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Post by kamalet on Feb 15, 2015 10:55:51 GMT 3
Many will have been surprised that they could not watch news or their favorite Mexican Soaps and Nollywood movies.
I have no such regrets as I stopped watching news as a necessity in my house quite sometime back. In any case I will have caught up with TV news during the day on twitter and online news. The problem I have with news on TV is that it is all very depressing news - politicians calling each other names, murders and rapes!
So it actually takes me a long time to switch on any local TV channels.
But I have been following up the saga on Digital Migration and I think the three media houses that make up ADN have been taking Kenyans for fools and have created this expectation that they rule the airwaves and hence can control what happens in the TV world. When they started the war on Startimes and GoTV, it dawned on me that in using their predorminant posisiotn they actually were able to lie to the public on a simple thing like copyright. The two carriers were obligated by a must carry rule and even in doing so, they were not interfering with the content as the carried it as transmitted by the three broadcasters. But let us look at some of the logic. There are areas of Kenya where the analogue signal is not available, and the digital carriers have opened these areas to TV. That the ADN trio are business people, surely such additional viewership is good for their advertisers!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 16, 2015 21:02:17 GMT 3
So far as I know, Uhuru Kenyatta has become a Kenyan Berlusconi. Only the state sender KBC and his own Kenyatta stations are on message (air)! ---Our monopolist!
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Post by b6k on Feb 17, 2015 6:38:39 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, being "on message" & being "on air" are two different things. To prove that Uhuru is a beneficiary of the ADN consortium being off air because his message is being propagated by KBC & K24 isn't as simple as it seems. The little I've watched of the two doesn't appear to indicate they put out a product that differs much from the other private stations. What does amuse me, however, is the choice of channel some of my watering holes elect to tune into when news hour happens to find me imbibing baada ya kazi bottled products. Many that once had Citizen as their choice for independent "news" now tune into K24. No doubt S.K. Macharia is paying a high price for backing the wrong horse in 2013...
Kamale, there are a couple of things I can't quite wrap my head around in this whole digital row. The ADN media houses ask for more time to go digital yet at the same time say they've already invested 40 billion shillings in equipment that they can't use because foreigners have been given the whole pie. Time to do what if they can't sell the equipment? They have their analogue signal cutoff then they decide that digital harakiri is the way to go rather than to at least keep fighting the battle even in that limited digital spectrum since having your message out there is at least half the battle, IMHO.
Then there is the copyright angle that makes little sense to me. The local channels own material that does deserve copyright is limited to news, lousy talk shows, a couple of children's programs, on Saturday & a torrent of Christian programming on Sunday. Yet for most hours of the day there are hours upon hours of Mexican soaps, Brazilian series & an ever growing number of Philipino, Indian, & Chinese programs. Can they actually lay claim to copyright just because THEY rebroadcast foreigners tripe on our airwaves?
To me it seems ADN is a bit like the monkey with its fist caught in a monkey trap. It's so focused on the piece of fruit (40 billion?) in its grasp that it doesn't seem to realize all it needs to do is to let go of the fruit and it will then effortlessly pull its hand out of the hole. The CA, on its part needs to rethink the "wisdom" of putting all its (our) eggs in one basket. Allowing for redundancies in the digital set up isn't a bad thing especially considering how ownership of broadcast companies changes at the global level. A foreign company interested in this market today may drop it like a hot potato tomorrow. Who then will be left to pick up the pieces other than our local media moguls such as S.K. Macharia & Wilfred Kiboro? Both the ADN consortium & the CA need to step back & rethink their rigid positions before the populace realizes there really are a lot of other things one can do than watch "idiot box" for hours on end. With the recent rains & the dearth of Tv channels, expect a baby boom in KE...
