Malawi deliberately, as it seems, exclude statements from opposition parties. The vast majority of stories covered are official statements from the President downwards (hierarchical news). If there is the odd item on an event organised by an opposition party it is always the last one in the bulletin. SCORES: Individual scores: 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 1 Average score: 2.1 3.12 The public broadcaster offers as much diverse and creative local content as economically achievable. ANALYSIS: MBC’s radio programming consists almost entirely of local content and tries to be creative. TVM’s output is predominantly feed from foreign services such as BBC or VoA. It does try, however, to produce approximately three hours of local content per day which is not bad given the economic circumstances. SCORES: Individual scores: 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 1 Average score: 3.2 OVERALL SCORE FOR SECTOR 3: 2.3 28 African Media Barometer - Malawi 2006