Renowned TV presenters, Calvin Da Entertainer and Buddies Production boss, David Kazoora, are up in arms over UBC Magic 1 TV.
Calvin has been managing the station since its inception over three years ago. However, his woes started last year following the arrival of Simon Kaheru as the Board of Chairman of UBC, who then engaged the services of Kazoora as a provider of content for both Magic 1 TV and Radio.
However, according to sources, Kazoora has literally assumed the role of manager of both stations, putting him on collision with the staff that he found in place including Calvin Da Entertainer.
Sources say the beef between the two peaked last week when Magic One TV won an award at the Buzz Teniez awards. The award was picked by Calvin, who Kazoora instructed to take the award to the station, but the request was blatantly rejected, with Calvin saying the award was in recognition for his hustle.
“We need the award. How dare you say this is your hustle, what hustle? ……you work for UBC not Magic…u,” a seemingly furious Kazoora wrote.
Meanwhile, Calvin is not alone in the fight. Other staff who Kaheru found at UBC have either resigned or are aggrieved with the new management.
One such person is veteran journalist, Tonny Owana, who at one time was head of UBC’s Star TV.
In a recent statement to media, Owana decried the workings of the new management. He said that whereas Kazoora had come as a content provider, he ended up acquiring ‘Magic TV’ and its sister radio station Magic 100 FM, promising to share with government (or UBC) the millions he would generate from his venture.
“Kazoora also came in as a content provider to Magic 100 FM but top officials at UBC recently told Sunday Vision that Kazoora is providing technology to UBC. Technology! Suspicious employees were assured that copies of the contracts empowering these two innovations would be shown to them, but we are yet to see them.
“And perhaps in line with revolutionary methods of work, we hear that the UBC contracts committee was not involved. To this we add the partnership with the Chinese StarTimes conglomerate, about which I know very little. I find it difficult to believe that the president does not know that UBC will soon be another collection of private media houses under an umbrella along Nile Avenue.”
