There has been an upheaval of the media landscape in Tanzania in the past month. Following communication by Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) to media outlets of their intention to suspend the licenses of pay TV company, Multichoice Tanzania Ltd – the owners of DSTV removed all FTA stations except for TBC1 from their decoder channel list.  The owners of Zuku and Azam, and Zuku subsequently also followed suite in compliance with the new TCRA directive

This change has meant that a significant portion of the TV viewing audience in Tanzania has not been able to watch leading FTA stations through these decoders. However, the impact of this switch has yet to be quantified, so since August 12 media owners, brands, and advertising agencies have been in the dark around how viewership has changed and how it has affected advertising rates and ROI, audience targeting, and station rankings.

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In order to provide all media stakeholders with the most accurate, up-to-date data available on the media landscape in Tanzania, GeoPoll is pleased to release an in-depth analysis of the impact the switch has had on station rankings, audience share, audience demographics, and more. This report has been compiled using GeoPoll Audience Measurement data, which gathers approximately 1700 completed surveys per day in Tanzania.

GeoPoll analyzed data from before, immediately following, and in the three weeks following the switch and compared audience share by demographics and location for all leading stations during this time period. The report also includes data on decoder usage in Tanzania which has previously only been available to subscribers of GeoPoll Audience Measurement. The table of contents for this report can be seen below:

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  • National trends
  • Male and female viewership changes
  • Age group changes
• Changes in Audience by Region
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  • Lake
  • Coastal
  • Central
• Impact on Consumption of News Hours
  • 7:00 – 8:00pm
  • 7:30 – 8:30pm
  • 8:00 – 9:00pm
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• About GeoPoll Services
• Contact Information

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Last week Tanzania’s parliament called for the Prime Minister to resign after a report was published which revealed $120 Million in public funds for energy had been stolen through fraudulent payments. The parliamentary sessions in which the scale of the scandal was revealed were aired on the national broadcaster, TBC, and on other stations such as StarTV. GeoPoll’s daily media measurement data revealed that viewership on TBC1 was up throughout the week, with large spikes in viewership on TBC1 on both Thursday the 27th and Friday the 28th, and a smaller spike on Saturday the 29th. 

TBC1’s viewership rarely exceeds 1 million viewers: from November 1st to 25th there was only one instance in which TBC1 had just over 1 million viewers in a half hour time block. The week of the hearings, TBC1 far surpassed that, getting 1.48 million viewers on Thursday the 27th at 5pm, 1.56 million viewers on Friday the 28th at 9:30pm, and 1.29 million viewers on Saturday the 29th at 8pm. This demonstrates that the dramatic hearings were pulling over 150% of the usual peak audience size.  

Star TV also saw a slight peak on Friday the 28th at 9:30pm, with 848,000 viewers, bringing the total viewers of the parliament hearings on these two channels to 2.37 million. 

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