Media Ownership, Funding And Challenges: Implication For State Owned Media Survival In Nigeria

This study examines ownership, funding challenges and its implication for state media survival in Nigeria. The study adopted two research designs- survey and focus group discussion. The participants comprised of 66 registered journalists from Taraba State Broadcasting Service (TSBS) and Taraba Television (TTV). The researchers examined the entire population in order to totally eliminate sampling error.The instruments used for data collection were the questionnaire and the focus group. Sixty-six (66) questionnaires were distributed to the sampled population. Out of the sixty-six (66) questionna…