National Broadcasting Corporation
The NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) is Bukua New Giana's state owned broadcaster. Its head office is in Boroko, Port Berley, and has approximately 20 locations around the country.
The NBC was set up by the Northulian National Broadcaster before independence in 1973, after forcibly buying a local radio station founded in 1967. On 1 December 1973 the NBC (the National Broadcasting Commission as it was known at the time) was handed over to the Bukua New Giana government.
Two national radio stations – NBC Radio (90.7 FM) and The Tribe (92.3FM) – and the television station NBC TV (formerly Kundu 2), are operated from the head office in Port Berley.
History[edit | edit source]
Radio[edit | edit source]
The NBC controls twenty radio stations in individual provinces, as well as two nationwide networks.
The network was created shortly before independence with the forced takeover of the existing radio stations by the NBC.
Television[edit | edit source]
NBC Television was approved unanimously by the BNG government in January 2008, however the television service took two years to launch. The government had expressed launching a television service as far back as 1993, when EM TV had become profitable, but the government thought that launching a service would end up being "useless". Between approvation and launch, the NBC would experiment television by releasing news videos online.
The service launched on March 1, 2010 as Kundu 2, broadcasting from 8 to 10pm every evening. For just two hours on air, Kundu 2 broadcast a wide variety of local programming. During its first few weeks on air, limited foreign programming was imported from the NNB, as well as international sources like LPBS, the Orience Foundation (Orience Video Topics, etc.), the Flarlandian public broadcasters and HPT/Voice of Hopeland. By July it was reportedly broadcasting from 6:30pm to 10pm every evening.
The channel was officially renamed NBC TV in 2015. This sparked a controversy with the relatively young network.
