Radio&TV Personality Awards: Magnify your myopic lenses far and wide

Radio &Television Personality Awards: Magnify your myopic lenses far and wide.

Ghana media needs a proper award scheme that will cater and cover media personnel working in the whole of Ghana and not only in Accra as Mr Mackay of R.T. P awards knows best.

Some awarding bodies (Companies) in Ghana should be seriously careful with the way they go about deceiving the Ghanaian people with their so called awards.

2014 will be heralded as the year that Ghanaians refused any sort of mediocrity in shape or form whatsoever.

How on earth, should a living legend like Mr Tommy Annan Forson: the cherished darling of our frequencies be hanging in the balance as to the whereabouts of an award he has won since some time ago.

So organizers of the Ghana DJ awards, make sure you do your job well.

Although Mr Mackay and his Big Event cohorts have argumentatively done a yeoman's work by establishing the R.T.P award scheme, to benefit those they deem fit for adulation and congratulation in the electronic media quarters, they have justifiably not been able to leave up to their namesake: Big Event.

The big question which still remains to be answered is whether the R.T. P awards is a tonic for media personalities who mostly work in Accra. If not, then tell us why it seems as such.

What is so big about this event if the organisers think Ghana is only made up of Accra. This is because, there are equally some vast amount of radio stations and presenters if not television stations, in the other regions of Ghana, who are all shaping the society and nation at large.

Moreover when it is time for the awards, all they do is to confer most of the awards to radio personalities living and plying their trade in the capital Accra. What a shame.

However the Big Event management, have just realised what a herculean task they have taken upon their struggling shoulders.

The first edition happened arguably very smooth, with the exception of leaving out most of the radio presenters working in the hinterlands of Ghana.

The second edition did not see the light of day, owing to tangible reasons reasonable only to the management of Big Event, while the third came with a lot of daring controversies here and there not forgetting the last minute change of venues.

Having been able to inaugurate such an award scheme in Ghana but not Accra alone next time, Mr Mackay and his team of workers still deserve some pad on their shoulders and to some extent more grease to their creaking elbows.

The mere introduction of this award has benefited some radio presenters who did not even know how a gong, a plaque or a statuette looks like.

All that the numerous fans and audience of radio presenters are saying and still asking is that, come this year or would it be next year, ok whichever year it might be.

Mr Mackay and his team should cast their net very wide to cover not only Accra but to include all the other regions that make up Ghana as a country. Because we have some great talents in the media industry as far as the other regions are involved.

If not, the blame of radio presenters moving from the other regional capitals to Accra will be put on Mr Mackay. Because who knows, maybe they are all coming to Accra with the hope of working and winning a radio and television personality award.

As there are always rooms for improvement, the keys to those rooms are all in the courts of Mr Mackay and his Big Event management.

BY YAW NKETIA: TOUCHING YOU FROM A DISTANCE WHILE COLLECTING, COLLATING AND REPORTING.