SECTOR 3

3.3
The body regulates broadcasting services and
licences in the public interest and ensures fairness and a
diversity of views broadly representing society at large.
“With
community
and public
media, the
NBB is dead in
the water.”

The NBB has no regulations or policies, and no guiding principles
with regard to ensuring fairness or a diversity of views.
Its only real activity is to license commercial broadcasters, which
it does well.
“With community and public media, the NBB is dead in the
water. The state media is state media, not public media. They
(staff ) are public servants and not journalists. The NBB has no
power over them.”
Internet broadcasters also fall beyond the scope of the NBB.

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:

1.9 (2005 = 1.3; 2007 = 2.1; 2009 = 1.8)

3.4
The state/public broadcaster is accountable to
the public through a board representative of society
at large and selected in an independent, open and
transparent manner.
There is no board for Botswana Television (BTV) or Radio Botswana 1 and 2, as
they are run as government departments, within the Office of the President, with
staff hired by the Directorate of Public Service Management, as is the case with
all government employees. Therefore, the state broadcaster is not accountable to
the public at all.

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