SECTOR 2

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:

2.4 (2010 = 1.5; 2008 = 1.9; 2006 = 1.6)

2.5 Adequate competition legislation/regulation seeks
to prevent media concentration and monopolies.
There is no legislation in Tanzania preventing concentration of media companies
in one hand and there are definite cases of media monopolies/multiple media
ownership whereby a one media house owns a variety of newspapers as well as
broadcast companies. These include the private companies, IPP Media (three radio
and three TV stations and nine newspapers) and the New Habari Corporation
(four newspapers), while the state runs two dailies and two Sunday newspapers,
radio and television stations.
There is a Fair Competition Act (2003) but it does not seek to limit such
concentration of ownership and rather aims to ensure fair competition among
players. Some panellists felt that one company having multiple media interests
was not considered a monopoly, but rather as how businesses operate in a free
market with various product lines. Others said that such ownership could lead to
the propagation of one opinion across various media.
Panellists confirmed that the Information and Broadcasting Policy of 2003 was
still being reviewed by government and consideration is being given to restricting
cross-ownership of media, such that owners of more than two television stations,
for example, would have to list one on the stock exchange for public ownership.

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