Assessing Sexual Television (TV) and Radio Programming That Nairobi Adolescents Watch and Listen To

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the most popular sexual radio and TV programming amongst Nairobi City County public secondary school students. It examined these issues amongst 546, 13-20 year old respondents. This study was accomplished via quantitative and qualitative method. Five hundred and forty six questionnaires were administered and five focus group discussions conducted in five clusters of secondary schools in Nairobi City County. The study had two objectives: One, to find out the most popular radio and TV programs amongst Nairobi adolescents and Two, to find out which radio and TV programs have the highest sexual content according to Nairobi adolescents. The study found out that local TV programming; especially music and comedy was most popular with Nairobi adolescents when compared to radio programming and that local TV programs were more popular than foreign programs. Secondly, Kenya radio programs popular with adolescents were mostly the morning, afternoon and evening music and talk shows and were high in sexual content. The study concluded that breakfast and evening talk and afternoon music shows were the programs most popular with Nairobi adolescents. TV programs were more popular with Nairobi adolescents compared to radio programs. Also the study concludes that the few radio programs adolescents in Nairobi listen to are high in sexual content and recommended that it was important for parents and teachers to be more concerned and involved in the kind of TV and radio programs teenagers consumed while on holidays and at schools respectively if they were to give them proper guidance and tutelage in the kind of programming that will help them develop positively.