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Like many developing countries, Morocco has sought the help of radio and television to disseminate development ideas to its citizens. There are large numbers of non-literate or marginally literate individuals who are living out their lives in print-scarce environments with few or no reading materials in their homes, but they have regular access to radio and television. Since 2002, the Moroccan government has given policy considerations to regulate the use of radio and television as an important outside sources for promoting its development programs. The government created the High Commission for Audiovisual Communication (Haut Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle-HACA) in August 2002 to establish the legal framework for the liberalization of the audio-visual sector. In September of the same year, it promulgated a decree law that ended the state's monopoly of the national broadcasting system and allow the licensing of new private radio and television stations. The Moroccan parliament adopted the reform law on November 25, 2004. The law transformed the Moroccan Radio and Television (RTM) from a subsidiary of the Ministry of Communication to an independent and self