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Post by kamalet on Feb 17, 2015 9:50:58 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, being "on message" & being "on air" are two different things. To prove that Uhuru is a beneficiary of the ADN consortium being off air because his message is being propagated by KBC & K24 isn't as simple as it seems. The little I've watched of the two doesn't appear to indicate they put out a product that differs much from the other private stations. What does amuse me, however, is the choice of channel some of my watering holes elect to tune into when news hour happens to find me imbibing baada ya kazi bottled products. Many that once had Citizen as their choice for independent "news" now tune into K24. No doubt S.K. Macharia is paying a high price for backing the wrong horse in 2013... Both KBC and K24 (include Kiss FM and Family TV) had been broadcasting on both the Analogue and Digital channels. When they were switched off they continued to broadcast on the digital channel. Two weeks ago they threatened to revert to analogue due to the delay caused by the ADN group and only went back after threats by CAK. Kamale, there are a couple of things I can't quite wrap my head around in this whole digital row. The ADN media houses ask for more time to go digital yet at the same time say they've already invested 40 billion shillings in equipment that they can't use because foreigners have been given the whole pie. Time to do what if they can't sell the equipment? They have their analogue signal cutoff then they decide that digital harakiri is the way to go rather than to at least keep fighting the battle even in that limited digital spectrum since having your message out there is at least half the battle, IMHO. It is difficult to understand the thinking of these media houses. Apart from very irresponsible misleading information about 90% of Kenyans not accessing TV or people losing jobs, they have done little to convince me. They knew that migration was due in June 2014 and did nothing leaving it to COFEK to plead for consumers who had no set top boxes and which led to the High Court extending the deadline to October. When that came, the media houses went to court leading to the extension being pushed to December 2014 for the migration. They introduced the issue of their demand for a licence. They won that round and the government appealed and the Court of Appeal ruled in CAK's favour leading to the case going to the Supreme Court. They were allowed Self-Provisioning licences as a consortium by the CAK as part of the ruling of the Supreme Court. Coming towards the end of the year, they went to the Supreme Court again asking for the delay of the Analogue switch off which was allowed by way of injunction from December. Then come January they three musketeers decided that things are not as fast as they thought it would be and proceeded to run the adverts about illegal transmission by Startimes and GOTV(no mention of Zuku or Multichoice!) asking viewers to wait for the ADN decoders. That is where the fight started leading to the ruling last week that the migration dates be enforced. On Friday, the media house said they would ignore the order to switch off their analogue transmission but were beaten to it by CAK who obtained court orders to enforce the switch off. Then there is the copyright angle that makes little sense to me. The local channels own material that does deserve copyright is limited to news, lousy talk shows, a couple of children's programs, on Saturday & a torrent of Christian programming on Sunday. Yet for most hours of the day there are hours upon hours of Mexican soaps, Brazilian series & an ever growing number of Philipino, Indian, & Chinese programs. Can they actually lay claim to copyright just because THEY rebroadcast foreigners tripe on our airwaves? The copyright argument does not hold water. What Startimes, Zuku and Multichoice do is simply carry a brodcaster signal without any interruption or advertising. It is also important to note that the ADN trio are Free to Air broadcasters which means their transmission is intended to be free and does not attract a fee to carry their signal. Nothing stops them from becoming a Pay TV service once they go digital. To me it seems ADN is a bit like the monkey with its fist caught in a monkey trap. It's so focused on the piece of fruit (40 billion?) in its grasp that it doesn't seem to realize all it needs to do is to let go of the fruit and it will then effortlessly pull its hand out of the hole. The CA, on its part needs to rethink the "wisdom" of putting all its (our) eggs in one basket. Allowing for redundancies in the digital set up isn't a bad thing especially considering how ownership of broadcast companies changes at the global level. A foreign company interested in this market today may drop it like a hot potato tomorrow. Who then will be left to pick up the pieces other than our local media moguls such as S.K. Macharia & Wilfred Kiboro? Both the ADN consortium & the CA need to step back & rethink their rigid positions before the populace realizes there really are a lot of other things one can do than watch "idiot box" for hours on end. With the recent rains & the dearth of Tv channels, expect a baby boom in KE... Perhaps to quote Mrs Kimotho she of Kameme FM, she says there are over 40 TV channels available and who are using the digital platform. These have created employment to a lot more people that ADN, but most importantly they are becoming a competitor for advertising revenue which previously was the preserve of the ADN trio. As regards your concern for the licence being held by a foreign company, the truth of the matter is that PANG are obligated to sell of at least 30% of their shareholding to a local company within two years. It is clear that none of the trio has sought to take this investment route! You will recall that to forestall foreign dominance the government has a stake in the digital platform through Signet owned through KBC (and this was with the agreement of the ADN trio). There is still one more BSD licence to be auctioned off....
