MBC

The Mantralian Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is a Mantralian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation principally funded by the Mantralian 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 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 Mantralian Government.

Origins
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 Mantralian Government established the Mantralian 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 MBAN (98.4 FM).