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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that media houses and the Communications Authority of Kenya should go, sit down over coffee, and agree on a date for the complete switch-over to digital TV within 90 days.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">...The digital migration debacle in Kenya, therefore speaks to a bigger problem�and to a solution. Why did the Chinese firm, Star Times, beat the local competition? Was it hostility against the local media by someone in government and an attempt to �fix� them? Did kola nut change hands?</p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">We don�t know, but there are lessons that Kenyan media and private businesses need to take away from this episode. In the world today, disinterested, purely public-good driven policy by governments is rare.</p></div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenyas-digital-TV-migration/-/440808/2471696/-/3wahgi/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenyas-digital-TV-migration/-/440808/2471696/-/3wahgi/-/index.html</a> </div></body>
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