Kenya Television Network (KTN) is one of the leading
television stations in
Kenya with its headquarters located along Mombasa Road Nairobi, at the Standard Group Centre
Nairobi.
[1] It was founded in March 1990 by
Jared Kangwana[2] and was the first non-pay privately owned TV-station in
Africa, and the first to break
KBC's monopoly in Kenya. KTN became famous for Activism Journalism in the 1990s, developing a sophisticated, aggressive and unique style news coverage, and has continued with the same hard line stance, issues-based reporting to date, branding itself as the 'authoritative and independent' news channel. KTN became the model for some governments in Africa when they allowed media liberalisation to take place in the late 1990s. Many of the new radio and TV stations across East and Central Africa not only relied on KTN as a model, but benefited directly in terms of recruiting former KTN staff to run their operations.
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