Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) - Forest Side

ABOUT THE MBC

The Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is a public service broadcaster and is the principal medium for the dissemination of information, education and entertainment programmes in Mauritius and its outer islands.


MISSION

As a national public broadcasting service, the MBC broadcasts news and programmes that caters for the intellectual, cultural, information and entertainment needs of the Mauritian population.


OBJECTIVES

The main objectives of the MBC are, inter alia, to provide independent and impartial broadcasting services of information, education, culture and entertainment in the different languages spoken or taught in the country and ensure that its broadcasting services help towards the development, of knowledge, sense of initiative, civic  

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rights, duties and responsibilities of the population.


BROADCASTING SERVICES IN MAURITIUS

Radio Channels
The MBC radio services currently consist of:
(a) FM channels: Taal FM, Kool FM, Music FM, Best FM
(b) AM channels: Radio Mauritius, Radio Maurice

Television Channels
The MBC currently broadcasts seventeen (17) television channels on the digital platform as follows:
>> MBC 1
>> MBC 2
>> MBC 3
>> Digital 4
>> Zoom TV
>> BBC World News
>> Bhojpuri Channel
>> France 24
>> MBC Knowledge
>> Sports 11
>> Cine 12
>> DD Sahyadri
>> DD Podhigai
>> DD Saptagiri
>> DD 16 – Urdu Channel
>> Senn Kreol
>> CCTV

MBC 1, 2 and 3 are also broadcast on the analogue platform.