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The purpose of the regulations is to protect and promote national and provincial identity, culture and character. public television broadcasting a public television broadcasting licensee must ensure that a minimum of all genres listed below is broadcast: - 35% of its drama programming consists of south african drama; - 80% of its current affairs programming consists of south african current affairs; - 50% of its documentary programming consists of south african documentary programming; - 50% of its knowledge-building programming consists of south african knowledge building programming; - 60% of its educational programming consists of south african educational programming; and - 55% of its children’s programming consists of south african children’s programming. community television broadcasting - a community television broadcasting licensee must ensure that after 24 months of gazetting the regulations in the case of existing licensee or within 24 months of issuing of a licence to a new licensee, or within such longer period as the independent communications authority of south africa (icasa) may determine, a minimum weekly average of 65% of its programming during the television performance period must consist of local television content. at least 30% of the 65% quota must be produced from the licensee’s coverage area, increasing by 10% annually until reaching 50% measured over the period of a year and such local television content must be spread evenly throughout the said performance period and prime time. commercial television broadcasting - a commercial television broadcasting licensee must ensure that after 24 months of gazetting the regulations in the case of existing licensee or within 24 months of issuing of a licence to a new licensee, or within such longer period as the independent communications authority of south africa may determine, a minimum weekly average of 45% of its programming measured, over the period of a year during the south african television performance period consists of local television content. in complying with its obligations in terms of the above paragraph, a commercial television licensee must ensure that a minimum of all genres listed below is broadcast: - 20% of its drama programming consists of south african drama - 50% of its current affairs programming consists of south african current affairs; - 30% of its documentary programming consists of south african documentary programming; - 30% of its knowledge-building programming consists of south african knowledge building programming; and - 25% of its children’s programming consists of south african children’s programming. subscription television broadcasting - - a subscription television broadcasting licensee must ensure that within 24 months of gazetting of the regulations in the case of existing licensee or within 24 months of issuing of a licence to a new licensee or within such longer period as the independent communications authority of south africa may determine, a minimum of 15% percent of their annual content acquisition budget is spent on local television content programming. - a subscription broadcasting service licensee that acquires channels must ensure that, a minimum of 15% of their total annual channel acquisition budget, measured across its service as a whole, is spent on channels with local television content that are compiled and up linked from south africa. - the broadcasting by a subscription television broadcasting licensee of licensed free-to-air public television broadcasting services, licensed free-to-air commercial broadcasting services and licensed community television broadcasting services will not count towards its compliance. independent television production - public, commercial, community and subscription television broadcasting licensees must ensure that a minimum of 40% of their local television content programming consists of programmes which are independent television productions and the independent television productions are spread evenly between south african arts programming, south african drama, south african documentary, south african knowledge-building, south african children’s and south african education programming. - a public, commercial and subscription television broadcasting licensee must ensure after 24 months of the gazetting of these regulations or such longer period as the authority may determine, that 50% of annual independently produced programmed budget is spent on previously marginalised local african languages and/or programmes commissioned from regions outside the durban, cape town and johannesburg metropolitan cities.