K24

K24 was launched in 2007 as the first Kenyan 24-hours News bulletin network. The network is owned by TV Africa. K24 began with a dream team of 60, made up of mostly fresh graduates, supervised by seasoned journalists who underwent a rigorous three-month training on basic reporting from camerawork, news gathering, reporting and video editing. Churning out a half-hour bulletin proved to be daunting task and the question lingering in the minds of many was how the station would generate news content 24 hours a day.

It is at this time, that what is arguably Kenya’s favorite talk show, which premiered as ‘The Future of Kenya’ was born. The show, the brainchild of award-winning journalist Jeff Koinange, would later be renamed ‘Capital Talk’ as the latter was a mouthful.

In the initial stages, securing guests for a seven-day talk show was an uphill task. Meanwhile, the new crop of reporters were cutting their teeth in Kenya’s first 24-hour network, putting the basic training they had received to the test.

In two short years, K24 had made a mark in the broadcast industry as the station bagged award after award – from the Martin Luther King peace award, the CNN/Multichoice environmental award, the Kenya Media Network for Population and Development award for the anti-FGM campaign and the anti-jigger campaign award.

K24 became the first Kenyan television station to stream live on the internet, giving their diaspora viewers a taste of real Kenyan stories told to them in real time. In order to reflect the changing trends in the media space, the station unveiled its new face after month’s of hard work. And on June 28th, K24 began transmitting its news and other programming from its state-of-the-art facilities.
Since its inception to date, K24 has continued to scale the heights in broadcast journalism.