The entire Sanyu FM radio crew has been shown exit after absconding from duty for two days.
Sanyu FM owner Sudhir Ruparelia has said that he wants “new blood” at Sanyu FM after the entire staff went against their contracts which bars them from striking, but went ahead laid down their tools.
Today, fliers went around social media that Sanyu FM had hired Patrick Idringi aka Salvador to run its breakfast show. Salvador a popular comedian, was
beaming literally with a smile on the poster announcing the man from Embokolo as replacing Fat Boy a controversial radio presenter who had been at Sanyu FM for about 15 years.
Salvador will Thursday morning find an empty station, and he is like the first recruit of the new Sanyu FM which has been cleared of its past baggage.
Watchdog has since established what led to the sacking of staff at Sanyu.
While many employees across have joined their employers to accept salary cuts to manage budgets as Covid-19 has washed away sizeable revenue from media companies, Sanyu FM staff were asked to take a 25% salary cut.
However, the entire staff refused to accept the offer, instead, decided to lay down their tools for the last three days.
The strike came at the back of Sanyu FM management’s failure to meet its annual target.
According to inside sources, the financial year target was only achieved by 50%, figures the shareholders of Sanyu were already uncomfortable with. The uncalled for strike gave Sudhir an opportunity to offload the team, and re-start on the station all over again.
“They achieved only 50 percent of revenue of the budget. We asked 25 percent salary cuts, so (they -ed) decided to go on strike contrary to their contract thus terminating it them selves. Now time for new blood.” Sudhir said.
