Benson Matengambiri Tembo, 71, is set to return to the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as Director General for a third time, succeeding the late Brian Banda in the role. Tembo currently chairs the MBC Board of Directors, having been appointed to the position by President Peter Mutharika earlier this year. He is now expected to […]
The Malawi chapter of the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) on Tuesday called on President Peter Mutharika to reverse his decision on the redeployment of Dr. Benson Tembo from Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) to the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA). Tembo was a Director General at MBC and has since been redeployed to MACRA […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) director general BensonTembo has been redeployed to Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) where he will be assuring the position of as “Technical Advisor on digital migration” with immediate effect. According to MBC , Tembo bid farewell to the top management officials on Friday, and said he would still be part of […]
Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture, Kondwani Nankhumwa has assured the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation of editorial independence and non-interference from government in its day to day work. Nnakhumwa said this Monday when he visited MBC’s Kwacha television studios and the broadcasting house at Chichiri in Blantyre. Said Nankhumwa: “I would like to assure that you […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is casting its hope on the yet to be debated national budget to save its face from the huge accumulated debt amounting to over K400 million. MBC has been operating without government subvention for almost seven years after opposition-dominated Parliament in 2007 cut funding to the public broadcaster over claims that […]
In a bid to stamp his authority the new Deputy Director General at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Aubrey Sumbuleta has brought in several changes at the public broadcaster by among several others putting several measures to control what is aired on both public radio and television. Soon after President Peter Mutharika came into power MBC promised to […]
Witch-hunting continues at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as political influences have made some reporters and broadcasters, to be deployed to other departments and others removed from daily news bulletin reading roaster on suspicions that they are not control freaks for ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The affected employees have since threatened to take up the […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has secured Brazil World Cup broadcasting rights which will give a chance for the station to cover all the games live on the television. MBC Director General Benson Tembo said the securing of the rights from Fifa would make the national broadcaster the official broadcaster in the country and no any […]
The High Court in Blantyre has granted an injunction to Malawi Broadcasting Cooperation (MBC) Director General Benson Tembo stopping government from sending him on forced leave. Tembo sought court relief after Evans Namanja, MBC board chairman directed his immediate leave in a letter on Friday. Namanja said the MBC boss has been sent packing for […]
Former director general of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), Bright Malopa, has challenged that government will have to abide by the court order to pay him K62million (about $156 000) for unfair dismissal, saying even at international court he will still get justice. Malopa will smile all the way to the bank as he becomes yet another […]
The MBC employees who on Wednesday last week held a vigil demanding their salaries had already pocketed part of their perks, Nyasa Times has learnt. The employees who were once redeployed to other government institution before being reinstated by the High Court, and had not been paid their wages since September last year, staged a […]
Newly appointed Director General for the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Dr Benson Tembo has said that he has an enormous task to transform the state broadcaster into a more reliable state broadcaster. Despite having the highest number of employees and best equipment in the country, MBC is currently facing stiff from private radio stations including […]
State controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation Television is so obsessed with the late President Bingu wa Mutharika that it carried his name in the 8pm news bulletin instead of Her Excellency Joyce Banda. One of the news bullets running down the screen as news reader Frank Kapesa read the bulletin read, “President Mutharika determined to restore […]