The Mongolian National Broadcaster (MNB; ; ; shortened as ''МҮОНRТ'') is the official, state-funded broadcaster in

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

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Mongolian National Public Radio and Television (MNB) is the oldest broadcasting organization in Mongolia as well as the only public service broadcaster in the country. MNB's purpose is to be a leading broadcasting organization that is independent and impartial, and serves for public interests only. Additionally, MNB puts its efforts in promoting Mongolia to the world through its external service broadcasting programs to foreign audiences. Today MNB is available in over 1.8 million households in Mongolia which is over 90 percent of the entire population. According to the Law on Public Radio and Television, adopted in 2005, MNB is a non-profit legal entity, which is to carry out a nationwide broadcasting service. Its highest governing body is The National Council of the MNB which consists of 15 members. General management of the organization is run by Director-General who is appointed by the National Council.

History

Broadcasting started in

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in May/June 1931 and was organized by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Gombyn Sodnom. During the early 1960s, local radio broadcasting for Ulaanbaatar was introduced, and a second national radio channel was established.Encyclopædia Britannica
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transmitters were opened: 1965 in the western city of Ölgii, 1978 in Altai,

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and Choibalsan. In 1981 the

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transmitter started broadcasting on

mediumwave Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. During the dayti ...

. The international shortwave service started in 1964 and was renamed "Voice of Mongolia" in 1997. The Ölgii station also carries local programming in Kazakh. In 2011 Р3 was launched as a youth programme. Television broadcasts started in September 1967, and a second channel was launched in July 2011. The transmitters are operated by RTBN (Radio and Television Broadcasting Network; ).

Services

Television

MNB's television services () consist of four channels.
MNB
()
MNB News
()
MNB Sport HD
(МҮОНРТ-ийн Спорт суваг)
MNB World
(English language channel)

Radio

MNB's radio services () consist of two dosmetic networks and one international service.
МҮОНР-1
(), nationwide on longwave, in Ulaanbaatar on FM 106
Р3 FM
nationwide, in Ulaanbaatar on FM 100.9 * Voice of Mongolia (), the international shortwave radio service in five languages (Mongolian, English, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese)

Website

MNB Website
( Mongolian: Монголын үндэсний олон нийтийн цахим хуудас)
Voice of Mongolian
( Mongolian: Монголын дуу хоолой)

Relations

Since its foundation the MNB had been working to develop its international relations and co-operate with international broadcasters. In January 1997 it became a full member of the

Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU or APBU), formed in 1964, is a non-profit, professional association of broadcasting organisations. It currently has over 287 members in 57 countries and regions, reaching a potential audience of about 3 bil ...

. As well as broadcasting domestically produced material, it also has program exchanges with Russian Public TV,

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

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ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

and Deutsche Welle.

References

External links

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Official Facebook Page
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