@Bogi,
I can't remember how I came by this information, but this is what I know...

For a show to have marketable appeal to the major media houses, it needs to have a large enough potential marketable audience.

And therein lies the catch 22.

For a techie show to have a large audience for make financial sense to the media houses, it needs to be dumbed down. The moment you dumb it down, then it looses its appeal to most geeks since they will consider it, well, to be polite, a waste of time watching.

For example, there is that techísh column in the Nation, written by a dude called Sam, I think. I would most certainly postulate that he is forced to simplify it.

Larry Madowo used to have a very nice techie show, where he was not at liberty to dumb it down, and it was great! But, it was positioned at around mid day, who watches tv at that time really?

Unless of course, media houses are not the distribution medium, in which case the aforementioned catch 22 does not exist.




On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Francis Njenga <korefn@gmail.com> wrote:
It is a great i-dea. I'd be up for it.

Ideally there would have to be a direction from some(one/organization). I'm to assume its skunks.

Why not get the space and invite us.



On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:52 PM, John Matogo <jmatogo@strathmore.edu> wrote:
Great Idea.
I would support this.

Regards.

JM

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Bogi Benga <bogibenda@gmail.com> wrote:
greetings fellow Skunks,

It is evident from the list and the great IT minds we have in KE and now with Konza city coming up, I believe that the market is ripe for a special tech TV show

This could be an avenue to discuss anything from
  • latest products and softwares
  • Geeky Gadgets
  • Phone specs and benchmarking
  • Gaming
  • Hacking awareness (the IEBC clip fallacy could be put to rest here)
  • Animations
  • Benchmarking various internet providers and Mobile providers
the list is endless. Here is another idea, what better way than to get our best minds to produce and host it. This can be owned by us, the skunks

We can take it this idea up, conceptualise and, host it and sell it to a major station

What say you?


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