MBC

The Martonian Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is a Martonian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation principally funded by the Martonian Government and publicly funded by nonprofit organizations. The MBC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable. Around a quarter of the MBC's revenue comes from its commercial subsidiary, MBC Global.

The corporation's headquarters, the MBC Center, are located in Lancard, Bancroft. With over 11,500 staff members in total as of June 2020, it is the one of the largest broadcasters in the world by number of employees. It owns and operates the MBC Radio and MBC Television services. All MBC-owned radio and television networks have had limited advertisement breaks, and all non-MBC advertisements are from funders of the company or the Martonian Government.

History
Throughout the 1940s, numerous attempts at commercial radio broadcasting were being launched; however, there were neither public nor nonprofit networks. As a result, on 1 June 1943, the Martonian Government established the Martonian Broadcasting Corporation, the country's first public broadcaster. It almost immediately launched a radio network, MBC Radio, consisting of eleven stations around the country, the first to launch being the capital's MBXB (98.4 FM). The company began its first attempt at television broadcasting on 2 August 1955, with the launch of ten MBC Television stations in major cities.

Logos
When the broadcaster launched in 1943, its logo was a black square with a rhombus inside, surrounded by a transparent outline. In 1963, the company replace the square with a four-way arrow, which got two facelifts: one in 1970 and another in 1975.

MBC Radio Media
MBC Radio Media is a division of the MBC which operates its radio services. Originally, it solely owned MBC Radio—a network of 25 radio stations available throughout Martonia via FM radio, each station serving a different quarter of a state (with the exception of Bancroft's MBXB-TV). The division was created in 2010, when the company created its first online radio service, MBC Audio, which initially consisted of 20 stations and has expanded to 54.

Live television and streaming media
The MBC owns the MBC Television service, which is comprised of 25 stations in the same markets as MBC Radio.

The broadcaster also owns the catch-up streaming service MBC Video, which the company initially launched in 2007 as video.mbc.com.

Commercial operations
The MBC's commercial operations are handled by MBC Studios, a commercial division founded in 1999 as MBC Enterprises. It was originally made to sell MBC's fiction television series on home video. It later began handling a few of the MBC's merchandising and licensing operations (not including the MBC iShop, which is owned by MBC Online). MBC Enterprises was renamed MBC Studios in 2008 after its international operations were moved to MBC Global.