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COVID-19 CRISIS: Broadcasters seek middle ground with ICT Ministry over allocation of Covid-19 cash to media houses

CONRAD AHABWE | PML Daily Senior Correspondent by CONRAD AHABWE | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
May 12, 2020
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Kin Kariisa, CEO, Next Media Services and Chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters (PHOTO/File).

KAMPALA – Broadcasters have questioned the criteria used by the Ministry of ICT to allocate the Shs5 billion meant for disseminating Covid-19 messages to different media houses in the country.

Under their umbrella body, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the broadcasters say while they had agreed with the Ministry of ICT on a media plan for the allocation of the money, the list later issued by the ministry left out some of their members.

In a May 12 letter to all members, NAB Administrative Secretary Natasha Musiimenta said this prompted them to hold meeting with the ministry on 29th April, 2020.

“In it, we pointed out omissions of some member media houses during allocations, we asked for clarity on the amounts to be split using the media plan we proposed, and also asked about the criteria (to be) used in allocations. We also took note that agency fees were much higher than we had proposed, and asked for a halt in the distribution until all was cleared out,” Musiimenta said.

In their proposal to the Ministry, she said they suggested that registered 306 radio stations take 50% of this budget, 39 registered TV stations (including UBC) 36%, and the 30 registered online portals 5%.

“We also had print taking 5%, production of advertising material 4% and 5% as agency and monitoring fees,” Musiimenta added.

For radio, Tier 1, which has 39 radio stations was to take 40%;
Tier 2, which has 26 radio stations- 20%, Tier 3, which has 241 stations, was supposed to take 40%, constituting total of 306 radio stations.

For TV, Tier 1, which has five stations, was to take 70% of the money, while Tier 2, which has 10 stations was to take 15%.
The others were as follows;
Tier 3 – 15% 24 stations
Total – 36% 39 stations

ONLINE MEDIA
Tier 1 – 70% 17 portals
Tier 2 – 30% 13 portals
Total – 5% 30 portals

PRINT
Tier 1 – 80% 3 papers
Tier 2 – 20% 4 papers
Total – 5% 7 papers

PRODUCTION
Radio & TV 1
Total 4% 1

AGENCY & MONITORING FEES
Radio – 2.5% 306 stations
Television – 2.5% 39 stations
Total – 5% 345 stations

Despite this proposal, she said that the Ministry of ICT did not remove the anomaly in the allocation of the money to the media houses.

“On 5th May, 2020, and again on 8th May, 2020, we wrote to the Ministry of ICT yet again, this time inquiring on why multiple media houses had either been missed out, or allocated monies which were neither part of our proposed plan, or had received a booking window which did not tally with what we had discussed with the ministry team. We also asked for a clear payment plan. We are yet to receive a reply from the ministry regarding these queries,” she said.

Musiimenta said given the disparity in the overall business allocated, with different quarters citing different figures, NAB shall continue to push for clarity as well as a resolution of these matters, “because we believe strongly in the role we are playing.”

“We maintain our resolve to be all-inclusive to the extent guided by Government, and even more, transparent to our members. Therefore, those who may not have yet been reached out to by QG Saacthi & Saatchi for any booking, or those with inquiries, please reach me via WhatsApp using the contact indicated below. I shall aggregate the information for further processing.”

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