Newsbreaks, exciting programmes planned for coming months
By RACHNA LAL
In light of the overwhelming public demand for FBC TV’s most popular local show, Bati Ni Tanoa, the station will take this out to the community this month.
Fiji Broadcasting Corporation chief executive, Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, said they will be starting off with this in a non-typical fashion.
“Usually what happens is when there is a show for the first time, it is done in the capital first – in Suva,” he said.
“But we realised that Suva is not Fiji. Fiji is made up of a lot of other places and we want to take it to the West of the country first.
“This would be to give the people of the West a taste of one of our most iconic programmes.”
The show will therefore be held on June 15, this Saturday in the evening, at the Churchill Park in Lautoka.
The show’s message
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said the show deals with not only entertainment, but also education in terms of nation-building.
“The message it conveys on a weekly basis is on how we can live together as proud Fijians and do all we can to build our nation,” he said.
Giving back to
community
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said for the show in Lautoka, they plan on having all the stars of Bati Ni Tanoa there along with some musical element.
“We wanted to give something back to the community,” he said.
“It is a very exciting thing for us to do because we are taking our TV show back to the grassroots, back to the community.”
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum indicated if this is successful, they would make this a regular event in the FBC calendar.
News breaks
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum indicated they are also almost ready to launch their new breaks soon.
Whilst not giving away too much, Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said it would be a newsbreak with a difference.
“The newsbreaks will be done in the vernaculars in iTaukei and Hindustani on weeknights but there will be something different about this,” he said.
“This is also in line with plans that FBC TV is about launching a whole lot of new programmes which are local.
“We are working on several concepts at the moment and we are expanding so quickly that it sometimes feels like it is so hard to keep up.
“We should be launching some really exciting programmes for the people of Fiji in the coming months.”