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 17, 2015 16:42:34 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 17, 2015 20:09:35 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/Fury-threats-as-Kenya--is-hit-by-TV-blackout/-/1056/2624948/-/jm5umdz/-/index.html And then So who switched the analogue transmitters off? If such a straightforward fact is impossible to verify in public, mefeels this whole forced migration episode is a corrupted business. When it comes to media, my instincts are to side with a homegrown alternative -but I am afraid, that, just like in the SGR tendering and the repatriation of locally arrested Chinese criminals, the Jubilee government has her orders, and has taken them. We are paying for your show-case infrastructural projects, white elephants or not. We choose which monopolies we want. And Dr. Maatiang'i, like Aden Duale with the other bill yesterday, jumps up and down like that dog in the famous cartoon! very fishy business!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 17, 2015 20:15:22 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, being "on message" & being "on air" are two different things. To prove that Uhuru is a beneficiary of the ADN consortium being off air because his message is being propagated by KBC & K24 isn't as simple as it seems. The little I've watched of the two doesn't appear to indicate they put out a product that differs much from the other private stations. What does amuse me, however, is the choice of channel some of my watering holes elect to tune into when news hour happens to find me imbibing baada ya kazi bottled products. Many that once had Citizen as their choice for independent "news" now tune into K24. No doubt S.K. Macharia is paying a high price for backing the wrong horse in 2013... Kamale, there are a couple of things I can't quite wrap my head around in this whole digital row. The ADN media houses ask for more time to go digital yet at the same time say they've already invested 40 billion shillings in equipment that they can't use because foreigners have been given the whole pie. Time to do what if they can't sell the equipment? They have their analogue signal cutoff then they decide that digital harakiri is the way to go rather than to at least keep fighting the battle even in that limited digital spectrum since having your message out there is at least half the battle, IMHO. Then there is the copyright angle that makes little sense to me. The local channels own material that does deserve copyright is limited to news, lousy talk shows, a couple of children's programs, on Saturday & a torrent of Christian programming on Sunday. Yet for most hours of the day there are hours upon hours of Mexican soaps, Brazilian series & an ever growing number of Philipino, Indian, & Chinese programs. Can they actually lay claim to copyright just because THEY rebroadcast foreigners tripe on our airwaves? To me it seems ADN is a bit like the monkey with its fist caught in a monkey trap. It's so focused on the piece of fruit (40 billion?) in its grasp that it doesn't seem to realize all it needs to do is to let go of the fruit and it will then effortlessly pull its hand out of the hole. The CA, on its part needs to rethink the "wisdom" of putting all its (our) eggs in one basket. Allowing for redundancies in the digital set up isn't a bad thing especially considering how ownership of broadcast companies changes at the global level. A foreign company interested in this market today may drop it like a hot potato tomorrow. Who then will be left to pick up the pieces other than our local media moguls such as S.K. Macharia & Wilfred Kiboro? Both the ADN consortium & the CA need to step back & rethink their rigid positions before the populace realizes there really are a lot of other things one can do than watch "idiot box" for hours on end. With the recent rains & the dearth of Tv channels, expect a baby boom in KE... b6k. correction noted: but commercial tv being on message also means 'airing programs which sustain advertisments' earning money which is what it is suppose to do as a busineness. By switching off the competition, Kenyatta media has a field day. But it is the tactic of a mafioso, an IBM trying to kill off Microsoft! (if you remember the beginings of Bill Gates!) How much do you gather the ADN group have lost in advertisment revenue in the past 3 days?
