By Tuhairwe Joab
The Bwaise based TOP TV, is one of Uganda’s long serving Christian television. It also has got a top place on a list of all TV stations in the country though it has been trapped in a series of problems.
Among them are constant complaints from its workers about their payments. It was discovered that TOP TV was among the companies in Uganda that have not been paying their workers well. At times employees would go for months without any pay and when it came, it would still be pea nuts. Most of them were forced to relinquish their jobs.
Need for better programming and production. With the station locking up its self to only Christianity related programs, it was a challenge to satisfy their customers’ needs due to a limited scope of material and therefore going secular automatically widens the scope of material available.
Recently, it was resolved that the station will not only be airing Christian shows and music videos but also secular for purposes of widening its fan base and hence create more avenues for a station to generate income. This comes shortly after the management of the station was taken over by a Kenyan.
From the board meeting, they resolved that for the station to be able to compete favorably with other stations in the country, there is need to diversify and make it business oriented and as a matter of fact, there has been new recruits at the station ranging from the production team to management in order to effect this.