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 […]
Joy TV and Zodiak Broadcasting Station have reached out to incumbent Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Mac Millan Walter Nyamilandu and his growing list of challengers to propose a television debate ahead of December 18 elections. Nyamilandu seeks a fourth four-year term and is facing challenge from golfer and prominent lawyer John Gift Mwakhwawa, Owen […]
Joy Media Group will soon launch a fully digitalized television station which has already started beaming and employed over 60 Malawians in different fields. According to sources, Joy Media Group which is owned by the family of the former president Bakili Muluzi is one of the first television stations to transmit through digital. Malawi like […]
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 […]
The Minister of Information, Moses Kunkuyu has directed Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) to give Television Licence to Joy Television Limited which was revoked in 2007. Kunkuyu said this on Friday during his familiarisation tour to Joy Radio Fm station which is located in Naperi, commercial city of Blantyre. He said broadcasting plays a very […]
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 […]
Malawi’s electronic media should brace for more competition following the awarding of broadcasting licences to four TV stations and four radio stations by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra). The regulator called for applications of TV and radio license application in 2009. Macra director general Charles Nsaliwa said the four television stations have out-bidden fellow […]
Malawi’s private Joy TV says it will register in Zambia as a limited liability company in that country and will beam to Southern Africa without interfering with any frequency dismissing claims by Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) that it will be “illegal.” Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi told The Nation newspaper and Capital Radio’s Daybreak Malawi that […]
A Lilongwe based media expert has warned that Joy Television broadcasting from Zambia will be dangerous to President Bingu Wa Mutharika and his administration than leaving the TV station to broadcast in Malawi. His comments follow an announcement that newly elected Zambian President Micheal Sata has given a green light to Joy Television, which has […]
Ex-president Bakili Muluzi’s Joy TV which was stopped by Malawi authorities on its inception has been permitted to establish their station in Zambia’s Eastern Province, according to President Micheal Sata. Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) denied Joy television broadcasts in 2007, when it had already started beaming. But son to former president Muluzi, Atupele, requested […]