Interim Report No. 3: Media And Elections In Sudan
Media Monitoring activities run by the Sudan Media and Elections Consortium (SMEC) continue on a daily basis. Monitors are observing that the coverage of election contestants and politicians has increased considerably from February to March.
Both TV and radio have almost doubled the airtime devoted to reporting on candidates and parties. The trend in the media coverage continues to be one focused mainly on the National and GoSS Presidential elections.
This trend is also reflected at party-level where the NCP and the SPLM receive the highest percentage of time and space. The NCP is given 46 percent of the total airtime dedicated to election and political coverage on television and 53 percent on radio, whilst SPLM receives 32 percent airtime on television and 21 percent on radio. The main focus of the press coverage is, like in the previous reporting period, still on the executive positions in the elections like the Presidency, State Governor posts and for the National Assembly (receiving respectively 38, 39 and 22 percent of the total space).
News is the main format used by the radio and TV stations to convey information regarding elections and politics (around 50 percent of the overall airtime); programmes outside the scope of editorial control of the media – namely free and paid airtime – are also central in the media campaign of parties and they represent almost 30 percent of all the broadcasting devoted to politics.
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