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Kenya's TV industry headed for stormy days

Journalists at work. An estimated 600 journalists and 2,000 other staff working with KTN, NTV and Citizen Television now face the risk of losing their jobs. [PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Kenya's broadcast industry is headed for its toughest turn as Government pushes for a shift from analogue to digital platforms ahead of the global June 2015 deadline.

Local television business is at stake and the joint investment in excess of Sh40 billion in broadcasting infrastructure by KTN, NTV, QTV and Citizen TV may just go to waste unless the investments are protected from unfair competition from foreign pay TV channels.

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