The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation is a state-run radio company in
Malawi
Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...
. It was founded in 1964. It has two
radio station
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s, Radio 1 and Radio 2, and transmits on
FM,
Medium Wave
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and
Shortwave
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frequencies and Online.
It also runs the national television station,
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.
Its headquarters is in
Blantyre, Malawi
Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Li ...
.
Companies of Malawi
Government of Malawi
Radio stations established in 1964
Mass media in Blantyre
Radio stations in Malawi
1964 establishments in Malawi
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