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HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

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59Executive Director Léopold Banger described Vision 2000’s target audience as: “across-section of the public that sticks with quality, a portion of the population at allsocial levels who consider themselves educated.”Vision 2000 was ranked as the 10 th most popular station in Port-au-Prince by theDAGMAR media audience survey of November 2010. It gave the station a 2.8%share of the radio audience in the capital.Berlanger is the largest shareholder in Multipresse, the parent company of Vision2000.About 60% of Vision 2000’s broadcast output is in Creole. The remainder is inFrench.The station employs 12 journalists <strong>and</strong> presenters in Port-au-Prince <strong>and</strong> 12provincial correspondents who contribute to its news gathering.Radio 2000 carries news bulletins in both French <strong>and</strong> Creole <strong>and</strong> a daily currentaffairs magazine programme.The station covers business <strong>and</strong> sport <strong>and</strong> carries educational programmes onhealth matters. There is also some religious programming.Vision 2000 is politically independent <strong>and</strong> regards itself as a medium of record.It frequently sold air time to humanitarian organisations during the aftermath of the2010 earthquake.Vision 2000 was one of the main broadcasters of Enfòmasyon Nou Dwe Konnen(ENDK), a daily programme radio produced by the US-based media developmentorganisation Internews www.internews.org that gave earthquake survivors vitalinformation.59

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