Author: Our Reporter

Although Bettinah Tianah is currently featuring on magazine covers and threatening to sue night clubs in United States, the situation seems dire back home. Following Sheilah Gashumba’s expose on the low pay in the media industry, more beans have been spilled about the official pay for various TV presenters… According to an inside source at NTV; “NMG introduced a new policy that one should be paid depending on the financial abilities of their show. Basically to motivate presenters to work hard at making their shows big.” “At the time, Style Project , a fashion show on NTV has no major…

For the first time, Uganda’s most paid TV Presenter has spoken out about the world many people never knew about the TV Industry in Uganda. The expose comes at a peak of the TV wars in Uganda as NBS TV and NTV each struggle for attention. In her expose, Sheilah talks of the time she was earning just UGX 50,000 per show. “Even when I did the fashion show on NTV, I was being paid UGX 100K per show. That meant UGX 400K a month yet I was living a million shilling lifestyle. I was literally faking it all through.…