Making the announcement Jones Communications Network Chairman and CEO Wendall Jones said the company is undergoing a transformation.
“This transformation is no accident,” he said at the breakfast meeting at the British Colonial Hilton Resort. “It is a part of a vision of a total Media House in which the craft of journalism is practiced in a diversified media company. We wish to positively impact what people read, what they hear and now what they see.”
He explained that the transformation that is taking place in Jones Communications stems from its response to the dictates, the rhythm and the tastes in the marketplace.
“Today, we live in a digital era, a time when satellite transmission has changed the manner in which mankind lives around the world. As we act to keep abreast of the changing times, it was incumbent on our organization to give Bahamians what we know they want. This want is quality television programming which meets the viewing needs of the Bahamian society,” said Mr. Jones.
He vowed to give the public the best product which is on par with international standards.
“We wish for you now to spread the word that you have discovered JCN, a media entity that is not hell bent, but heaven bent on giving you the best television facility to be operated by Bahamians,” he said.
Jones Communications International started with the Bahama Journal as a weekly newspaper in September 1987 and since then has grown by leaps and bounds to include, Love 97 radio and a publishing house.
The Journal is now one of the most sought after dailies and the company’s website is listed as the number three search engine for The Bahamas behind the Ministry of Tourism and Atlantis.
According to JCN, its television network will secure its place in the history of journalism as a unique source of news, insight and skilled verbal jousting. It is designed to seek to make complex issues clear, ideas will count for more than mere clatter of conflict and perspectives will be brought to the compressed world of television news.
At least three major newscasts will be presented by a trained cadre of skilled presenters between late afternoon and late night.
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