Malawi Broadcasting Corporation

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

Malawi Broadcasting Corporation

in Zomba in 2012
Type	Broadcast radio and television
Country	Malawi
Founded	June 8, 1964
Broadcast area	National
Owner	Government of Malawi
Launch date	1964
Digital channel(s)	yes
Official website	www.mbc.mw

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.^[1] 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;^[2] thus the Central African Broadcasting Station (CABS) was born.^[3]

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).^[4]

In 1958 FBS and CABS formed the Federal Broadcasting Corporation (FBC).^[5]

MBC was founded in 1964 empowered by an act of parliament.^[6] It has two radio stations, Radio 1 and Radio 2, and transmits on FM, Medium Wave and Shortwave frequencies and Online and MBC 2 Malawi.^{[citation needed]}

It also runs the national television station, Television Malawi.

Its headquarters is in Blantyre.

History

The MBC provided the maintenance for the relays of the BBC World Service in the country for BBC after 2001.^[7]

List of notable MBC people

Hassan Goba

Hassan Goba was one of the station's veteran broadcasters until 2017.^[8]

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.^[9]

Anne Kadammanja

Kadammanja, a veteran broadcaster in Malawi. She joined MBC in the 2010s before she died in 2018.^[10] 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".^[10]

Chisomo Ngulube

Chisomo Ngulube became the chief editor for MBC's television news.^[11]

Maria Chidzanja Nkhoma

Maria Chidzanja Nkhoma joined MBC in 1982 and worked as broadcaster here for the first twelve years of her career.^[12]