Nairobi is considered to be the media center of East Africa. Here, people keep themselves updated by reading newspapers, watching television and listening to radio channels. Magazines and journals are also used as the means of acquiring authentic news.
The headquarter of the Nation Group of Companies is located in Nairobi. It not only runs television and radio stations but also publishes newspapers. This company publishes the daily newspaper (Daily Nation) as well as weekly newspaper of Kenya. Beside this, the Taifa Leo is also published by this Nation Group. This daily newspaper is written in Swahili language.
The oldest newspaper of Kenya is the Standard. This daily newspaper is mainly popular for its business news. As this newspaper is published in English, not only the local people, but foreign tourists can also get updated news by going through it. Television Network is the first privately owned television channel of Kenya. It runs its activities from Nairobi. Standard Group is the owner of this television channel.
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Kenya Times and the Swahili language Kenya Leo are other popular newspapers of Nairobi. Kenya Government also plays a great role in the Nairobi Media. In the year 1961, Kenya Broadcasting Company actively started to work.
Some of the magazines that offer important news to the residents of Nairobi are Drum, Viva, Weekly Review and Chemsha Bongo. Among them, Weekly Review offers local news. Viva is mainly read by the women.
Other than these, there are Coast Week, Market Intelligence (a business journal), The African Executive (a business news magazine), Business Mirror and People Daily that form part of the Nairobi media.
Some of the radio stations of Nairobi are Family FM 103.9, Metro FM, Capital 98.4 FM, Kameme Radio, Kameme 101.1 FM, CRI 91.9, Hope FM, Kass FM and MTAA FM. These stations broadcast live programs and the radio jockeys play hit songs. Often songs sung by local artists are also played by them.
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