The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation is a state-run radio and television company in

Malawi Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...

Description

Radio was introduced to Malawi, then the British colony of Nyasaland, in 1941, when the Information Department of the government of neighbouring Northern Rhodesia, another British colony, installed a 300-watt transmitter in its capital, Lusaka, to provide a service to all African citizens of the Rhodesian region, Radio Lusaka, in both English and local African languages. Since Northern Rhodesia could not afford such a specialist service alone, the administrators of Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were soon persuaded to share the costs, while the British government agreed to provide share capital; thus the Central African Broadcasting Station (CABS) was born. In 1953 the United Kingdom created the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland with Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe) as its capital; The Southern Rhodesian Broadcasting Service, which operated in Southern Rhodesia for European listeners, was subsequently renamed the "Federal Broadcasting Service" (FBS). In 1958 FBS and CABS formed the Federal Broadcasting Corporation (FBC). MBC was founded in 1964 empowered by an act of parliament. It has two

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

s, Radio 1 and Radio 2, and transmits on FM,

Medium Wave Medium wave (MW) is a part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. During the daytim ...

and

Shortwave Shortwave radio is radio transmission using radio frequencies in the shortwave bands (SW). There is no official definition of the band range, but it always includes all of the high frequency band (HF), which extends from 3 to 30 MHz (app ...

frequencies and Online and MBC 2 Malawi. It also runs the national television station, Television Malawi. Its headquarters is in

Blantyre Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264 . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is ...

History

The MBC provided the maintenance for the relays of the

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in the country for

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after 2001.

List of notable MBC people

Hassan Goba

Hassan Goba was one of the station's veteran broadcasters until 2017.

Geoffrey Kapusa

In 2012, veteran broadcaster, Geoffrey Kapusa, who was known to have started a music programme called Music Splash retired from the company after over 20 years.

Anne Kadammanja

Kadammanja, a veteran broadcaster in Malawi. She joined MBC in the 2010s before she died in 2018. She was known for creating several programs on the radio such as "hot 26", "Lover's night" and "Why did you lose them?" and hosting the morning program, "breakfast show".

Chisomo Ngulube

Chisomo Ngulube became the chief editor for MBC's television news.

Maria Chidzanja Nkhoma

Maria Chidzanja Nkhoma joined MBC in 1982 and worked as broadcaster here for the first twelve years of her career.

References

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