Kenya television network popularly known as KTN seems to have gone on panic mode after losing their top anchors Swaleh Mdoe, Catherine Kasavuli and Louis Otieno to the relatively young Citizen television.
KTN is now the home of blunders as the station makes major changes in its news production and presentation which has caused laughable mistakes that were glaring in its bulletin last night, including using wrong footage to sound going off and even echoes as they struggled through the maiden new format CNN-like live news edition.
It is worth noting that all these changes started when the top anchors left the station and many saw it as a necessary step to ensure that the anchors move was not quickly followed by the viewers hence the new presentation which seems to have heavily “borrowed” from the cable news network, CNN way of news presentation.
However, Kenya's television viewers are a sophisticated lot who will not switch stations just because their favorite anchor has. Most viewers stick to stations because of their form of presentation and most of all, the content of their news items.
Citizen has never been popular with the majority as it is considered a government-friendly station in that its owner, SK Macharia is a bossom buddy to president Kibaki. The station was extensively used as a propaganda tool for the government during the referendum campaigns along with the national broadcaster, Kenya broadcasting corporation.
KTN should not panic but instead maintain their boldness in news coverage and they will realize that there is much more to a station than popular anchors. On the contrary, they can nurture those they have been left with as there is a lot of potential and talent in them.
Beatrice Marshal, Anne Ngugi, Ahmed Darwesh and Lilian Muli are among the most promising anchors in the country and have the ability to maintain the standards at KTN. In this bloggers view, KTN should never have panicked from the start, and should have just continued doing what you have always been doing and everything would have been fine.
Introducing the new format need not have been hurried to coincide with Catherine Kasavuli and Loius Otieno’s maiden appearance on Citizen yesterday. I didn’t catch it, did any of the readers, and if so, what do they think?
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Narc Kenya Woes Intensify As Cabinet Minister Says That He Will Stop Paying Monthly Subscriptions
Sports minister Maina Kamanda is also sick and tired of his party of choice. So disgusted is he that he that the usually fiercely loyal minister surprised all and sundry yesterday when he said that he was considering stopping his monthly subscription payments to the party if it does not release its election calendar immediately.
He at the same time came out in support of his trade colleague, Mukhisa Kituyi who was recently unceremoniously dropped as party chairman and replaced by an unknown Baringo East MP Asman Kamama.
According to Kamanda, Kituyi was shown the door because of his stand of agitating for elections as soon as possible and before the general elections expected in December this year.
The caustic Starehe legislator also alleges that Narc Kenya is being controlled by five members of parliament and if the past events are anything to go by, its easy to guess who are among those five mps. Are ministers Njenga Karume and John Michuki listening to Kamanda?
It seems just like ODM-Kenya, Narc Kenya's woes are far from over. The main problem seems to be rotating on the issue of elections which has become so thorny that it has been postponed twice as the modalities of how to go about them is perhaps the party's biggest headache.
Narc Kenya could have an outright presidential candidate in Mwai Kibaki but the biggest contention will be the position of his deputy as many do not have confidence in his present assistant Moody Awori and there are those eyeing the slot like Kituyi and agriculture minister Kipruto arap Kirwa who are the strongest agitators for polls while a visibly shaken Awori is on the opposing side
There are those who are saying that the whole problem of elections in Narc-Kenya has been brought about by the vice president’s slot where all the over ambitious politicians in the party see the best way of becoming president in 2012 is by being vice president now and praying that Kibaki wins this years general elections.
That is why you have people like professor George Saitoti screaming from roof tops that he is going for the party's chairmanship post so as to position himself for the vice presidency position, a post he held for several years in president Moi's administration but was dropped at the crucial eleventh hour in the dramatic professor-kimya incidenty at Kasarani. Uhuru Kenyatta was then hurriedly anointed as Moi’s successor.
Awori is also responsible for the jostling among politicians for his seat as he had earlier indicated that he would retire from politics this year and initiate his son into the murky world by supporting him for the Funyula parliamentary seat which the VP holds. Awori later abruptly changed his mind.
My information on the ground is that Awori could easily lose his parliamentary seat which has attracted a strong field of contestants including a one time area mp and now presidential aspirant, Dr Julia Ojiambo. Dr Ojimabo’s star is on the rise in Funyula and she currently looks unstoppable.
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He at the same time came out in support of his trade colleague, Mukhisa Kituyi who was recently unceremoniously dropped as party chairman and replaced by an unknown Baringo East MP Asman Kamama.
According to Kamanda, Kituyi was shown the door because of his stand of agitating for elections as soon as possible and before the general elections expected in December this year.
The caustic Starehe legislator also alleges that Narc Kenya is being controlled by five members of parliament and if the past events are anything to go by, its easy to guess who are among those five mps. Are ministers Njenga Karume and John Michuki listening to Kamanda?
It seems just like ODM-Kenya, Narc Kenya's woes are far from over. The main problem seems to be rotating on the issue of elections which has become so thorny that it has been postponed twice as the modalities of how to go about them is perhaps the party's biggest headache.
Narc Kenya could have an outright presidential candidate in Mwai Kibaki but the biggest contention will be the position of his deputy as many do not have confidence in his present assistant Moody Awori and there are those eyeing the slot like Kituyi and agriculture minister Kipruto arap Kirwa who are the strongest agitators for polls while a visibly shaken Awori is on the opposing side
There are those who are saying that the whole problem of elections in Narc-Kenya has been brought about by the vice president’s slot where all the over ambitious politicians in the party see the best way of becoming president in 2012 is by being vice president now and praying that Kibaki wins this years general elections.
That is why you have people like professor George Saitoti screaming from roof tops that he is going for the party's chairmanship post so as to position himself for the vice presidency position, a post he held for several years in president Moi's administration but was dropped at the crucial eleventh hour in the dramatic professor-kimya incidenty at Kasarani. Uhuru Kenyatta was then hurriedly anointed as Moi’s successor.
Awori is also responsible for the jostling among politicians for his seat as he had earlier indicated that he would retire from politics this year and initiate his son into the murky world by supporting him for the Funyula parliamentary seat which the VP holds. Awori later abruptly changed his mind.
My information on the ground is that Awori could easily lose his parliamentary seat which has attracted a strong field of contestants including a one time area mp and now presidential aspirant, Dr Julia Ojiambo. Dr Ojimabo’s star is on the rise in Funyula and she currently looks unstoppable.
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