SECTOR 2 The media landscape, including new media, is characterised by diversity, independence and sustainability. 2.1 A wide range of sources of information (print, broadcasting, Internet) is available and affordable to citizens. Print There is quite a range of print media in the country. Government-owned newspapers are the dailies Daily Graphic and The Ghanaian Times as well as the weeklies The Mirror and Weekly Spectator. Daily Graphic and The Mirror are part of the stable of The Graphic Communications Group which also publishes the weeklies Graphic Sports and Junior Graphic as well as the bi-monthly Graphic Advertiser. Distribution figures are not available as they are treated as “business secrets”. Privately owned daily papers are The Dispatch, Accra Daily Mail, The Ghanaian Chronicle and The Daily Guide. There is a plethora of private weeklies, bi-weeklies and tri-weeklies (according to one list 30 titles) with print-runs between 200 and 1000. Most of these newspapers are mainly interested in disseminating certain ideological perspectives rather than in running a business. They usually sell few copies because their messages are included in press reviews broadcast by most radio stations every morning between 7h30 and 10h00. Newspapers cost between 1.50 and 3.00 Ghanaian cedis (US$ 1.00 and 2.001), around half of the daily wage of 3.00 to 5.00 cedis for formal workers. This makes print media practically unaffordable for ordinary people. Broadcasting Radio reaches more than 90 per cent and television 82 per cent of the country. The state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) runs two national radio stations (Radio 1 and Radio 2) as well as one station in each of the nine regions. More than 200 non-state radio stations (around 180 commercial and 20 community-owned) have been licensed all over the country, with between 180 and 1 www.xe.com 24/8/2011 22 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER GHANA 2011