Kenya's Amazingly Exciting Running Contests TV Show

Kenya's Amazingly Exciting Running Contests TV Show

How the Sport of Running Came to Rule the Teams Sports World in East Africa, and The Woman Who Helped Set Up A Hugely Popular Sport and TV Show in East Africa

ByDr Joseph Oakwood

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Mrs Jewutu Kiptenga is going to put one quarter of her lottery winnings into the idea of a Kenyan "Golden Gauntlet Premier League of Running". She is keeping the rest for her house, her treatments and for her and her supportive family to live on, comfortably, for the rest of their lives. She will never need to work again, and will be able to devote herself fully to her family and to this new idea, fast becoming a project of running races that she has come up with. She wants the TV-viewing public to fall in love with this new idea too. She wants it to be all about the teams, the provinces, the youngsters, the spirit of friendship and not just about the very fastest one person who is soon to win an Olympic medal, like all the dreadful events we have seen on TV so far. By the first get-together of event management-level organisers on the 14th December 2024 Jewutu Kiptenga has assembled a board of directors, made up of her, six other main sponsors, investors, and benefactors, three officials from the Kenyan National Athletics Association and two representatives of the Kenyan national TV company. These twelve very important people get together to discuss how it will be launched, run, governed, structured, etc. As she brings in by far the biggest investment, Jewutu Kiptenga is allowed to have a double vote and the tie-breaking vote too, in the event of a 6-6 verdict. An agreement is reached. It is comprehensive, ambitious, far-reaching and fast-moving. The best thing about it is that it comes with a guaranteed weekly slot on Channel 2 on Kenyan national TV at 8 PM every Saturday, which will initially be known as the running show. A delighted Jewutu Kiptenga and all the other members of the board of directors line up to give press conferences that also make it, in an abridged version, into the Kenyan evening TV news that day. The whole country starts talking about how it will work, whether it can work, whether they will watch and how they think it will go. The TV show launches as a weekly special on Kenya TV channel 2, with the same time slot from 8 pm to 9 pm to be devoted to her for the first three weeks and then the 4 pm to 5 pm time slot on this same channel will be devoted to Jewutu Kiptenga's project alone for at least 6 months, as long as the ratings are at least 23.8% of their most-viewed news or soaps show on average. The first of a hopefully infinitely many weekly TV show called The Running Show and soon to be renamed The Golden Gauntlet Premier League.

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Publication Date
Jul 3, 2024
Language
English
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Sports
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All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Dr Joseph Oakwood

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