The Nauru Broadcasting Service is the

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service of the

Republic of Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

. Founded in 1968, when the country obtained

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, the NBS operates Nauru Television and

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. By the early 2000s, in a context of economic difficulties, the NBS was producing no local content, but rebroadcast programmes from the

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, the

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and

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. Nauru TV possessed no functioning cameras, and Nauru Radio's broadcast signals were too weak to be heard throughout the small country. The NBS's capacities were subsequently enhanced with the assistance of

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, and by the late 2000s it was

locally made programmes across the island."Nauru makes media network from scratch"
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'', 15 February 2010

References

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