SECTOR 2 2.5 Adequate competition legislation/regulation seeks to prevent media concentration and monopolies. The broadcasting regulator, the National Communication Authority (NCA), will issue only one radio or television licence per company. But there are ways in which this limitation is circumvented. Companies buy existing radio stations with licences. Multimedia Group Limited, for example, runs seven radio stations, among them Joy FM, and Multi TV. Other radio companies have affiliate stations throughout the country. The state-owned Graphic Communications Group is planning to also go into the radio and television business. Such conglomerates could be used to consistently transmit a certain ideological stance to a wide audience, thus controlling the minds of millions of people. The planned new broadcasting legislation is expected to address this. It is feared though that unreasonably tight legislation on media concentration could stifle entrepreneurship in the sector. 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: 2.9 (2008: 2.5; 2006: 2.0) 2.6 Government promotes a diverse media landscape with economically viable and independent media outlets. There is no active promotion by government of a diverse media landscape in Ghana, apart from the fact that certain broadcasting equipment and television transmitters are exempted from import duty. In general, however, it is regarded as “dangerous” for the government to provide any form of economic support for media because this could lead to a degree of dependence on the state. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER GHANA 2011 27