SECTOR 3 Panellists said discussions about the financial state of government-funded broadcasting services was difficult because the processes are opaque. Some alleged that corruption was rife and that audits were poorly conducted across all state-funded broadcasters. 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: ✓✓✓ ✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓✓ 1.3 2008: n/a; 2011: 1.9; 2015: 1.6 3.7 The state/public broadcaster offers diverse programming and formats that cater for all interests, including local content and quality public interest programmes With more than 100 TV stations across the country, the NTA is considered the largest television network in Nigeria. It has TV stations in each of the 36 states and offers the widest diversity in content and reach. ‘NTA stations serve local interest programmes, including programmes in local languages,’ said one panellist. With an almost similar deployment, the FRCN (also Radio Nigeria) with its scores of state and zonal stations is the leading radio broadcaster in the country with the widest reach. Its FM and SW spectrum band stations are highly geographically focused, delivering local content to a range of different geopolitical and sociocultural interests. Along with the federal services, states run broadcasting corporations intended to serve state and local interests. A panellist said: The reach of government-funded broadcasting was unmatched by content that served the interests of the different publics they intended to serve. Across the board, politics and propaganda serving the interest of federal and state politicians dominate the content of these services. A panellist said: Everything that you would expect a public broadcaster to focus on is lacking. Development and human rights issues such as female genital 42 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER NIGERIA 2019