PART III—BROADCASTING SERVICES
11. Public broadcasting service
(1) A Public Broadcaster shall;
(a) provide independent and impartial broadcasting services of information,
education and entertainment in English and Kiswahili and such other languages as
the broadcaster may decide;
(b) conduct the broadcasting services impartially and consider to the interests and
susceptibilities of the different communities in Kenya;
(c) provide and receive from other persons material to be broadcast:
Provided that in acquiring such material, the public broadcaster shall have regard
to the need to maintain the distinctive character of the public broadcasting service
and to cater for the expectations of audiences who are not generally catered for by
other broadcasting services.
(2) The public broadcasting service shall be supported by revenues from the
exchequer, grants, donations and its commercial services but shall not draw from
advertising and sponsorship.
(3) The public broadcaster shall not lease or transfer the broadcast frequencies or
channels assigned to it for use in public broadcasting.
(4) The Commission may, on application by the public broadcaster, grant the
public broadcaster a licence to provide broadcasting services on a commercial
basis.
(5) Where the public broadcaster is granted a licence to provide broadcasting
services on a commercial basis, it may be required to maintain and keep separate
accounts for its public and commercial broadcasting services.
(6) The public broadcaster may, when providing its commercial services enter into
public private partnership:
Provided that the public private partnership complies with the law relating to
public procurement.