Friday, September 07, 2007

Rivalry in radio must stop


By Jacquiline Afua Bondzi Posted: Friday, September 07, 2007

The radio business in Ghana has eventually become one of the enviable jobs. Most young ones now look up to some radio personalities as their role models and mentors some due to the ways they carry themselves on radio and others just like their personal life styles behind the scenes.
One big question that keeps bothering the minds of many is “Why presenters do becomes enemies of their previous stations the moment they are “poached out” or leave for another station?

Management and board members of radio stations travel outside the capital and other urban centers to the “rural areas” to poach vibrant personalities into the big cities to work with yet they see nothing wrong with that but the moment a station in the city poach a presenter from a station in the city there is rivalry and hatred.

Read more at the Ghanian Chronicle
http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com/thestory.asp?id=3680