Malawi Broadcasting Corporation

Radio was introduced to Malawi, then the British colony of Nyasaland, in 1941, when the Information Department of the government of neighbouring Northern Rhodesia, another British colony, installed a 300-watt transmitter in its capital, Lusaka, to provide a service to all African citizens of the Rhodesian region, Radio Lusaka, in both English and local African languages. Since Northern Rhodesia could not afford such a specialist service alone, the administrators of Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were soon persuaded to share the costs, while the British government agreed to provide share capital; thus the Central African Broadcasting Station (CABS) was born.

In 1953 the United Kingdom created the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland with Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe) as its capital; The Southern Rhodesian Broadcasting Service, which operated in Southern Rhodesia for European listeners, was subsequently renamed the "Federal Broadcasting Service" (FBS).

In 1958 FBS and CABS formed the Federal Broadcasting Corporation (FBC).

MBC was founded in 1964 empowered by an act of parliament. It has two radio stations, Radio 1 and Radio 2, and transmits on FM, Medium Wave and Shortwave frequencies and Online and MBC 2 Malawi.

It also runs the national television station, Television Malawi.

Its headquarters is in Blantyre.

The MBC provided the maintenance for the relays of the BBC World Service in the country for BBC after 2001.

In 2021 the Malawi Human Rights Commission required the MBC to pay compensation after Stella Twea found that the former CEO, Aubrey Sumbuleta, had sexually harassed women staff members. Lawyer Sarai Chisala said that the Corporation itself was liable because they had known about the problem, but they had allowed the abuse to continue.