BOJ TV celebrates a year

Garfield Myers

Thursday, February 16, 2012

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - SANTA Cruz-based cable station BOJ TV (Best of Jamaica Television) is celebrating its first anniversary with a special week of activities, February 19-24.

A subsidiary of the public relations, marketing and production company, Super K Studios, BOJ TV is boasting of a reach to an audience of one million "via the cable network and the internet on www.bojtv.com".

Carla Morris, station manager at BOJ TV told journalists last Thursday that "we have been able to complete Jamaica's first major rural production centre right here in St Elizabeth, where at least eight local shows are produced on a weekly basis" showcasing local talent and distributed "via modern media technologies to the world..."

She claimed that the greatest achievement to date has been the creation of 50 new jobs over the past year "in the areas of studio technicians, script writing, videography, photography, graphic designing, website designing, TV hosts, producers, editors etc".

Morris urged the Jamaican Government "to put more resources and research in this area because if as a relatively new company we were able to create 50 new jobs, just imagine the amount of jobs that this sector — if given priority — will be able to generate."

She said Super K Studios intended to be part of an effort to lobby the "relevant authorities into putting more research and resources in the field of entertainment, sports, culture, and tourism and the ultimate promotion of brand Jamaica".

Data and findings related to the experience of Super K Studios would be presented to the junior minister for Tourism and Entertainment, Damion Crawford, when he visits during the week of activities, Morris said.

The anniversary week will include a church service at the St Matthews Anglican Church in Santa Cruz on February 19; outreach projects at a number of schools in St Elizabeth on February 21: Six-a-side football and other recreational activities at Coconut Fun Garden on February 22; a special ceremony attended by Crawford at Super K Studios in Santa Cruz on February 24; and the elimination of Miss Jamaica World Middlesex also on that day, at the same location.