Empresa Brasil de Comunicação

The Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC; Brazil Communication Company) is a Brazilian federal public media conglomerate. It was established on October 24, 2007, to provide public broadcasting services and manage federal television and several public radio stations, as well as communication services such as a public news agency and the EBC Portal.

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Empresa Brasil de Comunicação S/A

Company type	Sociedade Anônima
Industry	Public broadcasting
Founded	Brasília, Brazil (October 25, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-10-25))^[1]
Headquarters	Brasília, Brazil
Area served	Brazil
Key people	Jean Lima (President Director) Maíra Bittencourt (Director General)
Services	News agency Radio stations Television stations MediaWeb
Number of employees	1,844 (as of August 2021)^[2]
Subsidiaries	TV Brasil Rádio Nacional Agência Brasil
Website	ebc.com.br

The EBC includes the TV Brasil (a television station network), the Agência Brasil (the news agency), the Portal EBC (the news portal), the EBC Serviços (a division that produces A Voz do Brasil radio program for the Secretariat of Government of the Presidency of the Republic) and the National Radio Network (Rádio MEC AM, Rádio MEC FM, Rádio Nacional do Alto Solimões, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Rádio Nacional de Brasília AM, Rádio Nacional de Brasília FM, Rádio Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, among others).

The EBC was created by the Brazilian government on Thursday, 24 October 2007, when the Federal Decree No. 6.246 was published in the Diário Oficial da União.^[3] The creation of the company was authorized on 10 October 2007, through the Provisional Measure No. 398, converted into the Federal Law No. 11.652 of 7 April 2008.^[4] EBC Bylaws was approved on 10 December 2008, by means of the Federal Decree Number 6.689.^[5]

The company, then, was created by merging the patrimony and staff from the Empresa Brasileira de Comunicação (Radiobrás) and of the Federal public assets under the guardianship of the Associação de Comunicação Educativa Roquette Pinto (ACERP), which was also coordinating TVE Brasil. A new management contract between the Federal Government and ACERP was signed, and ACERP was now a service provider to the EBC, which took over the channels concessions made to Radiobrás. The EBC creation was authorized through the Provisional Measure 398 (see above). On 1 September 2008, a Provisional Measure (MP 744) which changes the Federal Law No. 11.652, on 7 April 2008, establishing the principles and purposes of the public broadcasting services explored by the Federal Executive Authority or granted to entities that are part of its indirect management and authorizes the Federal Executive Authority to constitute the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação – EBC.

This institution is bound to the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency (SECOM - Secretaria de Comunicação Social da Presidência da República), and is headed by the journalist Laerte Rímoli, appointed to the position of Director-President. The EBC headquarters is in Brasília, but there are production centers and regional offices all over the country. The EBC holds autonomy and editorial independence from the Federal Government to define productions, programming, and content distribution on the public broadcasting system, which aims to promote the exercise of citizenship. The EBC programming is broadcast in television and radio networks (interacting with web medias), containing subjects of education, art, culture, science and technology, and to also foster the regional, national and independent productions.

The EBC is structured as anonymous society of closed capital, represented by shares, being the Federal Government its sole stakeholder at the moment. However, it is allowed for entities that are part of the indirect federal, state and city government to hold shares from the EBC, up to 49% of its total social capital. The EBC's financing comes from the Federal Budget, besides profit from licensing and production of programs, institutional advertisement, and service rendering to public and private institutions.

Such as the other public companies, the EBC is overseen externally by the Internal Controls Secretariat from the Presidency and by the Federal Court of Auditors.

In 2016, the then Director-President for the EBC, Ricardo Melo, was dismissed from its functions by then Acting President of Brazil, Michel Temer, and resorted to an appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing that the law which created the EBC stated that its Director-President shall remain in its functions for four consecutive years and, as such, could not be dismissed. In June, Supreme Justice Dias Toffoli granted a primary injunction determining that Melo ought to return to its functions as Director-President. The same judge, Dias Toffoli, revoked his decision on 8 September 2016, and decided that Laerte Rímoli had the right to remain on the position of director-president.^[6]

The following Director-President for the EBC, Glen Lopes, was appointed by the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2020.^[7]

The EBC is currently headed by Jean Lima, a President Director appointed by the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in 2023.

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