KAMPALA, UGANDA. -
I hear that Uganda's NTV is going to try and show viewers in the country the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2010 live tomorrow evening, Saturday 29 May.
If the legal and logistical broadcasting related wranglings of this can be sorted out in time, it will be the first time that the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards ceremony - usually recorded live and then edited for later broadcast - will be broadcast live on television in Africa. The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2010 is taking place in Kampala, Uganda this year. With several Ugandan dignitaries set to attend, as well as Africa's most prestigious journalism competition that chose the African country as the place to have this year's event, NTV clearly wants to showcase this glam occasion to Ugandan viewers.
''The request has been made. It may happen and that in itself will have an implication for Saturday's awards ceremony.'' What a live broadcast will mean is a slightly reworked line-up, a slightly edited down ceremony in terms of breaks in-between (the usual awards usually entail a few retakes), presenters sticking closer to the teleprompter script and less banter, and a more stage-managed awards studio audience (who usually walks around too much anyway).
Irrespective of whether NTV gets to broadcast the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2010 live tomorrow evening or not, the awards ceremony celebrating African journalism across multiple mediums, will be broadcast on the eNews Channel (DStv 403) on July 12 in South Africa.
