7-410: NMG can refer to: Nation Media Group , Kenyan media company NMG (radio station) , of National Hurricane Center Nederlandsche Meisjes Gilde (Dutch Girls Guild), later merged into Scouting Nederland New Music Gathering , American conference/festival for contemporary music Myers Motors NmG (No More Gas), an electric car Topics referred to by
14-557: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nation Media Group Nation Media Group ( NMG ), formerly known as East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd , is an East African media group based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange . It is owned by Aga Khan IV . NMG was founded in 1959 by Aga Khan IV as East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, under
21-592: The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development . In 1999, NMG launched NTV , a news channel in Kenya, and Easy FM (now known as Nation FM). As of 2007 the group was the largest private media house in East and Central Africa , with offices in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The group publications include: The Daily Nation and its Sunday edition, the Sunday Nation , celebrated their 50th anniversaries in 2010, branded by
28-714: The Group are listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange and are cross-listed at the Uganda Securities Exchange as well as the Rwanda Stock Exchange , trading at all three bourses under the symbol "NMG". As of December 2014, there were a total of 10,436 shareholders in the company. Of these, 4,135, owned 1 to 500 shares each, with a cumulative total of 782,157 shares, controlling 0.41 percent of the company. The seven largest shareholders controlled 62.57 percent of
35-721: The Nation Media Group as "50 Golden Years". Regional Presence As of 2016 NMG owned a 76.5% stake in the Monitor Publications Limited and 93.3 KFM, a Kampala -based radio station in Uganda. It also owns two television stations in the country, NTV Uganda and Spark TV. NMG also has a 60% shareholding in Mwananchi Communications Limited' in Tanzania. The group's East African subsidiaries, especially
42-520: The Tanzanian business, contribute significantly to growth in the group. In March 2016, NMG commissioned a new state-of-the art printing press on Mombasa Road in Nairobi. The new facility has capacity to print 86,000 newspapers per hour. It cost KSh2 billion (about US$ 20 million) and will print the dailies Daily Nation , Business Daily , Taifa Leo and the weekly The EastAfrican . The shares of stock of
49-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NMG . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NMG&oldid=1149242320 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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