Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
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| Type | Public Broadcaster |
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| Branding | NBC |
| Country |  Namibia |
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Namibia South Africa
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| Founded | March 1990 |
| Owner | Government of Namibia |
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Former names
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South West African Broadcasting Corporation |
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Television
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NBC |
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Radio
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Language Services:
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Official website
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Namibian Broadcasting Corporation |
Language Services:
The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster of Namibia. It was established in 1990, replacing the South West African Broadcasting Corporation.
Radio was originally broadcast in English and Afrikaans via shortwave from the South African Broadcasting Corporation's facilities in South Africa. The SABC introduced FM services in November 1969, including Radio Ovambo, broadcasting in the Kwanyama and Ndonga languages, and also Radio Herero and Radio Damara Nama. The introduction of Radio Kavango along the northeastern border with Angola followed in February 1976 in the Kwangali, Mbukushu and Gciriku languages.
In 1965, the pro-independence movement, the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), began broadcasting a one-hour radio programme from Tanzania on short wave known as The Namibian Hour. It later started broadcasting from Zambia. In 1974, it was renamed Voice of Namibia. By 1986, it was broadcasting from Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Zimbabwe, as well as from Tanzania and Zambia.
In May 1979 the SABC relinquished control of these services, when the South West African Broadcasting Corporation (SWABC), known in Afrikaans as Suidwes-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie (SWAUK), came into being. However, the SWABC retained technical personnel from the SABC, and a number of its were prepared at the SABC's studios in Johannesburg before being dispatched to Windhoek for transmission.
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