In the South, native origin of the head of State of Cameroon, only five communes out of the 29 in the region are covered optimally by the signal from the public broadcasting service.
CRTV covers the localities of Kribi I and II, Ebolowa I and II, Sangmelima. In the other boroughs, the signal is approximate or non-existent. This is the case of the town of Kye-Ossi, border with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon; Mintom, Djoum, Olamze, among others.
These results are contained in a study conducted by the "collective of development organizations and South support" (CODAS), an organization of civil society (CSOs) Cameroon.
If they are victims of a media isolation, the people of the South contribute audiovisual licence fee (Rav), tax instituted in 1989. According to the CODAS, the southern region would have already contributed more than CFAF 8 billion to this tax.
CODAS received funding from the EU via the program of support to civil society (Pasc) of about 19,449 million CFA to complete its programme entitled: "Promotion of the rights of consumers and advocacy for the strengthening of the CRTV transmitter signal in the region of South Cameroon".
