New private radio station launched
MASERU — A new private radio station, Tšenolo FM, was officially launched in Khubetsoana on Tuesday.
The station becomes the 11th radio station in Lesotho.
Speaking at the official launch, Minister of Communications Science and Technology, Tšeliso Mokhosi, said “it is the responsibility of the media to set the agenda for the nation by disseminating messages of development”.
The minister said this will help improve people’s lives, alleviate poverty, create employment and change the lives of Basotho.
He said the media should work hard to empower people to become independent instead of looking to the government for food aid.
Tšenolo FM founder and owner, Mohau Kobile, said the radio station will focus more on investigating issues of concern to the public.
Kobile said lack of access to information and lack of a media policy remained a challenge to local journalists and urged the minister to address these concerns.
A local media analyst, Motlatsi Majara, appealed to government ministers to be available when needed to respond to issues raised in the media.
“Our media should work hard on presenting non-violent politics and educational messages instead of confrontational news which take the country nowhere,” he said.
The station manager, Tumelo Mokete, said Tšenolo FM will broadcast news every hour adding that 85 percent of their programmes will be talk shows.
“Our target audience is people aged 18 and above. We will provide unbiased information as we will be catering for people of different religions and norms,” Mokete said.
Mokete said they will be broadcasting in Sesotho.
The station employs 10 people.
Tšeliso Tale is the programmes manager.
Radio has a long history in Lesotho.
The first radio station went on air in 1960 with the first private radio station, People’s Choice (PC) FM, going on air in 1998.
The previous government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili had a frosty relationship with private radio stations. It often accused the radio stations of broadcasting hate speech and inciting people to embark on street protests.
In 2008, the government shut down Harvest FM radio station for three months for allegedly violating the country’s broadcasting laws by airing defamatory and inaccurate programmes.
Harvest FM however rejected the government’s claims saying it was being punished for daring to challenge the then status quo.
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Comment by Lefefooane on 20 December 2012:
Sick and tired of these so many mushrooms that do not add any value at all. Samething being recycled. There is no clear distinction between a lot of those so many mashroom radio stations hence a lot of them will collapse. If I were to ask, what type of listerners is this radio station (business) targeting? How will it be different from the already existing radio stations? Is the radio stations market profitable? To me we need abou 5 radio stations namely:
1.Radio government to tell us about activities of ministers alias news. They only thing that radio station tells us is that minister so and so did a good thing. Every day in their news they tell us about ministers opening schools or clinics or what ministers have said. That is all. Government propaganda and nothing beyond.
2. CRFM to preach to the Catholics.
3. PCFM to play to the youth and younger generation
4. Harvest FM to air some unresearched propaganda. Sometimes one needs a dose of such unresearched “hot staff” before one leaves for work.
5. Moafrika to directly compete with radio government in that rural areas in case the government misbehaves. Besides a lot of stuff on that radio is about herbs and village level news. Moafrika only resonates well in the villages.
The rest must close shop since the entire spectrum seems to have been well covered by radio government, Moafrika CRFM, Harvest and PCFM. Ha ke bue hampe. Probably one should venture into a tv market to try rival tv government. I am sick and tired of seeing ministers on my tv every day. We surely need change. Who said news is about ministers only. nxa!!!
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Comment by ngoangoangoa! on 20 December 2012:
kea e lebohisa Ts’enolo FM, eseka ekatla ka tse ncha, more espclly to empowr youth, eseka eka ba le mananeho a phatlalatsang likheo tsa mosebetsi.
Comment by Poqokahlanaka on 22 December 2012:
Kea le lebohisa bashoeshoe.fela nna ha ke khahloe hoba kea tseba se tlo sebelisoa hampe khahlanong le basotho ba bang.lialemoea tseo re li bitsang tsa rona(comunity),eka ha lina chebelopele.ke bo nkhatekehlaname,tsatsing lena se shebisoa koana,hosane se shebisoa koana.
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ekaba molemo ha Tshenolo Fm eka bua haholo ka thobalano(SEX) mananeong a yona. Mosotho o tseba feela hore mosadi a robale leyena empa asa mokgotsofatse! Banna ba entse basadi dithepa tsa bona.
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haesale basotho ba bina Lesotho Vision 2020 ka melomo ea bona . le tlae phethahatsa neng?ke ‘muso o fitileng moo honeng ho bapaloa ka basotho le lichelete tsa bona .motho ea nang le bophethahatsi retlamo fumana neng?offising eo ke bonang eka tema ekaba teng bophethahatsing kea semashipi ,ebile eka ere bontsitse ka libini tsa famo.hotlisa khotso.
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tsenolo fm khotsaletsa ‘muso oa letsema ho sebelisa offisi ea semanashipi ho phethahatsa Vision 2020,please. mananeho a lona ha a ikamahanye le ntlafatso,. chakelang offising eno.
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