{"id":6935,"date":"2017-06-27T07:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T04:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2017-06-27T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:45:03","slug":"cant-compete-students-anymore-larry-madowo-highlights-reason-quit-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/cant-compete-students-anymore-larry-madowo-highlights-reason-quit-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI can\u2019t compete with my students anymore\u201d Larry Madowo highlights reason why he quit the Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday June 30th will be Larry Madowo\u2019s last show on The Trend. The NTV anchor announced his departure four days ago.<\/p>\n

Larry Madowo took a swipe at other TV stations that copied the Trend, he said replication of the Trend was among the things that compelled him to quit and come up with something better.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at Friday night television in Kenya now, everybody is trying to do what I have done. Yes I said it, everybody is trying to do what Larry Madowo has done\u2026they are copying the Trend, everybody and every channel. I think I can\u2019t compete with my students anymore, people are trying to be me so it\u2019s time for me to move on. That\u2019s the simple reason,\u201d Larry Madowo ranted.<\/p>\n

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Eric Njoka hosted Sharon Mundia and social media bigwig Xtian Dela when K24’s ‘Talk Central’ debuted in 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes in June 2015, Larry expressed his frustrations with K24 after the station came up with their own versions of the Trend dubbed \u2018Talk Central\u2019.<\/p>\n

On his Daily Nation FrontRow column titled \u2018Monkey see, monkey do: Kenyan copycats killed creative industry\u2019, Larry put K24 on the spot for openly copying the Trend.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s perhaps the launch of Citizen TV\u2019s version of the Trend that hammered the final nail in Larry Madowo\u2019s coffin. Citizen TV\u2019s 10 Over 10 did not only copy the Trend but also runs on the same time slot with the Trend, giving the NTV show direct competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good to be able to leave something, especially something that you love and going to do something else\u2026and for me am grateful that I had this chance to be a part of something that is great, I have worked with the best team in television\u2026 they are young talented guys and it has been a privilege and an honor to present their work because truly these guys that you\u2019ve never met they are credit to this profession, they are truly the best that you could ever find in this business. And that\u2019s why the work that we do here is copied by everyone else. I have said this before, Kenya\u2019s TV idea of innovation is monkey see monkey do, we do something successful everybody else tries to do it. So am done trying to give people ideas, am gonna try maybe on different night of television maybe do something different so other people can copy it,\u201d Larry Madowo said on The Trend on Friday June 23rd.<\/p>\n

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Citizen TV’s 10 Over 10 hosted by Willis Raburu and Joey Muthengi copied the Trend’s same central idea and also runs on the same time slot with the Trend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Apart from other Kenyan TV stations copying the Trend, Larry Madowo also cited his frequent trips abroad as the reason why he opted to quit the Trend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have watched the show you have noticed that I have been away a lot. Am travelling more and more now and I have felt that I wasn\u2019t giving the show 100%. So it was time to step away so somebody else could have that chance, right? I think that\u2019s great and whoever it is that\u2019s going to take over the show I can assure you there gonna be great, they will be tremendous,\u201d said Larry Madowo.<\/p>\n

Watch Larry explain why he left the Trend in the video below:<\/p>\n