Radio and TV broadcasting companies face local content obligations which discriminate against locally established foreign-owned audiovisual producers.
"31.-(1) A minimum of sixty (60) percent of all content provided by a free-to-air content services licensee, measured as a weekly average over the period of a year, shall be content produced by-
(a) a natural person who is a citizen of, and permanently resident in the United Republic;
(b) a legal person, the majority of whose directors or shareholders are citizens and permanently residing in the United Republic;
(c) the licensee or any person due authorized by relevant authority to undertake local content production;
(2) For the purpose of these regulations, local content means the total of all television or radio programmes which fulfill the following conditions-
(a) the production is made in Kiswahili or English;
(b) the content deals with issues that are unique and relevant to Tanzanian audiences;
(c) at least forty percent (40%) of the shares of the production company are owned by Tanzanians;
(d) a majority of the artist are Tanzanians;
(e) the location of the shooting in case of audiovisual programmes or performance was in Tanzania;
(f) the author of the program is a Tanzanian and in case of co-authorship or multi-authorship, fifty percent (50%) or more of the authors are Tanzanian;
(3) For the purpose of this regulation, local content does not include news and commentaries. 
(4) Public and commercial content services licensees shall ensure that not less than 80% of their music selection is Tanzanian music and aired daily between 5.30 a.m and 9.00p.m.
(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulation (1), the licensee shall ensure that ten percent (10%) of local content aired by the licensee shall be produced and supplied to the licensee by independent producers.[...]"(THE ELECTRONIC AND POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS (RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING CONTENT) REGULATIONS, 2018)

THE ELECTRONIC AND POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS (RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING CONTENT) REGULATIONS, 2018, last amended in 2022
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