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: 3.1; 2008: 2.3; 2010: 3.2; 2012: 3.3; 2015: 3.9 2.10 Private broadcasters deliver a minimum of quality public interest programmes Private broadcasters are required by law to ‘promote public awareness in various issues of national interest’ and ‘to broadcast and publish news or issues on national importance as the government may direct.’20 Panellists said private broadcasters try to adhere to these requirements but are also constrained by the need to reach broad audiences to produce public interest programmes. However, there appears to be differences between broadcasters and the government on what public interest means. For example, panellists stated that broadcasters were fined for reporting on allegations of irregularities during the 26 November 2017 ward by-elections.21 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: ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓ 3.2 2006: n/a; 2008: n/a; 2010: n/a ; 2012: n/a; 2015: 3.1 20 Media Services Act, Section 7.2. 21 The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority fined five television stations Tsh60 million ($27,000) for “offensive and unethical” broadcasting. The stations aired a Legal Human Rights Centre (LHRC) evaluation of November 26, 2017 ward by-election, which the government found offensive, unethical and unlawful. Retrieved at https://www.africanews. com/2018/01/03/tanzania-fines-tv-stations-for-airing-human-rights-report// 33 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER TANZANIA 2019