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Prime-time Daily Monitoring Report # 2008 - 14
Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ)
April 02, 2008

This report monitors the political content of ZBC's radio and television programming especially issues relating to the March 29 elections, during prime-time listening and viewing. (It does not include the content of the main news bulletins, which form the basis of separate research).

All stations (Zimbabwe Television, Spot FM and Radio Zimbabwe) are monitored from 0700hrs-1000hrs, 12 noon-1400hrs and 1700hrs-2300hrs.

Summary
ZBC continued with the announcement of House of Assembly election results. The national broadcaster aired ZEC officials advising the electorate that the results for the presidential election would be announced in "due course" since they had started receiving them. However, election results are still being announced in a carefully stage managed exercise which keeps the two main parties at par for the second consecutive day.

Current Affairs programmes
There were five sessions (at 0040hrs, 0715hrs, 1200hrs, 1830hrs, and 2015hrs) on ZBC (all stations) in which ZEC announced the House of Assembly results. Results for 92 constituencies were announced today. ZANU PF got 47 seats and MDC (Tsvangirai) got 45 seats. To date ZANU PF has 78 seats, MDC (Tsvangirai) faction 77 seats and MDC (Mutambara) faction five seats.

During the 1200hrs session, Lovemore Sekeramayi of ZEC gave the following announcement, "Zimbabwe Electoral Commission would like to advise the nation that it is currently receiving the presidential results from the various provinces. The verification of the results will commence in the presence of all the candidates or their election agents, once all the results have been received. Please note that ZEC has been working with the parties' Chief Election Agents who have also been present at the National Command Centre and are in full agreement with the arrangement. Therefore, we would like to urge the nation to remain patient as we go through this meticulous verification process. The commission would further like to commend the electorate for showing political maturity and tolerance before, during and after the elections. We urge you to continue in that spirit".

As alluded to here, it remains unclear when the all-important presidential results will be announced.

There were no other current affairs programmes containing any political content on any of ZBC's stations during the day.

Political music : None

Political advertisements: None

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