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Capital FM Kenya
98.4 Capital FM (other variations of the name include Capital FM and Capital FM Kenya) is a Kenyan urban music radio station. Location Its offices are situated in Two Rivers, the largest mall in East Africa, Nairobi; the capital and largest city in Kenya. The coordinates of the radio station are:1°17'06.0"S, 36°49'22.0"E (Latitude:-1.285013; Longitude:36.822767). Background Established in 1996, shortly after the liberalisation of Kenyan airwaves, it became the second FM station after 101.9 Metro FM. Since then, several FM stations have emerged, catering to diverse audiences. Despite this, 98.4 Capital FM remains a popular station, especially among the middle-class and upper-class markets. The presenters play a variety of genres i.e.hip hop, RnB, rock, neo soul, new jack swing, world music, jazz, techno and dance music. Capital FM now caters to Mombasa, Western Kenya, as well as the international community through online streaming. When President Barack Obama visited Keny ...
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Megahertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base units is 1/s or s−1, meaning that one hertz is one per second or the reciprocal of one second. It is used only in the case of periodic events. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. For high frequencies, the unit is commonly expressed in multiples: kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), terahertz (THz). Some of the unit's most common uses are in the description of periodic waveforms and musical tones, particularly those used in radio- and audio-related applications. It is also used to describe the clock speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven. The units are sometimes also used as a representation o ...
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Zain Verjee
Zain Verjee (born February 11, 1974) is a Kenyan-born Canadian journalist based in Nairobi and the Los Angeles area. She is a former CNN anchor and correspondent. Education Verjee was born in Kenya and attended Hillcrest Prep School and Hillcrest Secondary School in Nairobi. She later received her undergraduate degree in English from McGill University in Montreal. She graduated from Oxford University with a Master of Studies degree in Creative Writing. Career Journalism Verjee started working as a radio DJ for 98.4 Capital FM. She became more interested in journalism after the reporting of the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, which was close to the radio station. She became a news presenter on Kenya Television Network shortly afterward, as well as doing some work for the BBC. Verjee joined CNN in 2000. As the State Department correspondent covering Condoleezza Rice, Verjee travelled the world covering U.S. foreign policy. Among her journeys, she covered the ...
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Mass Media In Nairobi
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particles, theoretically with the same amount of matter, have nonetheless different masses. Mass in modern physics has multiple definitions which are conceptually distinct, but physically equivalent. Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass is not the same as weight, even though mass is often determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh less than it ...
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Radio Stations In Kenya
Mass media in Kenya includes more than 91 FM stations, more than 64 free to view TV stations, and an unconfirmed number of print newspapers and magazines. Publications mainly use English as their primary language of communication, with some media houses employing Swahili. Vernacular or community-based languages are commonly used in broadcast media; mostly radio. Kenya's state-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts in both English and Swahili plus various vernacular languages. Royal Media services are the largest private national broadcaster with 13 radio stations and three TV stations with countrywide coverage . It also broadcasts in both English and Swahili plus various vernacular languages. A dozen private radio and television stations have ranges that are limited to the Nairobi area. The Government of Kenya started the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication to produce highly skilled personal in the communications and creative art industries. KIMC's training program ...
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Music Organisations Based In Kenya
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. While scholars agree that music is defined by a small number of specific elements, there is no consensus as to what these necessary elements are. Music is often characterized as a highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. Diverse activities are involved in the creation of music, and are often divided into categories of composition, improvisation, and performance. Music may be performed using a wide variety of musical instruments, including the human voice. It can also be composed, sequenced, or otherwise produced to be indirectly played mechanically or electronically, such as via a music box, barrel organ, or digital audio workstation software on a computer. Music often plays a key r ...
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Walt "Baby" Love
Rev. Walter Shaw,Kithcart, David and Roderick ThomasThe Rev. Walt 'Baby' Love: Praise Him Through the Storm ''The 700 Club''. 8 June 2007. who goes by the on-air nickname Walt "Baby" Love, is a radio host in the United States. Having been in the business for over 35 years, Walt 'Baby' Love hosted three syndicated radio programs, ''Gospel Traxx'', ''The Countdown'' and ''The Urban AC Countdown.'' All three featured, at Love's insistence, "clean" versions of popular songs. Biography Walt has been the host of three uplifting radio programs: The Countdown with Walt "Baby Love" which aired for an unprecedented twenty nine years, from August 1982 thru August 2011; Gospel Traxx for twenty-seven years (and still going strong); and The Urban AC Countdown for fifteen years. Walt was raised in the small farming community of Creighton, Pennsylvania in East Deer Township. It was in the metropolis of Houston, Texas where he landed his big break at KYOK AM Radio in February 1968. He went on ...
