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Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS)
Type
| Broadcast
radio network
and
television network
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Country
| Liberia
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Availability
| Nationwide
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Owner
| Government of Liberia
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Launch date
| January 1, 1960
(
1960-01-01
)
(radio)
January 1, 1964
(
1964-01-01
)
(television)
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Former names
| Liberia Broadcasting Corporation
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Callsign meaning
| L
iberia
B
roadcasting
S
ystem
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Former callsigns
| ELBS
LBC
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Official website
| elbcradio
.com
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The
Liberia Broadcasting System
(
LBS
) is a state-owned
radio
and
television network
in
Liberia
. Founded as a corporation in 1960, the network was owned and operated by
Rediffusion
until 1968, when management passed to the
Government of Liberia
. The network began broadcasting television as the Liberia Broadcasting Corporation in January 1964 over channel 6.
[1]
Following the
1980 coup d’etat
, the newly formed
People's Redemption Council
gave the network its current name. As a result of the
First Liberian Civil War
, the company briefly ceased broadcasting in 1990, because the network's premises were heavily damaged by war and looters over the next seven years.
[2]
The station later continued to broadcast all through the war after its home in Paynesville, outside Monrovia became inaccessible from Monrovia. Upon the arrival of the West African peace keeping mission, ECOMOG, to Liberia in 1990, The Force provided a space for LBS to continue its broadcast at the Monrovia Free Zone, on the Bushroad Island, where the Peace Keepers were based. The station later moved to the Ducor Continental Hotel on upper broad street in central Monrovia where LBS operated until 1998 (following the election and inauguration of Charles Taylor as president of Liberia) when it moved back to Paynesville.
The network continue to provide radio broadcasts, though the lack of proper equipment limited the broadcasts to a sixty-mile radius around
Monrovia
. In 2008, the
Chinese government
installed a new 10 kW FM transmitter, along with several secondary transmitters throughout the country, which extended the network nationwide.
[3]
Additionally, the network re-established its television service, the
Liberia National Television
for the Monrovia area with plans to extend it nationwide.
See also
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edit
]
References
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edit
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members
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