The Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is the public broadcaster

Public broadcasting

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 of the Republic of Mauritius

Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

, formed on June 8, 1964. Its funding comes from the levying of a television licence

Television licence

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 fee (60%) and commercials (40%) . However, the amount of funding received from commercials has come under pressure since the introduction of private commercial broadcasters in 2002 . Its headquarters were found in Curepipe until 2011, where it was transferred to Moka near the Mahatma Gandhi Institute.

MBC's television network currently consists of three analog channels, MBC1, MBC2 and MBC3, as well as six digital channels, MBCDigital1, MBCDigital2, MBCDigital3, MBCDigital4, MBCDigital5 and MBCDigital6.