Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation is the
Republic of Mauritius’ public broadcaster, also known as MBC. The
corporation was formed in 1964, on June the 8th with the money coming
from the commercials (40%) and TV license fee (600%). Still, the money
coming from advertising has been putting under pressure since 2002, once
with the private commercial broadcasters’ introduction.
MBC1, MBC2, MBC3 are analogue channels
and all part of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation. There are also
the MBCDigital1, MBCDigital2, MBCDigital3, MBCDigital4, MBCDigital5 and
MBCDigital6, digital channels, also part of MBC. In March 2011 two
digital channels (new and terrestrial) were launched, called the Sports
Channel and the Movie Channel.
More, a
24 hour news channel was also under discussion, the
channel providing international, regional and local
news. Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation has 5 radio
stations: World Hit FM, Taal FM, Kool FM, RM1 ad
RM2. The board of MBC control and administration has
7 members, the everyday management and control and
policy execution are owned by the director
general-also the corporation’s chief executive
officer with a 500 employees establishment under
direction. The TV and radio programs have large
range of subjects being broadcasted in Chinese,
Creole, Hindustani, English and French. The
programmes are obtained from suppliers of other
countries with other produced by MBC. Mauritius
Broadcast Corporation radio begins in 1927, on
August 9, with Charles Jollivet and its 1 kilowatt
radio transmitter, made by him and with medium wave
as well as a microphone of carbon granule and 2
manual record payers.
The radio station had
its location at Jollivet’s house in Beau-Bassin and
it was called Radio Maurice. Later, it was
transferred in Rose-Hill at Plaza Theatre. The
everyday program was made of news, music and had two
hours duration. In 1937, the second radio station
was launched under Societe des Radiophilles aegis
and P.
Adam. First, its location was in Forest Side and
then in Curepipe at Town Hall. A 60 watts Phillips transmitter made the
broadcasting and it was used especially to send messages to Societe’s members.
The Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation story begins at the end of the World War
II, when the government took the France Libre d’Outremer and mixed with
Curepipe’s Societe des Radiophilles. It represented the beginning of a national
broadcasting station’s appearance and development. In 1944, on July the 1st the
MBS (Mauritius Broadcasting Service) was launched as a department of the
government public relations office. Dr. Vaughn (the information services’ head)
and H. Ardill were the managers. There was a studio in Rose Hill at Plaza from
where the transmissions were done but in 1946 the station moved its place at
Forest Side – the PSC building now (Teachers’ Training College - then).
There
were morning, midday and evening programmes segments, broadcasted every day with
the help of a Short Wave transmitter, a second hand one and converted to one 225
m wavelengths medium wave. Almost in the same period, the ex government press
service, the Globe Reuters News Service became an annex of the Mauritius
Broadcasting Corporation.
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