Metro FM presenter and Idols judge Unathi Msengana confirmed yesterday that she was sent an e-mail on Monday by her station manager Martin Vilakazi instructing her not to do any interviews with the Idols winner or any competitor.
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| Gareth, Khaya and Unathi |
"This morning [Wednesday] an instruction was personally given to me by my station manager not to interview Khaya. No explanation was given. I had to obey and ask no questions because he is my boss." Msengana said fellow Idols judge Gareth Cliff, who works for SABC's 5FM, received the same instructions
SA Idols spokeswoman Ingrid Lebinburg said that they do not know what is happening. Nobody from SABC said anything to them. “We are still waiting for them to come to us and explain."
SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago denied that the SABC sent an instruction like that. "This is not true and it is ridiculous. We did not issue instructions like that. To start with, Unathi is not even supposed to comment to the media. I am the SABC spokesperson."Secondly she is even conflicted by working on Idols when she works for SABC.
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Kganyago then confirmed that they decided that Unathi and Gareth do not interview Khaya because they were conflicted. Idols belong to another station and not the SABC. Kganyago said that there is no cross-promotional agreement between Idols and the SABC.
M-Net communications manager Lani Lombard confirmed that "scheduled interviews for the breakfast shows on 5FM and Metro FM were cancelled on Tuesday night". However, Khaya was interviewed on Metro FM on Wednesday night.
Kaizer Kganyago stories are all mixed up; he says this today and another thing tomorrow. Is it perhaps that the SABC are jealous that they have not been able to pull off such a popular event themselves?
I agree with you they are jealous that their shows are boring and people do not watch them and they were wrong for letting Khaya to be affected by such issues.
ReplyDeleteKganyago failed to be objective on this one. The SABC should stop repeating programmes and put their creative heads together to come up with something extraordinary...otherwise they'll still repeat the same shows in 10 years time.
Deletetotaly Sabc needs an exteme makeover.
Deletei think kaizer kganyago stories are not making sense too because if they whereinterviews of other idols competitor during the show and for him to say that it is because the is no cross promotional agreement i don't understand why the other compititors where interviewed and i don't think that Unathi and Garreth can lie about this when knowing that they work there
ReplyDeleteHis stories aren't making sense yes, he is just being difficult.
DeleteThe SABC is just not being fair to khaya, coz if the judges like unathi were not suppose to work for their competitor then why they didnt say so from the beggining.
ReplyDeleteThey arent being objective, I mean what does Khaya have to do with cross promotional agreements?
DeleteI think it is unproffesional and naive for them to do such a thing.
ReplyDeleteIt is very unprofessional
DeleteI think that the SABC has acted unproffetional because Unathi and Gareth can not say the same thing while the SABC is claimimng not to have given tem such instructions.
ReplyDeleteAt the end Kganyago confirmed that in actual fact it is true.
DeleteSABC management needs to grow up and find ways of findings solutions instead of sulking and making idiotic decisions. Khaya probably has more fans who listen to Unathi and Glen every morning. The decision does not serve the interests of Metro listeners. As the public broadcaster the SABC has a duty to inform the public particularly on topical news. By refusing to interview Khaya and by putting corporate politics ahead of their public mandate, the SABC is doing its listeners a big disservice. Like I said Khaya being the first black idol is topical news and millions of listeners would have loved for him to be interviewed, this really sucks and so unprofessional. I am not going to listen to Metro Fm anymore and I wish all their listeners boycott this radio station
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't. Kganyago must just stop being petty and find ways of finding better programmes for the SABC
Deletei think SABC is just concerned to be associated to mnet DSTV channel if they do interviews with the idols winner. this two media corporations are on opposite sides of the fense after all its nothing personal just business though it may seem cold
ReplyDeleteBut then Khaya has nothing to do with that, he won Idols and should be getting all the media exposure that he deserves. The fact that he won on M-net shouldn't make a difference.
Deleteindeed they are jealus and selfish, khaya is just an individual who won in the competition he doen't work for m-net, so why they baned his interview... this type of professionalism shows the mismanagement and inaccurate of sabc
ReplyDeleteMy point exactly, Khaya didn't sign any contracts with dstv that he cant be interviewed on metro fm and 5fm.
DeleteSABC is a national broadcast and i think they should accomodate everyone without fear or favour of anyone.
ReplyDeleteYes they should, instead they are worried about useless things
DeleteIts a very irrational decision whichever way one looks at it. Commercially the news of Khaya's win would have increased listenership. From a competition point of view, the SABC should not look at M-Net as a competitor they are much bigger than M-Net, they have the biggest reach in the country, particularly with radio. They should have just run with a story that is newsworthy and forget whether the story comes from the Star, Sowetan, M-Net or any other source.
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