Before joining KBC as MD, Dr Naim Bilal served as the acting director of Information in the Republic under the Ministry of ICT, where he was honoured with a stint as acting PS for the State Department of Broadcasting and Telecommunications in December 2018.
In 2010, at a corner of a 5 square foot open office off Ngong road, 25-year-old Samantha Siyieyio Kipury sat alone, her courage spilling over, filling the empty space around her. Her life had just taken a trajectory that would propel her career in the media industry in Kenya
Wachira Warurujoined Royal Media Services (RMS) in 2007, after being head-hunted to replicate the success he had achieved in his previous role, as the MD and CEO at Kenya’s national broadcaster, KBC. He led RMS from fifth place in the broadcast media market to first place in less than a year leveraging on local content to engage the broadcast audiences.
Kenya has a vibrant radio sector made up of public, community, faith-based, international, pan-regional and private radio stations.
The African Drum was launched in 1951. After a lacklustre three months, the owner, Jim Bailey, brought a friend out from England, Anthony Sampson, to edit the magazine. They did some informal research and were told that black readers wanted sport, jazz, celebrities and “hot dames”.
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