Hundreds of people including members from the media fraternity on Wednesday gathered in Chitawira residential area to pay their last respect to Lloyd Zawanda, a veteran journalist who until his death was a group station manager for Joy Media Group. Zawanda collapsed at his house in Chitawira Tuesday morning and he was rushed to Gombwa […]
Private owned Joy radio station manager Lloyd Zawanda has died suddenly after he was found uncoincious at his home in Blantyre on a day he was expected to fly to South Africa for a media conference. Zawanda a well-known veteran journalists joined Joy Radio as an editor after years of journalism in official Malawi News Agency. The […]
Communication Workers Union of Malawi (COWUMA) has ordered Joy radio and television station to pay 16 employees who were retrenched their terminal benefits apart from faulting the institution for the decision. Joy Media Group last month retrenched some of its employees due to financial constraints which have left the institution on the brink of being declared bankrupt. […]
Private owend Joy radio and television stations is facing financial crisis with accumulated K30-million debt in wage bill, Nyasa Times can reveal. Employees at the two institutions operating under Joy Media Group have gone five months without being paid their salaries due to financial constraints with debtors haunting the institution for unsettled debts. The institution […]
Taxpayer-funded Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) through the High Court Sheriffs pounced on privately owned media institution, Joy Media Group and seized a vehicle over unpaid debt of K4.5 million. The Sheriffs seized the vehicle Toyota Rav4; paralyzing operations of both Joy Radio and Television, as the media grouping owned by former President Bakili Muluzi has been […]
High Court Sheriffs on Wednesday afternoon seized a vehicle for Joy Radio Station after its manager, Lloyd Zawanda failed to pay libel damages amounting to K5 million. Zawanda was last year dragged to court by former Peoples Party (PP) Secretary General, Henry Chibwana over defamatory remarks he made in one of Joy Radio’s ‘press review’ […]
The privately owned Joy Radio and TV stations have been ranked as the country’s station with most listeners as far as sports and entertainment coverage is concerned. According to Second Quarter Quality of Service Report (April-June 15) release this week by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) Joy is topping the list with 53 % […]
Soche Police in Blantyre have arrested head technician for Joy Radio Station Adbul Razak Telera for beating up a driver after he refused to surrender a company car to run personal errands. Nyasa Times understands that this is the second time Telera has assaulted a fellow employee as he also roughed up the station’s messenger […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi’s aspirations to run Joy-TV alongside Joy FM radio, which were thwarted when Malawi government switched off the television broadcasting, has been given a lifeline as the country’s first private television station will re-start its transmission. Muluzi said on Monday that Joy Media Group which also owns Joy Radio want the […]
President Joyce Banda’s adviser on communication and political affairs Elias Wakuda Kamanga has dismissed critics who have labelled the Head of State’s claims of an assassination plot against her as publicity stunt to garner public sympathy. Political scientist Dr Henry Chingaipe on Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) on Monday, described the death threats to the President as […]
Well-known comedian cum broadcaster turned prophet, John ‘Izeki’ Nyanga, on Tuesday announced he had stopped with immediate effect presenting a popular programme called Kalibu on Joy Radio citing he wants to concentrate on other commitments. Nyanga who was presenting the programme alongside his longtime colleague, Eric Mabedi, remorsefully announced during a programme he was presenting […]
Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) national convention slated for Tuesday in Blantyre which will select a National Chairman and 2014 presidential candidate will be covered live on private radio stations, Joy and Zodiak. UDF deputy publicity secretary Ken Ndanga told Nyasa Times that they have paid “live coverage” of the convention to Zodiak and Joy radio , saying […]
Despite his death, O’brien Nazombe will always remain imperative figure in the history of poetry as his contribution to the fraternity could not be easily erased nor measured. As a radio personality, he pioneered the recognition of poetry through the airwaves under renowned program, Patsinde-broadcast on Joy radio. He further initiated Chitsinde Chandakatulo, which remains […]
Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) has cut off transmission for one of the country’s private radio stations, Joy Radio, particularly in northern and central regions due to outstanding debt of over K1.4 million, Nyasa Times can reveal. Radio listeners in the central and northern regions are currently unable to access Joy Radio, which has been off […]