SECTOR 2 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: ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓ 2.6 2006: 1.6; 2008: 2.4; 2010: 1.7; 2012: 2.7; 2015: 2.8 2.6 Government promotes a diverse media landscape with economically sustainable and independent media outlets Tanzania has a diverse media landscape with numerous outlets catering to different audience segments. However, panellists said, that this was not the result of government policy. On the contrary, an arsenal of legal regulatory tools has been used to stifle the emergence of economically sustainable and independent media. Licence fees for all media, for example, are high and prohibitive. Media inputs are not tax-exempt and even community radios have to pay high licence fees annually. 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: ✓✓✓✓✓ ✓ ✓✓✓✓ ✓✓ 2.5 2006: n/a; 2008: n/a; 2010: 1.8 ; 2012: 1.3; 2015: 2.8 2.7 All media fairly represent the voices of all gender 30 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER TANZANIA 2019