Chad communication network limits most of the rural population from accessing information. Jointly, all newspapers do not reach 30 000 copies per week. One of the major challenges remains the lack of an effective system of distribution and overlap. GRADES Individual grades: 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2 Average: 1,5 2.4. Legislation for the audio-visual media was adopted and applied and forecasts a favourable environment to public, commercial and community programmes ANALYSIS: Legislation exists but some dispositions do not favour its effectiveness. In particular the high licence fees to radio and television stations while media aid established since 1994 was given only twice and partially. Because of that, media prefer indirect aid and invoke the observance of the Florence Convention and the Nairobi Protocol ratified by most African states and recommend a reduction of tax applied to the goods and services in the production of intellectual and cultural products including the media. This could have helped in the reduction of production costs for newspapers due to the reduction tax reduction on the consumables. GRADES Individual grades : 2,4,3,4,5,4,4,4,4,5 Average: 3,9 The African Media Barometer (AMB) - Chad 2007 51