SECTOR 2 Some panellists felt that most private print media are owned by white Namibians and, as a result, are “not really addressing issues that the majority of the population is concerned with”. For example, The Namibian recently had a front-page article on the SADC Tribunal while an article on malnutrition appeared on page 5. A panellist opined that: “Many of our media owners did not experience the brutalities of the apartheid regime, or the brutalities of the current regime, and that affects how they report”. Radio Medium Radio Stations State NBC !Ha NBC Afrikaans NBC German NBC Damara/Nama NBC National Service NBC Oshiwambo NBC Otjiherero NBC Rukavango NBC Tirelo ya Setswana NBC Lozi Commercial Radio 99 Radio Cosmos Radio Energy Fresh FM Radio Kudu Omulunga Radio West Coast FM Community Base FM Channel 7 E-FM (formerly Radio Ecclesia) Karas Community Radio Live FM Radio France International (RFI) UNAM Radio Radio is more affordable, but not all the NBC’s various language services transmit to all parts of the country. “Some people – in particular minority language speakers in a particular area – are unable to listen to radio because the money is not there to put all ten (NBC) language services on the transmitter in every place.” The NBC’s television transmitters cover less than 70 percent of the country, while the prohibitive cost of a license fee also limits its accessibility, along with the cost of a television set and the lack of electricity in many rural areas. The television license fee is N$204 per TV set per annum for a household/private person, and N$60 per TV set per annum for a pensioner/war veteran/disabled person. Businesses pay N$220 per annum and furniture retailers/dealers/TV repair companies and companies hiring out TV sets pay N$440 per annum per demonstration set. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER NAMIBIA 2011 29