KTN News Has Officially Closed Days After Standard Fired over 300 Employees

KTN News Has Officially Closed Days After Standard Fired over 300 Employees

KTN News Has Officially Closed Days After Standard Fired over 300 Employees: The Standard Group, has shut down one of its TV stations.

KTN News programming, which was mainly news and news features, has switched into KTN Home, the company’s flagship TV station.

KTN news was launched in July 2015, and has been closed down exactly nine years later. It was unveiled as a 24-hour station focusing on delivering comprehensive, incisive news, current affairs programming, documentaries and features.

It also offered Standard Group an alternative chancel for live broadcasts as KTN Home maintained normal programming. KTN News has been broadcasting in both English and Kiswahili.

Standard Group board issued a redundancy notice late July in what is understood to be a massive layoff of journalists and other operational staff.

The statement read,”This situation has been witnessed on the back of shifting trends in media consumption, occasioned by technological changes in the digital media landscape and emerging consumer preferences which have necessitated a rethink of our business model.”

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