After weeks of preparation the team at 1HeartTV on OHTV SKY Channel 199 last night pulled off its first
business orientated show bringing together a sample of some of the brightest minds in the UK Caribbean business community.
“Inspired By The Caribbean. Loved By The World”, 1HEART TV is a brand new multi-platform, multi-genre channel dedicated to providing the best of Caribbean inspired content, culture and news from around the world. You can find out more about the channel here: 1hearttv.com/
Margaret and Nathaniel. Photo courtesy CaribDirect.com
The show is produced by creative director / director of programming Patrick Campbell, the man who is credited for the production of the highly acclaimed film, The Mirror Boy a 2011 Nigerian fantasy adventure drama film written and directed by Obi Emelonye and starring Genevieve Nnaji, Osita Iheme and Edward Kagutuzi. The film which was shot in England and the Gambia, received 3 nominations at the 2011 Africa Movie Academy Awards
With the objective of the show being to highlight the accomplishments of Caribbean entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom with some reference to what obtains in the Caribbean, careful attention was placed on unearthing real or perceived disparities in pay, status, and opportunities between the genders.
Special guests included BBC 1 The Apprentice 2014 Runner Up and hosiery entrepreneur Bianca Miller;
New host for 1HeartTV show, Gemma Feare. Photo courtesy www.jamaicaobserver.com
Chair of ActionAid UK Margaret Casely-Hayford; Best selling author of “Entrepreneur to Ultrapreneur”, professional speaker, business coach and serial entrepreneur, Julian Hall; social entrepreneur who founded at the age of 25, the nonprofit organization, The Safety Box, which uses grassroots methods to interrupt violent behaviour, build entrepreneurship and foster achievement in young people using alternative curriculum in British schools, Nathaniel Peat; and founder / chief executive officer of CaribDirect Multi-Media a company that focuses on economically empowering Caribbean people in the diaspora through trade and investment focused events and media, David F. Roberts.
Former presenter Leah Charles King. Photo courtesy leahcharlesking.com
The show was presented by former Miss Jamaica UK 2013 Gemma Feare who recently took over the reins from former presenter, the Award-winning TV/RadioPresenter | Producer | Activist | Mentor | Regular on ITV, Leah Charles King.
Gemma skillfully coordinated what appeared to be a seamless string of live interviews without a hitch, demonstrating her capacity to deliver fast paced and intricate television programming with relative ease and professionalism. She was not phased in the slightest by the egos and testosterone that consumed the studio showing clearly who was in charge.
The guests all did a fantastic job in bringing to bear their individual accounts of what being an entrepreneur is like and for the female guests (Bianca and Margaret) what they saw as the main challenges of being a woman in a predominantly male dominated ‘lifestyle’, business.
Photo courtesy CaribDirect.com
For details of the show tune in to SKY Channel 199 tomorrow Thursday 1st October 2015 at 7.30pm. 1HeartTV in clearly on the path for great things and with the community’s support can set the standard for Caribbean programming in the United Kingdom, so be sure to tune in every Tuesday evening with your family and friends and tweet to the unfortunates unable to watch. Together we can keep this show on air for our ultimate benefit.
