Covid-19 impact on media industry Archives

Covid-19: Media industry bleeds as adverts dry up against rising costs of operation

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryJune 11, 2020June 12, 2020

The media industry is well known for telling everybody’s story and hardly their own, but the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 has changed all this. For the first time in a long time, we have seen major media groups in Uganda coming out openly about their economic hardships cutting costs by pulling down some publications and cutting salaries which take the bulk of costs of operation. 88.2 Sanyu Fm Uganda’s oldest surviving private radio station has become the latest to announce a 25 per cent salary revision for its staff. While several other media houses have announced and implemented salary…

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“Regrettable but inevitable”: Dr Sudhir speaks out about 88.2 Sanyu FM staff exits, says the station is now hiring fresh talent

Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany News The Big StoryJune 11, 2020June 11, 2020

Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia, the Chairman and founder of the Ruparelia Group that runs and owns 88.2 Sanyu FM has spoken out in detail, explaining the staff exits at Uganda’s No.1 youth radio station. In a phone interview with this reporter, Dr. Sudhir said that the exits are regrettable but inevitable given the business circumstances, although he quickly hastened to add that in the actual sense, it was the staff that had chosen to lay down their tools and in effect sacking themselves. “We made a business decision to cost-cut so as to make the business sustainable and protect jobs. We…

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