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 17, 2015 20:24:03 GMT 3
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 17, 2015 21:05:28 GMT 3
The ADN media houses ask for more time to go digital yet at the same time say they've already invested 40 billion shillings in equipment that they can't use because foreigners have been given the whole pie... Er, em ... actually they now claim that they do not have the equipment for digital broadcasting! Anyways I can see why they would rather wait. Having waded through some of the material, here's how I am inclined to read it: (a) The stuff about third parties broadcasting copyright material is a red herring. What they really want to do is to lock in their customers and charge them as they please; having the government put restrictions on who can broadcast what will help them with that. (b) The argument that not enough Kenyans have the set-top boxes is similarly misleading. In their view, again with an eye to locking in their customers and cleaning up, what Kenyans don't have are the "right" set-top boxes, i.e. ones that are "appropriately" restricted. Another, different, kind of " serikali saidia". So the plan is simple: squeeze somebody until satisfaction is obtained on (a) and (b). The average Kenyan couch-potato, addicted to his or her box, is the easiest person to squeeze, so therefore! For its part, the government doesn't seem to have much of a planned response: tcancelling licences, which they briefly did, was bone-headed and would not have worked, even without the courts being involved. One simply doesn't take such a bone-headed approach when the people on the other side wield huge clubs! And then there's the vigour with which some people in (or connected) to the government are fighting hard to ensure that, no matter what, the Chinese have a sizable slice of the pie. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. This is a favourite in many Chinese restaurants: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Pao_chicken
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Post by b6k on Feb 17, 2015 23:03:54 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, whatever the triumvirate have lost in advertising revenue they have lost purely on their own volition. The link shared by Otishotish shows how back in December 2013 they willfully (& unlawfully) disrupted their analogue transmission before the cutoff date. Fast-forward to the current "crisis", they have been granted a reprieve to keep airing their analogue signal well beyond the December 31st 2014 deadline yet once the CA took action against it they willfully scuttled their digital broadcast Mirroring their unilateral action in 2013 that was done to prove a point. These bozos are trying to hold Kenyans at ransom & believe they have us by the short & curlies. Shock on them this self imposed blackout will be used to bust the monopoly that has them bragging about owning 90% of the marketshare. Have a look at what Kiboro had to say in early December when the ADN briefly had their way & all seemed to be singing from the same hymnal... conferencenews.online.co.ke/digital-migration-on-course-as-kenya-media-get-licence/ADN needs to face the kind of anti-trust laws that saw the breaking up of "Ma Bell" in the US back in the day. Only this time it should be against 3 companies seemingly united in greed...
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 17, 2015 23:26:12 GMT 3
b6k, one thing is not clear to me. Why is it compulsory to move over to Signet and Pang only? Why no room for a third carrier or conduit of digital signal? 2. Why not maintain the dual service of relay, ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL, and let dinosaurus who do not evolve to digital, go extinct on own volition as it were. Let me give this example. In a country like Zud Korea where everybody is wired -(smart-handheld-gadgeted) all radio stations are in cyberspace, ie Internet transmission. In Malawi where smart-device mobile accessory is science fiction for over 60%, analogue old fashion radio is King. (know you market, know your audience and how the listen/watch) But the majority [third world radios] offer both normal old box reception and modern Internet outlet. Their choice, their business smartness of foolishness. Depending on internet saturation/density, they move. Why is it compulsory in Kenya for TV houses to wholly be digital? Why do they not leave them to choice both, given to receiv digital signal, a Kenyan must part with ksh. 6K for the top-box?Why do we not let the topbox to choice, that is, when ones pocket allows!? so that the only driving force for a consumer to spend the 6k is because she/he wants BETTER, INTERACTIVE IMAGES! so that that you, b6k, in the absence of mrs b6k, can go gaga at a close up of lady J, here below. analogue just does not do her justice!
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Post by Horth on Feb 17, 2015 23:43:55 GMT 3
Some interesting reading including the whole history here: Source
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 17, 2015 23:45:26 GMT 3
b6k, one thing is not clear to me. Why is it compulsory to move over to Signet and Pang only? Why no room for a third carrier or conduit of digital signal? That was initially the plan but, as far as I can tell, is no longer the case; they have this "self-provisioning license" to distribute their own stuff. So, having won that one the Gang of Three is no longer arguing that they must not be forced to use the two other distributors; what they want is restrictions on those two. See my point (a) above. See also my response below to b6k. This is what the Gang of Three apparently would like. But for what reasons? Remember that back in 2013 when they switched off the analogue transmissions, they claimed that they had to respect the law and stop the analogue so that they could go digital. The reasons they now want a delay is that so that they get a good arrangement to fwack the couch-potato. And for that it no longer suits them to "respect" the court's decision. An international agreement (TV as opposed to radio). All must comply.
