Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) Radio – Malawi’s leading private owned radio – Monday awarded scholarships to 8 outstanding girls in the 2013 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) to study in the People’s Republic of China and United States of America. The girls – Bainala Kaonga (Marymount), Mary Chitani (Marymount), Chitsanzo Kwawilira (Dowa Secondary School) – scored […]
Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) Managing Director Gospel Kadzako has asked President Joyce Banda to immediately halt the rate at which foreigners are acquiring Malawi’s land saying “one day we will discover that we are tenants in our own country.” Kadzako said this at the 2013/14 MSCE Best Girl Awards held in Mzuzu at the Marymount […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Supreme Court Judge Maxon Mbendera, on Friday took time in his speech to apologise to president of People’s Transformation Party Kamuzu Chibambo over a report on Zodiak Broadcasting Service that he had withdrawn from contesting in the presidential polls as he could not present his nomination papers Wednesday after he […]
In a bid to champion transparency in the way political parties in Malawi are funded, Zodiak Broadcasting Station will from this week enable its listeners fund their political parties using mobile phone money services. The listeners, using Airtel Money and TNM Mpamba, will be able to transfer money to the People’s Party (PP), Democratic Progressive […]
With just three months left before Malawi conducts her first ever tripartite elections, the British High Commission in Malawi jointly with private owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) have come up with a new political and current affairs programme aimed at taking an issue based approach to the political discourse in the country. The radio and […]
Police in Lilongwe are keeping in custody a man whose identify couldn not be independently verified for attempting to kidnap a baby belonging to a Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) journalist Josephy Mwanoka. The incident happened Monday 11th November, 2013. Mwanoka confirmed with Nyasa Times :“My wife was in the kitchen cooking so she left the […]
Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), which claims to be the leader in radio in Malawi, held a workshop for political parties last Thursday in Lilongwe to engender the parties to expectations of the radio station, and also provide a way forward on how the two, can work together. The participating parties were the ruling People’s Party […]
The latest radio listenership figures released by Malawi’s telecoms regulator, MACRA that put Zodiak Broadcasting Station 33% ahead of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is good news for Malawi democracy, just as it provides a good case that reforms at MBC are well overdue. Zodiak should be congratulated for the strides they have made on Malawi’s […]
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority MACRA says privately-owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) has emerged the most-listened to radio station in Malawi beating the state-run Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). MACRA conducted the survey in 2012 in 19 districts and each radio – that has been airing for over one year – was rated on its own. In listenership […]
Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) journalist, Raphael Mlozoa was on Friday, 25 August 2013 assaulted by bodyguards belonging to Malawi’s minister of Economic Planning and Development, Ralph Jooma. Mlozoa was accused of publishing false news by the minister. ZBS editor, Pilirani Phiri, confirmed the incident to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and said the […]
Police in Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi were on Sunday evening forced to detain a correspondent for a privately owned Zodiak radio Raphael Mulozoa for refusing to retract a story aired on the radio earlier in the day . Mulozoa had reported about the beating up of Economic Planning Minister and Ralph Jooma and the confiscation of a camera […]
Police in Machinga have refuted a story on Zodiac Broadcasting Station (ZBS) which alleged the Police in Machinga shot dead two people at Liwonde Road Block Sunday. Police Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Amos Tione said in an interview that Machinga Police was greatly shocked to hear the story unday afternoon as breaking news and Sunday […]
Lilongwe-based television network, Luso TV has pledged to change the way Malawian watch and relate to the small screen. Luso TV was among several TV and radio stations that were licensed by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) last month. The other notable awardees include Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), who will roll out Zodiak TV […]
Zodiak Broadcasting Station, Malawi’s most listened to private radio station has brushed aside speculations that it is facing logistical problems to roll out its television programmes. The media house’s managing director Gospel Kazako told Nyasa Times that they are working round the clock to make sure they deliver good Television coverage. “We don’t have any […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has decide that her entourage on foreign presidential engagements should now be including members of the private media to enable them service their own audience. President Banda has taken the unprecedented decision to deliver on her commitment of ensuring that the media in Malawi should be an integral partner in the […]
Dedza Magistrate court on Friday sentenced Innocent Bwanali to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) after being found guilty in two counts of impersonating and forgery. According to court records, Bwanali forged an identity card for a locally private owned radio station Zodiak Broadcasting Cooperation (ZBS) which he was using as a reporter representing the said […]
Nation Publications Limited (NPL) and Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) were the only media organizations in print and electronic category respectively which dominated the annual Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa – MISA-Malawi awards presentation ceremony held at Mount Soche hotel in Blantyre on Saturday. The awards were presented as part of commemorating […]
Zodiak Broadcasting Services (ZBS) on Friday held its first presidential debate – between three aspirants for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president in the forthcoming tightly contested poll. Presidential hopefuls who have presented their nominations papers include former cabinet minister Jodder Kanjere, Malawi Assemblies of God president Rev Dr Lazarus Chakwera, current secretary general Chris Daza, […]