98% of Uganda's televisions & radio stations don't pay their employees.

Journalist Arnold Musamali:- 

It has become a habit and norm in uganda for media houses failing to pay its journalists, presenters and supporting staff.

With over 309 licensed radio stations, numerous public and private TV stations, and rapid growth in internet accessibility and usage, the media landscape in Uganda is dynamic, diverse, and rapidly evolving but unfortunately paying employees is a tag of war.

But after conducting enough research and investigations, i will put the blame on regulators who issue license  to investors. 

Things can only get better when Media industry gets a regulator who doesn't stop at testing, verifying the strength and type of a transmitter a broadcaster is installing, but should also looks at regulating the industry wholesomely, without prejudice, interests and double standards.

The problem of media owners should be blamed on the regulators who looks at the operational abilities of the potential investors.

Cries of  several media house failing to pay salaries will never stop in the sector, Once someone puts together wood and other material into a beautiful looking structure,  UCC will pass that as a professional broadcast Studio, assemble a few second hand machinery, with soon-expiring technological capacities and software, the regulator will pass you. 

If you have a small political weight with threats of influence, you're sure to have your way through. Now in that kind of situation, the regulator will never even have the guts to inquire about the long term abilities of the investor to run the entity, since there's not a legal minimal standard established that would guide them.

You will always find professional staff in such situation, treated like casuals in a soap factory and that ia uganda media houses for you currently.