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 18, 2015 0:14:25 GMT 3
ADN needs to face the kind of anti-trust laws that saw the breaking up of "Ma Bell" in the US back in the day. Only this time it should be against 3 companies seemingly united in greed... The group is simply playing hardball against a bone-headed government. What really ought to have happened from the start is that the government---if it really cared for the interests of Mr.& Mrs. Couch Potato---should have been working to encourage more players. So what happened? Remember that the initial tender to broadcast the signals. It "conveniently" worked out that only the Chinese-led group had "satisfied the requirements". (What jakaswanga alluded to: how does one pronounce kung-pao chicken?) The government then went as far as considering a "cancellation" for a second broadcaster before deciding that some government-group would get it. At that point, the Gang Of Three was quite right to go to court. They got something out of that. The problem---and it's a problem only for Mr. & Mrs. Couch Potato---is that the Gang Of Three having got an inch now wants a mile. Well, it does appear that they have Kenyans and their government by the small ones. Who will bust the monopoly? The government? So far, its strategies and tactics---empty threats and unsustainable actions---do not inspire confidence. The People? Can they hold out? Reminds of the "sex strikes" that one sometimes hears about: many seem to last only until the strikers also start to "itch". So, let the games continue! Oh, here's bright spot: The Daily Nonsense has not pressed its claim that the Chinese are wild-eyed censors ... It has now taken a new-and-improved line that is more likely to appeal to "independent and sovereign types": the Chinese, normally Kenya's best friends (even when they are finishing the wildlife) pose a grave danger to the media in Africa! Too much control! (Apparently, they only now realized that Kung Fu has been busy in the media too.) www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/2627116/-/3rcbqgz/-/index.html How much do you gather the ADN group have lost in advertisment revenue in the past 3 days? I don't see that as a problem. Whatever they lose---and I doubt that it will be a very long fight---they will regain by adding a few shillings here and there in future advertisements (and other areas). So I will bet that they can hold much longer than Mwananchi and his/her GoK.
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Post by kamalet on Feb 18, 2015 8:29:17 GMT 3
The media houses pursued their rights through the judiciary. The supreme court granted them their request for their self-provisioning licence to be reinstated but also ordered that the CAK timetable of switching from analogue to digital be enforced. The media houses have participated in the simulcast testing of the digital platform for 6 years and even got their transmissions carried by GOTV and DSTV all who broadcast on the digital channel. Their claim that they have NEVER broadcast anything on Digital is hence untrue.
It is unfair to create the impression that the three were switched off by the government and that narrative is being carried as the truth whilst the reality is that they switched off the their digital signatures after the government enforced the court order on the analogue signal.
There is nothing political about all this...its purely legal!
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Post by b6k on Feb 18, 2015 9:44:58 GMT 3
Unfortunately for the ADN triumvirate their claims to 90% marketshare also ring hollow. According to Geopoll stats they'd be lucky to have 65% of eyeballs on their programming at any given time. Of the 3, Citizen is king with KTN & NTV sharing a similar slice of the pie. In fact KBC which usually ranks 4th can on occasion leapfrog KTN & NTV to second place as happened last year during the World Cup. Geopoll Statistics on Kenyan TV viewers Besides, even when the media houses claim to have the lion's share of the market, one has to wonder just how large that market really is. Well, according to data collated from the 2009 census it's a very small market indeed: "A look at the recently launched Social –Economic Atlas of Kenya, Depicting the National Population Census by County and Sub- Location and based on the 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census, shows the number of Kenyan households who own a television set was 28 per cent or 2.5 million households. The number is larger in urban areas, with Nairobi leading with 62 per cent followed by Kiambu with 55 per cent and Mombasa 49 per cent. Mandera has the lowest, 1.6 per cent, Wajir at 2.5 and Turkana three per cent. According to the survey released by the Ministry of Devolution and Planning, television ownership, apart from economic factors is also determined by the access to electricity. In 2009, almost two million households or 22.7 per cent or one in four households used electricity for lighting. For now, according to CAK, only 1.2 million set top boxes have been sold since digital migration started in Kenya. The Director General Francis Wangusi, adds that there are additional 1.5 million set boxes in stock. If sold, this will translate to 3.7 million Kenyans able to access digital television." www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000149014&story_title=turning-kenya-to-a-pay-tv-nation-unfair-to-consumers&pageNo=2Allowing for some "growth" over the last 6 years we'd be lucky if this number even tops 4 million. So on a good day, these media houses would be very fortunate indeed if they had 10 million viewers eyeballing their hallowed content. That includes people without tellies who watch at a neighbors or hang in or around bars watching on "borrowed" TV sets. Jakaswanga I hope this puts your advertising concerns in perspective. Personally I think that's money companies could better spend on R&D, those pesky billboards, or radio which is really King of the media. Now this makes the latest decision by CORD to postpone their Okoa Kenya initiative because "there are no people without media" even more curious indeed. www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000152036&story_title=CORD%20postpones%20launch%20of%20Okoa%20Kenya%20bill%20over%20TV%20blackoutThis smacks more of a "the dog ate my homework" excuse than anything based on reality. Except of course the realization that Okoa Kenya was really going nowhere, much like the resistance of the ADN triumvirate to begin with...
