A majority of the population are receiving useful information for their lives from newspapers. Approximately 60 per cent of people rely on newspapers for useful information, 30 per cent receive necessary information from radio, and 20 per cent watch TV as the source of useful information.

Television is a comparatively young media in the country, which began broadcasting its first program 33 years ago. Television viewers appear to have a strong loyalty to the National Central IV, which for many years, has been the only visual information and entertainment medium in Mongolia. UB IV founded on the basis of the Mongolian TV film studio is apparently building up its popularity.

The Mongolian mass media obtain their material and sources from domestic and foreign news agencies, internet, and correspondents at home and abroad and from direct research.

At present there is no state control or censorship of the newspaper and periodical press in Mongolia. 1998 Law of Freedom of the Media contains many important provisions, including a requirement that "the state shall not impose control over the contents of public information.