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Launch date. 1928 (radio) 1962 (television) Official website. www.kbc.co.ke. Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is the state-run media organisation of Kenya. [2] It broadcasts in English and Swahili, as well as in most local languages of Kenya. The corporation was launched as a radio service in 1928 when Kenya was a British colony, making it ...
Mass media in Kenya includes more than 91 FM stations, more than 64 free to view TV stations, and an unconfirmed number of print newspapers and magazines. Publications mainly use English as their primary language of communication, with some media houses employing Swahili. Vernacular or community-based languages are commonly used in broadcast ...
Kenya News Agency. The Kenya News Agency (KNA) is a government-run national news agency created in 1963. [1] Its headquarter is in Nairobi and it is run by the Department of Information, Ministry of Information Communication and Technology. News reports are created by KNA reporters in 72 county and sub-county offices and disseminated from the ...
Catherine Kasavuli in 2021. Catherine Kiza Kasavuli (22 February 1962 – 29 December 2022) [1] was a Kenyan journalist and news presenter. Kasavuli was the first female news anchor in Kenya and had previously worked in other television stations including the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), Citizen Television, and Kenya Television Network (KTN).
Kenya Television Network (KTN) is a Kenyan free-to-air television network that was launched in March 1990 by Jared Kangwana. [1] It is headquartered at Standard Group Centre, Nairobi . [ 2 ] It was the first free-to-air privately owned television network in Africa , and the first to break KBC's monopoly in Kenya.
Signet, Kenya. Signet is a Kenyan subsidiary of the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) that broadcast and distribute the DTT signals on DVB-T2. It was first launched on 9 December 2009 by H.E. President Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi and its environs. [1]
Entertainment, music and phone-ins dominate the radio scene, which includes Islamic stations and stations broadcasting in local languages. The BBC World Service is available in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu. The state-run Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is funded from advertising revenue and from the government.
Ikenye studied mass communication in Kenya and got an internship at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). She worked at KBC, Citizen TV, NTV Kenya [3]. She applied for a position at the BBC World Service in London which was looking for three presenters from East, West and South Africa, and got the job.