Its no longer news waking up only to find that your favourite media channel has closed down. It has been happening in Kenya media industry several times. Urban Christian station Kubamba radio has closed down after suffering financial constraints in running the business for quite a while.
The station has been struggling financially, something that made it unstable with key employees getting laid off as others resigned due to the hard times. A WhatsApp status update from Kubamba gave the clarification as it was written; “Kubamba, since its inception, relied heavily on donors and when they pulled it became hard for the business to run.”
Some of the former staff members said that they went for months without pay. A post they
It’s said that the frequency belongs to a Nairobi business magnate who recovered it as business between him and the investors