On 1 september, cabinet agreed in principle to the setting up of two fully privately owned and run TV channels. The conditions included a provision preventing political parties and other organisations, political groups and NGOs from holding shares in the new companies to protect them against "undesirable political or doctrinaire influence". Each station was to be required to allocate 70 percent of its airtime to news, documentaries and programmes of “valuable substance”; one station was to be required to give 96 hours per week of programming free of charge to the public relations department's non-commercial channel 11; and the other was to provide the same service to a new ministry of educational affairs channel that was to be established. The national economic and social development board was to draft detailed terms of reference, with the prime minister's office responsible for the auction of the licences.