The Nation Media Group is the biggest unconventional media house in East and Central Africa. It runs activities in print, broadcast and digital media, which meet the need of a huge audience in Kenya.
NMG was established by Aga Khan IV in 1959 and is the biggest private media house in East and Central Africa with offices in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. In 1999, NTV and Easy FM was initiated.
NMG IS committed to generating and creating content that will inform, educate and entertain its consumers, without forgetting the emerging trends in the industry.
The group publications include The EastAfrican, Daily Nation, Business Daily Africa, Daily Monitor, The Citizen, NMG Investor Briefing, Taifa Leo and Zuqka. The Daily Nation and the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, the Sunday Nation, celebrated their 50th anniversaries, branded by the Nation Media Group as 50 Golden Years, in 2010.
NMG owns 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 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 the capacity to print 86,000 newspapers per hour. It cost KSh2 billion (about US$20 million) and prints the dailies Daily Nation, Business Daily, Taifa Leo and the weekly The EastAfrican.

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