SECTOR 2 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: 1.5 (2008 = 1.3) 2.5 Adequate competition legislation/regulation seeks to prevent media concentration and monopolies Article 43 of Cameroon’s 1990 law on Social Communication bars an individual from owning more than one audiovisual license. It is also illegal to operate a radio or TV station simultaneously be the publisher of a newspaper. A case in point that is often cited by many Cameroonians as an example of covert cross ownership is that off Equinoxe TV, Radio Equinoxe, and La Nouvelle Expression newspaper whose owner is known to many people but who is alleged to have registered the three outfits under the names of his relatives. The owner of Spectrum Television operates two channels, STV1 and STV2, and panellists were unsure whether that constituted two separate media organs requiring more than one license. 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: 82 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER CAMEROON 2011 4.5 (2008 = 2.3)