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General News on Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Source: otecfmghana.com
2019-06-04
The award was received by the general manager of Otec FM, Ebenezer Sarpong Mantey
Kumasi-based private radio station Otec FM received the "Life Achievement Award" at the first-ever Ashanti Regional Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Awards at the Miklin Hotel in Kumasi on Friday, May 31, 2019.
Under the theme "The mandate of the media to promote sustainable environmental sanitation", Otec FM, Ghana's first private commercial radio station, has been rewarded for its core values of projecting the goodness of the people .
The award was presented by GJA National President Roland Affail Monney to Otec FM General Manager Ebenezer Sarpong Mantey.
Accompanied by a quote, it reads: "You have news and current affairs programs that use a lot of professionalism and have the ability to filter relevant issues of interest to your target audience. and which are currently updated on local and international news. constant internal training of your staff. "
A quote from the quote also states: "The format of your unique Twi dialect program has earned you an appreciable level of over 3.5 million audiences in the market segment, mostly from the middle clbad to the upper clbad. not necessarily of the generally educated clbad. "
"In fact, being the first radio station in Ghana, you can boast of supplying manpower to almost every radio station in Ghana, with the broadcast schedule and names becoming a model for them too. ", Concluded the quote.
In all, 21 journalists from 11 media houses were awarded in 24 categories. The award brings to two, the number of awards that the station has received in 2019, the first being the "House of the Best Performing Media" in Ghana, 2018, by the Confederation of Governance, the Institute for the Arts, and the Institute of Public Health. Governance Assessment (COGAI).
Otec FM was created by Mr. Oppong Twumasi, who died in 1986 at CPC Kumasi, before moving to Asawasi, near the roundabout of Manhyia Palace.
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