed-the-movie-industry-socrates-safo\/","title":{"rendered":"Television Stations Killed The Movie Industry- Socrates Safo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socrate Safo talks about the role of television.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian film producer, Socrates Sarfo talks about the\u00a0country\u2019s dead movie industry. According to him, it is as a result of the emergence of way too many television. He is a board member of Zylofon Art Fund.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that most television stations get the movies produced. However, they get the movies close to nothing or nothing at all. 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