Bawss1:

I'd be surprised to find children today watching Nigerian TV when there are a dozen foreign, and I daresay, more entertaining stations out there. I grew up watching NTA and RSTV just like the OP described but when the better packaged foreign stations started becoming available me and my friends all made the switch. Those were the golden days. I think that with the way the Nigerian TV stations are run they will continue to have a hard time competing with the foreign ones.

babaowo:

This is computer's age folks!!!

mbulela:

i was discussing a similarly related issue on a different blog (not nigerian site). the fundamental problem is simple.
there is an inherent laziness pervading the tv industry at present. they will rather invest millions in tasteless and tacky reality programs than invest in educative and entertaining dramas and other types of programs.
the local ones would rather show endless reels of Nigerian music videos than invest or commission proper local programs for kids to watch during daytime.
when they are not showing silly music videos, they are showing those cheesy mexican and indian soaps.

pato405:

they have deliberately decided to ignore the younger ones and I hope this doesn't manifest it's toll of effect on their lives later on. popular Tv programs for the young ones as you have rightly mentioned such as tales by moonlight, kidi-vision 101, sesame street, e.t.c were didactic and had lots of moral lessons along with them. oh! thinking about how devoted I was to watching those programmes really make me feel nostalgic. things are rather changing very fast now, the IT age and younger ones are exposed to a lot of adult movies, little wonder intimate pervasiveness is on the increase. I just hope they see these media as a tool for proper education and setting kids along the right path. though parents are doing their best and teachers aren't doing badly (I suppose), the media has a LOT of role to play!

ojubi:

Shabe all ye re complaining. DSTV and other cables subscription is the problem here. If u do not subscribe every body 'll think u re selfish or old school. But if refuse to subscribe the kids 'll have no option than to make do with NTA, AIT etal. I still miss my dad black and white TV, i miss Gringory and Jebrudaya, i miss Jaguar, and many more.

pato405:

i agree completely with you. i saw this same DSTV  badly shape the lives of my uncle's children while i stayed with them over a period of 8years. they were so addicted to 4 particular channels - channel O, E-channel, MTV music & super sports. it's impact on the lives became so evident over time but the harm was already done. the youngest one (addicted to cartoon network) talked (even till date) like a pupet, always snivelling and whinning. the older ones belived life's all about wearing expensive branded designer clothes, pulling their trousers way below waist line -called it 'sagging' and wearing fat chains in the name of necklace -fat enough to chain a german shepherd or any notorious criminal - they called it 'bling-bling'. they could tell you off-hand the names of all players in all football clubs in the world; just name it, EPL, Laliga, Serie A, Argentine or Brazilian league and tell you how he was transferred and how much he earns but they can't tell you jack about their own state governor, neither can they confidently name 1 Nigerian minister.

i observed that when their friends came around, their discussions were also about what they watched on DSTV and the flamboyant lives of the celebrities they watched on DSTV. they all want to travel abroad and make BIG money like celebrities and that defined their dreams. little attention was paid to studies and I don't even want to go there because as I speak with you now, that is a NO-Go area- nothing to show for it o! not even from any of them.

it's hight time we all speak-up against the toll of effect the media has on children particularly over-time.

oyb:

haven't you heard of parental control?

pato405:

parental control indeed. how many parents use it?

oyb:

perhaps you should aslo drive without seat belts

on the one hand you complain about what is on dstv, on the other when reminded that dstv comes with the option for parental control, you blather about how many parents use it

what sort of defeatist argument is that?

pato405:

nitwit, dstv has suddenly turned to a car. as if we r not all aware of the tug of war between drivers n traffic officials b4 compliance with using seat belt policy. even till date, many still don't use it. perhaps u woke from d wrong side of the bed and looking for someone to bandy words with. it's too early sha. look else-where. FYI, many parents dont use it and even when dey do, som stubborn kids have a way of decoding it.