Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation
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| Type |
Broadcast radio and television |
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| Country | Cyprus |
| Availability | Europe and the US |
| Owner | Republic of Cyprus |
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Key people
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Costas Nicolaides (Acting Director-general) Andis Tryfonides (President) |
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Launch date
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4 October 1953 (radio) 1 October 1957 (television) |
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Former names
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Cyprus Broadcasting Service (1953-1959) |
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Official website
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tv PIK |
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (Greek: Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου Radiofonikó Ídryma Kýprou, Turkish: Kıbrıs Radyo Yayın Kurumu), or CyBC (ΡΙΚ, KRYK), is Cyprus' public broadcasting service. It transmits island-wide on four radio and two domestic television channels, and uses one satellite channel for the Cypriot diaspora. CyBC is a nonprofit organization, using its entire income for its mission to provide objective information and entertainment to the people of Cyprus.
CyBC was partially funded by a tax on electric bills, a practice which ended on 1 July 2000; CyBC is currently funded by the state budget. The amount of the tax was dependent on the size of the home and, as a hypothecated tax for public television, was similar in principle to the television licence systems in other countries. The corporation is a member of the international broadcasting community, belonging to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Broadcasting Organisation of Non-Aligned Countries (BONAC) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA).
CyBC began as the Cyprus Broadcasting Service, with its first radio broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday, 4 October 1953. Programs were broadcast in Greek, Turkish and English on 434 and 495 metres medium wave (691 and 606 kilohertz). The station produced a free weekly publication, Radio Cyprus.
Television broadcasting began on 1 October 1957. Broadcasts were initially five days a week, averaging three hours a day, and the service covered a radius of 33 kilometres from Nicosia.
On 1 January 1959, the Cyprus Broadcasting Service ceased to be a government department and was renamed the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation under Chapter 300A of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation Act. The corporation was modelled in part on the British Broadcasting Corporation. CyBC was admitted as an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union on 1 January 1964, becoming an active member five years later.
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