{"id":398758,"date":"2018-02-05T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=398758"},"modified":"2018-02-05T17:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:12:49","slug":"two-kenyan-tv-stations-back-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/two-kenyan-tv-stations-back-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kenyan TV stations back on air"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two private Kenyan TV stations are now back on air after being shut down for seven days.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment switches NTV and KTN News back on after seven days,\u201d privately-owned NTV said\u00a0on its live feed on YouTube.<\/p>\n
But the stations are only available on pay TV platforms. Two other stations – Citizen TV and Kikuyu-language station Inooro TV – remain off air.<\/p>\n
Earlier, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital, Nairobi, demanding that the government obey a court order to allow the stations to resume broadcasting until a final ruling is made.<\/p>\n
The government shut down four private TV stations on 30 January after they failed to abide by a state-imposed ban against broadcasting the “inauguration” of opposition leader Raila Odinga as the “people’s president”.<\/p>\n
Interior Minister Fred Matiang\u2019i had said the TV stations would remain closed until an investigation of the media houses was concluded.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two private Kenyan TV stations are now back on air after being shut down for seven days. \u201cGovernment switches NTV and KTN News back on after seven days,\u201d privately-owned NTV said\u00a0on its live feed on YouTube. But the stations are only available on pay TV platforms. Two other stations – Citizen TV and Kikuyu-language station […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":398760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n