Media Wars: NTV Loses Out On Top Executive Ian Fernandes And He Is Taking The Production Team With Him

Ian Fernandes is one of the biggest personalities within Kenya’s media fraternity. For those not in the know, he would be the man behind the curtains to Nation’s Wizard of Oz. It is reported -and with rather dramatic effect- that he turned the fortunes of NTV as an entity around after joining the team from KTN.

The lad who is an engineer by training, joined NTV at a point when it was struggling against KTN and turned it’s fortunes around but was headhunted by Mediamax after the current CEO’s tenure was deemed a failure as his policies fell short of driving up the viewership.

The man, Paul Wanyangah is responsible for a move that saw Mediamax poaching 30+ Royal Media staff members back in 2012 as the move did not bring viewers to the stable. It is also reported that the only spike they witnessed was during the campaigns when Citizen TV made a play for the Nyanza audience which alienated the Central Kenyan audience but the spike in ratings was shortlived.

The misinformed move saw news anchors get paiud upto a reported paid up to Ksh 1.2 million per month in some instances with Belinda Obura and Tom Mboya said to be leading the pack of the millionaire anchors at K24.
When I was informed of the goings on, I took too long attempting to get someone to go on record as my source to no avail and as i craft thius article, I realize Kahawa Tungu beat me to the punch -and has additional information. That will not happen again.

Keep it Ghafla for more information as the situation unfolds.

Source: Kahawa Tungu