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Rick Dees Weekly Top 40
''Rick Dees Weekly Top 40'' (sometimes known as ''The Weekly Top 40'') is an internationally syndicated radio program created and hosted by American radio personality Rick Dees. It is currently heard on over 200 radio stations worldwide. It is distributed domestically by Compass Media Networks and internationally by Radio Express. It is also heard on Dees's official website for listeners in the United States only. The Weekly Top 40 countdown is available in two versions: ''Hit Radio'' (for Top 40 stations), and ''Hot Adult'' (for Hot AC stations). A version for AC stations called ''Weekly Top 30'' debuted in July 2009; it has since been cut to 20 songs. From 2006-2008, a version made specifically for Rhythmic AC stations existed, which consisted of older rhythmic songs alongside current hits (with very little hip-hop/rap songs charting). History The Weekly Top 40 debuted in September 1983, after Rick's then-station, KIIS-FM, lost ''American Top 40'' to a rival station, KIQQ ...
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Rick Dees
Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show '' The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown'' and for the 1976 satirical novelty song " Disco Duck". Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He performed the title song for the film '' Meatballs''. He co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network Fine Living, now the Cooking Channel, and has hosted ''Rick Dees in the Morning'' at KIIS-FM and KHHT in Los Angeles. Today he continues his own syndicated daily radio show, ''Daily Dees'' and the syndicated ''Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown'' and the voice announcer on the network Rewind TV. Early life Dees was born Rigdon Osmond Dees III in Jacksonville, Florida, on March 14, 1950. He was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dees graduated from ...
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Disk Jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music festivals), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties, or festivals), and turntablists (who use record players, usually turntables, to manipulate sounds on phonograph records). Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who mix music from other recording media such as cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names. DJs commonly use audio equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously. This enables them to blend tracks together to cre ...
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Big Brother Africa
''Big Brother Africa'' is the African version of the international reality television franchise ''Big Brother'' created by producer John de Mol Jr. in 1997. The show was first aired in 2003 for one season on M-Net and broadcast to audiences in 42 African countries. In 2007, the show was back from four-year hiatus, until it got cancelled after season nine in 2014. The African version initially involved 12 countries within Africa (Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe) with two countries (Ethiopia and Mozambique) being added in season 4 and two other countries (Liberia and Sierra Leone) being added in season 7 while Rwanda was added in season 9. Each country provides at least one contestant living in an isolated house while trying to avoid being evicted by viewers and ultimately winning a large cash prize at the end of the show. The show is co-produced by Endemol South Africa. A special edition of the ''Big ...
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Gaetano Kagwa
Gaetano Jjuko Kagwa is a Ugandan actor and broadcaster. He currently co-hosts the breakfast show ''Gaetano & Lucky in the Morning'' at 91.3 Capital FM with Lucky Mbabazi. He is a judge on '' East Africa's Got Talent'' alongside Dj Makeda, Jeff Koinange and Vanessa Mdee. Early life and education He was born Gaetano Jjuko Kagwa on 22 June 1972 in Kampala, Uganda. He moved to Kenya when he was five years old and then to Lesotho when he was nine. In Lesotho, he completed his high school education. In 1993, he joined the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, US, where he graduated with a degree in political science in 1997. Career Kagwa played Abe Sakku on Nana Kagga's TV series ''Beneath the Lies – The Series''. He rose to fame when he represented Uganda in the first edition of ''Big Brother Africa'' in 2003. He has also hosted the television show ''Studio 53'' on Mnet. From 2004 to 2008, he was the host of the ''Capital in the Morning Show'' on Kenyan radio station 98.4 Capit ...
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Eve D'Souza
Eve D'Souza (born 11 March 1979) is a Kenyan media personality, radio presenter and actress. She was a radio presenter at 98.4 Capital FM from 2001 until she left in November 2010. Early life D'Souza was born on 11 March, 1979 in Mombasa, Kenya to Andrew and Martina D’Souza. She has two siblings, Sharon and Jason D’Souza. She attended Loreto Convent and Aga Khan High School, Mombasa. She later joined Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi where she attained a Bachelor of Education degree in English and English Literature. She is related to Indian actor Genelia D'Souza. Personal life D'Souza married Simon Anderson on 16 November 2020 in a private wedding. Career In 2001, D'Souza joined 98.4 Capital FM till November 2010 hosting Mid morning show, Hits not Home work, The East African Chart and Capital in the Morning. She later ran Moonbeam Productions, a television producer responsible for '' Auntie Boss!'', a sitcom that she co-produces and stars in, and became ...
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