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The Communication Authority of Kenya has ordered the closure of a local television channel for a period of four weeks after the station aired explicit content on childrens programmes. The authority alleges that the Mount Kenya TV channel aired inappropriate content during the watershed period during which it aired sexually explicit content and scenes containing drug abuse as well as robbery and violence. “The Licensee acknowledged that the content aired was indeed inappropriate for the waters...

Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) center in Nairobi. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU The Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) Wednesday suspended Mt Kenya TV’s operations for a month for violating programming standards. The Authority took this decision after it received complaints against the vernacular channel over the airing of inappropriate content last week. Authority acting director-general Mercy Wanjau said the TV channel which is owned by Slopes Media House Ltd, had aired inappropriate co...

MultiChoice has echoed calls from the country’s public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), for South Africa’s current TV licence model to be eliminated — favouring the implementation of a public broadcasting tax on households. However, the service operator has said it is opposed to the SABC’s proposal that subscription broadcasters be required to collect this levy from subscribers, arguing that the funds be collected by the SA Revenue Service (SARS).  “We ...

The Bombay High Court on Monday in its 251-page judgement on a clutch of PILs regarding media trials in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, observed that the media ought to avoid reports touching upon an ongoing investigation and present facts which are in public interest rather than "what, according to the media, the public is interested in." The division bench of Chief Justice Dipankat Dutta and Justice GS Kulkarni directed the print and electronic media to exercise restraint and refrai...