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Post by b6k on Feb 21, 2015 6:33:52 GMT 3
Why do we not let the topbox to choice, that is, when ones pocket allows!? so that the only driving force for a consumer to spend the 6k is because she/he wants BETTER, INTERACTIVE IMAGES! so that that you, b6k, in the absence of mrs b6k, can go gaga at a close up of lady J, here below. analogue just does not do her justice! Jakaswanga,you & MSM got carried away with providing eye candy when what most of us want is simply accurate information. Gado captured your obsession with news anchors' curves when he came up with this one:
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 21, 2015 12:36:32 GMT 3
b6k, in the visual business, eye candy as you derogatively put it, is the catcher in the box, otherwise attention wanders easily to pop-corn, or ones own darling sitting next may be. There are not many options of rivetting attention, male or female. you and your ilks thirst for accurate information, yet tune the telly? are you kidding me!? tights worn by news anchors give very accurate information if you ask me! And the majority women? they watch soap, to comment on attires and steal style! So: what does Mr. b6k watch the news for? he is afer all internet savvy, and that is a better source than ... um .. who is your favourite anchor -ess again!?
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Post by Daktari wa makazi on Feb 22, 2015 22:19:34 GMT 3
The point to be made here is that a free press is essential to a healthy democracy. There is a purpose of journalism, and it is not just to entertain. It is not to pander to political power and rich men. Television has what amounts in the end to a constitutional duty to tell their viewers what they perceive to be the truth.
We have seen the rise of shadowy government quangos who determine what truths can and what truths can’t be conveyed across the mainstream media. The govt at whim closing a television station is a front to media independence. It is well known that an editorial operation that is clearly influenced by government is classic appeasement. That loses the objectivity demanded from the media. Once very powerful bodies know they can exert influence over the media they know they can come back and threaten it.
It totally changes the relationship between the media and the government. The simple truth is, even if the media are robust, such action of government won’t support but undermined them.
In the UK for example, the media are kept at arm's length from the functions of the government for fear of unnecessary pressure. Media is even left alone to regulate itself. But, in Kenya, where the President owns a chunk of the media, it seems what is reported is what the government wants people to hear, fearing closure otherwise.
What was so demanding of the government to speed up the digital migration when the media houses were not ready to implement those changes? Would it have made any difference to give the television station extra time to finalise their business deals in preparation for the digital migration?
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Post by b6k on Feb 22, 2015 23:34:35 GMT 3
b6k, in the visual business, eye candy as you derogatively put it, is the catcher in the box, otherwise attention wanders easily to pop-corn, or ones own darling sitting next may be. There are not many options of rivetting attention, male or female. you and your ilks thirst for accurate information, yet tune the telly? are you kidding me!? tights worn by news anchors give very accurate information if you ask me! And the majority women? they watch soap, to comment on attires and steal style! So: what does Mr. b6k watch the news for? he is afer all internet savvy, and that is a better source than ... um .. who is your favourite anchor -ess again!? Hahaha. So TV & accuracy don't mix, eh? The Internet does not lie? As you saw from the directive sent by admin on February 111 (sic) 2015, yours truly fell victim to (mis)information confirmed on an Internet site. No type of media is immune to erroneous information. The reason I like TV is it shows the quoted source in a soundbyte that can be used as a valid reference. That's not to say soundbytes cannot be taken out of context, as Alfred Keter claimed his now long forgotten weighbridge tirade wa. They often are. But it is a heck of a lot cheaper to watch news on FTA TV than to have to watch it livestreamed on the 'net... Who is my favorite anchor-ess? Right now I naturally only have eyes for K24's Karen Karimi. But that's because the other media houses left the digital airwaves voluntaril.
