The government is to attribute Radio Salam a licence to launch the country's first Islamic TV channel.
The Nairobi government would seem to be prepared to attribute Radio Salam a licence to create the country's first Islamic TV channel. Radio Salam has been broadcasting in Mombasa for three years, its coverage extending over the Muslim regions in coast and the North Eastern Province. This radio station and future TV channel are owned by the family of the Minister for Defence, Yusuf Haji, with his sons Abdul Haji and Noordin Haji being the broadcaster's directors. The minister, an important ally of President Mwai Kibaki, had to use all his powers of persuasion to get the green light from the government for this television channel. Its promoters have already begun to purchase the equipment needed, a good sign that the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) has promised to licence the broadcaster.
This TV channel will, to begin with, broadcast in the same two regions as the radio station, but its owners hope to subsequently be authorised to cover Nairobi. It intends to take advantage of the disillusionment of Muslims with the local media, whose programmes they frequently consider immoral or biased. However, Abdul Haji has given President Kibaki an undertaking that the broadcaster will keep well away from the influence of radical Islamists.
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written by Fatma, October 06, 2010
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