The Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) is a state-owned

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and

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Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It ...

. Founded as a corporation in 1960, the network was owned and operated by

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until 1968, when management passed to the Government of Liberia. The network began broadcasting television as the Liberia Broadcasting Corporation in January 1964 over channel 6. Following the 1980 coup d’état, the newly formed People's Redemption Council gave the network its current name. As a result of the

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, the company briefly ceased broadcasting in 1990, because the network's premises were heavily damaged by war and looters over the next seven years. The station later continued to broadcast all through the war after its home in Paynesville, outside Monrovia became inaccessible Monrovia. Upon the arrival of the West African peace keeping mission, ECOMOG, to Liberia in 1990, The Force provider a space for LBS to continue its broadcast at the Monrovia Free Zone, on the Bushroad Island, where the Peace Keepers were based. The station later moved to the Ducor Continental Hotel on upper broad street in central Monrovia where LBS operated until 1998 (following the election and inauguration of Charles Taylor as president of Liberia) when it moved back to Paynesville. The network continue to provide radio broadcasts, though the lack of proper equipment limited the broadcasts to a sixty-mile radius around

Monrovia Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As th ...

. In 2008, the

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installed a new 10 kW FM transmitter, along with several secondary transmitters throughout the country, which extended the network nationwide. Additionally, the network reestablish its television service, the Liberia National Television for the Monrovia area, in the beginning, with plans to extend it nationwide.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Liberia Broadcasting System Radio stations in Liberia Mass media in Monrovia 1960 establishments in Liberia Publicly funded broadcasters Television channels and stations established in 1964 State media

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