Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is the Zimbabwean state broadcaster based in Harare . Founded in 1963 as the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) , the company was given its current name after the country gained its independence in 1980. Your reporting is under government control.
In 2000, the ruler Robert Mugabe announced a "Broadcast Services Act", which should loosen the monopoly of the ZBC for all broadcasting in Zimbabwe. The ZBC has meanwhile been subordinated to the operating company Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) . The Media Institute for South Africa demanded in a petition in 2016 that the ZBC should report freely and independently of the government and place itself under the African Charter on Broadcasting .
radio
ZBC operates four nationwide radio programs
- ZBC National FM , News in English,
- ZBC Radio Zimbabwe in Shona and Ndebele languages
- Power FM , pop music
- SFM (formerly Sport FM), sports coverage
watch TV
ZBC operates two television channels and produces 105 hours of weekly programming. TV One reaches around half of the population, TV Two broadcasts for the surrounding area and the capital Harare.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Muaz Cisse: Transform the ZBC into at independent public broadcaster - MISA Zimbabwe. Retrieved November 15, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ a b EISA Zimbabwe: Broadcasting Media. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
- ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/pdf/AMDI/zimbabwe/amdi_zimbabwe6_television.pdf