Presentation by: Sushil Sanghvi

AFRICA: THE GROWTH CONTINENT

“A KEY BUSINESS DESTINATION FOR ALL INTERNATIONAL & EMERGING MARKET PLAYERS”

SECTOR PANEL: MEDIA, SPORTS AND TOURISM

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African Media Landscape

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Media Conglomerates
• East Africa
• Nation Media Group
– Newspapers (Daily and Weekly) – The Daily Nation; Business Daily; Tafia Leo;
East African
– TV – NTV (Kenya); NTV (Uganda)
– Radio – KFM; QFM; EasyFM

• IPP Media
– Newspapers – The Guardian Publications (publishes 10 Newspapers)
– Television – ITV; East Africa TV
– Radio – Radio One; SkyFM; East Africa Radio
– News Agency and Online Services

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Media Conglomerates (Contd.)
• West Africa
• Global Media Alliance
– Newspaper –Weekend World
– Radio – HappyFM, YFM, AnigyeFM
– TV – e.tv Ghana
– Cinemas – Silverbird Ghana & Kenya (23 Screens)
– Events & PR

• Silverbird Entertainment
– Radio – RhythmFM
– TV – Silverbird TV
– Cinemas – Silverbird Nigeria; Ghana; Kenya (40+ Screens)
– Events

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Other African Media Houses
• Multimedia Group (Ghana)
– Radio – Six Radio Stations
– TV – MultiTV (DTT) – 20 Channels
• Africa Media Group (Nigeria)
– Abuja Yellow Pages
– African Community Pages
– Port Harcourt Yellow Pages
– Eastern Yellow Pages
– African News Digest
– Green Sheet
• El Khabar (Algeria)
– El Khabar is, with an average of 500,000 copies a day, the
most widely circulated paper on the African continent.

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Other African Media Houses (Contd.)
• Democratic Media Holdings (Namibia)
– Newspapers – Republikein; Allgemeine Zeitung;
Namibia Sun
– Radio – Radio 99
– Printing Press – Newsprint Namibia
• Spectrum Group (Cameroon)
– TV – STV1; STV2
• MuviTV Group (Zambia)
– TV Stations – MuviTV; Africa Unite TV
• Tibiyo Taka Ngwane – Tibiyo (Swaziland)
– Newspaper – Swazi Observer
– Printing Press – Jubilee Printing

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Opportunities
• Regulatory reform and the enabling environment
– Legislative level
– Implementation level

• Professionalisation
– insufficient or poor-quality training institutions;
– rapid expansion of media outlets, that has further strained resources;
– low salaries and status, with the resulting prevalence of “brown envelope”
(bribery-based) journalism; and,
– skills exodus (eg, poaching of staff to better-paid UN, donor or NGO projects)

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Opportunities (Contd.)
• Equipping the sector
– Direct funding of new equipment
– Support for upgrading existing equipment
– ICT skills training for staff
– Creating technical sharing mechanisms for media organisations
– Sourcing opportunities for joint purchasing of equipment

• Improving financial sustainability

– better use of existing soft loan funds
– supporting projects coming to market
– reducing costs

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Opportunities (Contd.)
• Programming and local content
– Support for the development of a local
production skills base,
– content focused on social and development issues

• Lack of audience Research and Monitoring.

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Key Development Areas
• Media Legislation and the Regulatory Environment
– Media development activities addressing regulatory and
legislative issues can be clustered into four categories
• Advocacy
• Establishment of regulatory bodies
• Legislative reform
• Licensing

• Technology and equipment

– ICT Usage in Media
– Improving access to Finance
• Tailoring finance, and bridging the finance gap
• Improve utilisation of existing finance schemes
• Facilitate the funding of equipment
• Improving efficiency and cutting costs

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Key Development Areas (Contd.)
• Professionalisation
• The main professional development initiatives have been grouped
under four main headings:
– professional standards and journalism skills;
– issue-specific journalism;
– media management; and,
– technical skills.

• Supporting Local Content Production

– Community Media
– State Media
– Private Media

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Key Development Areas (Contd.)
• Media Monitoring
– Major Challenges: Big investment.

• Principles, Identity and Organisation

– A Pan-African Approach
• Creating Space for Advocacy
• Shared Learning
• Joint Purchasing Power
• Integrated Funding

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