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Post by b6k on Feb 23, 2015 0:50:55 GMT 3
What was so demanding of the government to speed up the digital migration when the media houses were not ready to implement those changes? Would it have made any difference to give the television station extra time to finalise their business deals in preparation for the digital migration? Sadik nothing has happened "suddenly" as far as digital migration is concerned. The 2015 deadline was agreed to globally almost a decade ago. Here are some of the milestones over the years: "Milestones Kenya is way ahead of many African countries in the digital migration marathon and has achieved the following milestones: 1) In March 2007 the Government established a taskforce to advice on a roadmap for Digital Migration. 2) In March 2008 the taskforce recommendations were adopted by the Government and the setting up of the Digital Television Committee to oversee the implementation of Digital Migration 3) 2009 KBC receives Government Authorization as the first Broadcast Signal Distributor. 4) th December 2009 H.E. President Mwai Kibaki launches the pilot phase on DVB-T signal. 5) In December 2010 the government adopted the Digital transmission technology DVB-T2 for further infrastructure rollout. 6) In August 2011 forums with Broadcasters, vendors and other partners were held. 7) In October 2011 a second signal distributor, Pan Africa Network Group (Kenya) Co. Ltd, is licensed. 8) February 2012 the DVB-T2 signal went on air in Nairobi and its environs. 9) In June 2012 Treasury approves the waiver of import duty on set top boxes by for the Financial Year 2012/2013. 10) Also in June 2012 the second digital platform went on air in Nairobi in. 11) On 8th June 2012 a large scale Consumer Awareness Campaign is launched. 31st August 2012 the DVB-T signal transmission Ceased." digitalkenya.go.ke/welcome-to-digital-kenyaAll those are milestones that are now three years old. Where's the "suddenly" in the equation there? The fact is the 3 musketeers have seen this freight train coming but assumed they could ignore it. Readiness has little to do with it.
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Feb 25, 2015 14:09:43 GMT 3
For the last few weeks, I have been listening to people on blogs like this one, sites like Facebook and Twitter, reading newspapers and conversing with people offline.
I think I have now made up my mind.
In my opinion, on this matter of digital migration, Onyango Oloo's considered opinion is....
Stay tuned while I download my thoughts from my brain to a laptop/desktop smartphone/tablet screen near you.
Onyango Oloo, Nairobi,
Kenya Tuesday, February 25, 2015
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 25, 2015 20:20:43 GMT 3
For the last few weeks, I have been listening to people on blogs like this one, sites like Facebook and Twitter, reading newspapers and conversing with people offline. I think I have now made up my mind. In my opinion, on this matter of digital migration, Onyango Oloo's considered opinion is.... Stay tuned while I download my thoughts from my brain to a laptop/desktop smartphone/tablet screen near you. Onyango Oloo, Nairobi,
Kenya Tuesday, February 25, 2015 Oloo, b6k Have you fellos caught on the story which claims the chinese digital relayer --babi pangang or Pang, is not that Chinese after all? what on earth? The Safaricom template: --a secret holding company called Mobitela was formed to secretively be awarded shares as the old Kenya Telecom was sold to the British parent company of Safaricom (should be Vodafone or something like that). When the Brits had turned kenya telecom around and safaricom was running a riot profit, and shares were floated, the owners of Mobitela soared until they nearly grazed the Nigerian Dangote. 8-4-4 = zero journalists (quoting Kamalet) claim nobody knows who Mobitela profiteurs are! That is funny! Mobitela is actually formed from their african names! --Njakip style! And so it is with Pang. It may not even be 60% Chinese!
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Post by kamalet on Feb 26, 2015 11:57:28 GMT 3
Why is the nationality of PANG an issue today whilst it was not when the tenders were being issued? Did PANG get the licences legally or not? I believe this was ruled in favour of the then CCK that the tender process was legal. But even when the story is being made an issue by the Senate it would appear that the trio are no the real owners of ADN!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 26, 2015 14:50:00 GMT 3
Why is the nationality of PANG an issue today whilst it was not when the tenders were being issued? Did PANG get the licences legally or not? I believe this was ruled in favour of the then CCK that the tender process was legal. But even when the story is being made an issue by the Senate it would appear that the trio are no the real owners of ADN! Kamalet, these things are not a problem when all cards are on the table, the processes transparent and all is in the best of faiths. However, when disputes emerge, and on closer readings shady dealings are suspected, and, given the reputation of Kenyan bureaucrats, one would be a fool to trust his all to them, then every detail matters There are mirrors and smokesckreens galore --see Terminal one KAA for instance, secret clauses and all, and the Chinese having become experts in bribing their way around Africa ... One can never be too careful! NB: if that star story is true! Wolololo!
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