Who Owns the Media in Mongolia? | Media Ownership Monitor
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MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA WHO OWNS THE POLITICS & FRIENDS MEDIA? BIG BUSINESS & WASHED NEWS This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 16:10 1 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Media Ownership Matters Mass media influences how facts are viewed and debated in a society, contributing to crafting its public opinion. Independence and pluralism of media, opinions and views - including criticism of people in power - is the safeguard of a healthy democratic system. Monitoring and ensuring ownership pluralism is the first step towards independence and freedom of choice: How can people evaluate the reliability of information, if they don't know who provides it? How can journalists work properly, if they don't know who controls the company they work for? And how can media authorities address excessive media concentration, if they don't know who is behind the media's steering wheel ? Ownership structures may also affect the way the media industry manages its resources, thus shapes the economic strength and efficiency of the media sector. This is of particular interest to potential investors. Media & Owners Database MEDIA OWNER This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 16:10 2 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Key Findings Legal Framework Economy & Media Politics & Friends Market Media laws are deficient Political affiliations everywhere A big market: public opinion Media Freedom is guaranteed by In Mongolia, politics is business law, but not realized in practice. It is a big market: influencing and business is politics. And there Transparency obligations for public opinion. This is a hint why are no regulatory safeguards at all media owners are deficient, and Mongolia’s media market offers against political control over licensing and registration close to 500 media products to a media ownership, though they are authorities belong to the market of three million people. not business as any other. government. Not least State Obviously, media ownership is not Consequently, Mongolia’s media advertisement is distributed so much seen as a money-making market is penetrated by political without any rules. more machine, but rather serves other affiliations. more interests. more Indicators of Risk to Media Pluralism Media Audience Con- Regulatory Safeguards: Media Ownership Con- Cross-media Ownership centration Media Ownership Con- centration Concentration centration MEDIUM TO NO DATA LOW HIGH HIGH This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 16:10 3 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Regulatory Safeguards: Regulatory Safeguards: (Political) Control Over Ownership Transparen- Cross-media Ownership Ownership Transparen- Media Outlets and Dis- cy Concentration cy tribution Networks HIGH MEDIUM HIGH HIGH (Political) Control Over (Political) Control Over Media Funding News Agencies HIGH LOW This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 16:10 4 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Media Research by the Press Institute of Mongolia, MOM’s partner organization, shows that in early 2016 there were a total of 485 media outlets: 101 newspapers, 69 radio stations, 131 TV stations and 98 internet news portals. MOM investigated the top 12 print outlets, 6 most popular radio stations, 11 highest ranked TV stations and 10 most popular news websites. MOM research came to the conclusion that the print media market and the online news sector are highly concentrated. The TV and radio markets have a medium concentration level. (See Context Economy and Media Market, Indicators 1and 2) This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 5 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Media RADIO TV PRINT ONLINE This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 6 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Radio In fact, in huge Mongolia even 62 percent of the rural population does not listen to radio at all. Still, the public service broadcaster MNB is the most popular radio station nationwide. But there are more stations with interesting and particular programs as MOM researches show. This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 7 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Arga Bileg 95.7 Elgen Nutag FM 96.9 Family Radio 104.5 Ikh Mongol FM 99.7 Mongolian National Shine Mongol Radio Public Radio 106.0 101.7 This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 8 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Television Television is still the most popular media in Mongolia. 80 percent of Mongolians watch every day. And two out of 3 viewers watch News programs. The number of TV station totals 131. Of these, 50 television stations broadcast their programs across the country. There are 16 national television stations registered, 54 Ulaanbaatar television stations and 61 local television stations. Out of the 131 TV channels broadcasting in Mongolia MOM researched the 11 most important and popular channels. This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 9 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 10 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Eagle news TV ETV MN 25 channel MNB Mongol HD TV NTV SBN TV 5 TV 8 TV9 UBS Television This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 11 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Print Also in Mongolia, the number of traditional newspaper subscribers is decreasing – in line with world trends – also due to the fact that many newspapers can now be accessed online. 45 % of newspapers have a website, 48 % a Facebook account and 19 % a Twitter account. Furthermore, the website www.sonin.mn makes 34 newspapers available free of charge. MOM research indicates the print market as highly concentrated. (See Context Economy-Media market, Context Media, Indicator 1, Indicator 2) This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 12 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Egel Co Ltd (Since Mongolyn Medee Mongolyn Unen Montsame Agency January 2016 dissolved local newspaper association) Open Door Udriin Sonin Ugloonii Sonin Uls Turiin Toim Undeshnii Shuudan Undesnii Medee Unoodor Zasgiin Gazryn Medee Zuuny Medee This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource mongolia.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2021/10/10 at 19:40 13 / 923 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Press Institute of Mongolia - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR MONGOLIA Online Media The impacts of mobile phones and the internet cannot be underestimated in this huge country with previously huge black holes of communication – now, large parts of Mongolia that were for centuries more or less disconnected