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#Tv47PwaniStudio was launched this week in Mombasa. This is a thread about an impactful social entrepreneurship. @HManyora @ItsBorn
As you are all aware, @tv47ke is the brainchild of entrepreneur @SimonNGicharu, also the founder of @MountKenyaUni. Like Mount Kenya University, which today is the biggest private higher education institution by student numbers and programmes, #TV47Ke is rising.
Long before he launched this TV, Chairman Gicharu called me to Serena Hotel one afternoon and told me about it. He wanted to know what I thought of a TV station that tells the most local, untold stories in the 47 counties of Kenya, thus the name #TV47Ke. (Msiseme nabrag sasa
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Much earlier, Moi University (my alma) had a TV station called #KTS but despite the good efforts of Mr. Nguri, it couldnât break even, because it depended almost wholly on âstudent labourâ but also because Moi Uni was being run down by Kalenjins...yes, Iâve said it!
This is the more reason why #TV47Ke is a beautiful entrepreneurial story. Because of its success, #MKU media students have a place to start their careers. But more importantly, the thousands of media graduates across the country have one more newsroom to apply for work.
Media industry in Kenya is a small industry which has been dominated by less than three media firms. In terms of economic development, this arrangement only employs a paltry number of the thousands of trained media professions in Kenya. Even worse, it tells very limited stories.
Journalists will tell you once you dropped by NMG, RMS and, or, SG, thatâs just the end of you. Last option is RAG, picking a few print and radio journalists. Kenyan journalists have just started making it in the international press..
Thousands of talents await being discovered. This is the more reason Iâm impressed with the success - so far - of #TV47Ke. For this and many other reasons, I congratulate Chairman @SimonNGicharu, CEO @AmEugeneAnangwe and I wish the #Tv47PwaniStudio team great success!
