Liberia Broadcasting System

Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS)

Type	Broadcast radio network Former broadcast television network
Country	Liberia
Availability	Nationwide
Owner	Government of Liberia
Launch date	January 1, 1960 (radio) January 1, 1964 (television)
Dissolved	1990 (television)
Former names	Eternal Love Broadcasting System Liberia Broadcasting Corporation
Callsign meaning	Liberia Broadcasting System
Former callsigns	ELBS LBC

The Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) is a state-owned radio network in Liberia. Founded as the Eternal Love Broadcasting Corporation in 1960, the network was owned and operated by Rediffusion, London until 1968, when management passed to the Government of Liberia. The network began broadcasting television as the Liberia Broadcasting Corporation in 1964. Following the 1980 coup d’état, the newly formed People's Redemption Council gave the network its current name. As a result of the First Liberian Civil War, the company ceased broadcasting in 1990, and the network's premises were heavily damaged by war and looters over the next seven years.^[1]

Following the end of the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003, the network began providing radio broadcasts, though the lack of proper equipment limited the broadcasts to a sixty-mile radius around Monrovia. In 2008, the Chinese government installed a new 10 kW FM transmitter, along with several secondary transmitters throughout the country, which extended the network nationwide.^[2] Additionally, there are plans to reestablish a television service for the Monrovia area, in the beginning, with plans to extend it nationwide.

References

1. "ELBC - A Brief History: An Overview Of The Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) Past, Present and Future". Liberia Broadcasting System. 2007. Archived from the original on October 9, 2007.
2. "Liberian Broadcasting System goes nationwide with Chinese help". Media Network. Radio Netherlands Worldwide. November 20, 2008.