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Broadcasting Policy in Botswana: The Case of Botswana Television

Broadcasting Policy in Botswana: The Case of Botswana Television
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Author(s): Seamogano Mosanako (University of Botswana, Botswana)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 14
Source title: Impacts of the Media on African Socio-Economic Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Okorie Nelson (Covenant University, Nigeria), Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)and Abiodun Salawu (North-West University, South Africa)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1859-4.ch014

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Abstract

The media has been considered an essential tool in propelling social change. Nonetheless, in Botswana, while the media is expected to play a role in the country's development, there exists a broadcasting policy vacuum in that there is no formal media policy to guide the operations of the media. A national television service, Botswana Television (Btv), is used as a case study in this chapter to demonstrate that the lack of media policy in Botswana and possibly other developing countries is generally responsible for poor performance of the broadcast media regarding its role in national development. Such poor performance of the media is reflected by domination of government originated content, domination of foreign content on local television, state control of the media as well as increasing pressure on the media to be more accessible to opposition political parties.

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