SECTOR 2 Furthermore, the Communication Act also deals with issues regarding crossownership under Section 85 (8), stating that: When considering an application for the issue of a broadcasting licence the Authority must have regard to (c) the desirability or otherwise of allowing any person or association of persons, to have control of or a substantial interest in: (i) more than one broadcasting service; (ii) more than one radio station and one television station and one registered newspaper with a common coverage and distribution area or significantly overlapping coverage and distribution areas. In Namibia, there are no major media monopolies, but media concentration does exist. NMH, for example, owns three daily newspapers – the Namibian Sun, Die Republikein and the Algemeine Zeitung, as well as some weeklies and a few supplements often published across their other papers. Due to the high costs of printing, some of the larger papers have resorted to investing in their own printing presses. NMH owns Newsprint Namibia, which prints all the stable’s newspapers, as well as the New Era. The Namibia Media Trust (NMT), which publishes The Namibian, also owns Wordpress, which prints The Namibian, its various supplements, some weekly papers such as The Patriot and a number of newsletters and advertising publications. Max Hamata, the former editor of Informanté and the current owner and editor of Confidenté newspaper, also owns Max Media Printers. In June 2018, Newsprint Namibia took New Era Publication Corporation (NEPC) to court when it started printing New Era and Kundana with Max Media Printers. Newsprint Namibia claimed that they had been awarded the tender to print these publications. Max Media Printers contested this claim. The court ruled in favour of Newsprint Namibia and ordered NEPC to continue printing with Newsprint until the tender had been correctly re-advertised and set procedures followed. With regards to broadcasting, there is also some concentration. For example, JACC FM (previously Kudu Radio) and Radiowave have the same owners. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: Score of previous years: 28 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER NAMIBIA 2018 ✓✓✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓✓✓ ✓ ✓✓ 3.3 2005: 2.3; 2007: 2.1; 2009: 2.7; 2011: 3.6; 2015: 2.6