The Development of Radio Broadcasting in Nigeria, West Africa Page: 88
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broadcasting systems. NBC was created by the 1956 Ordinance.
The regional broadcasting systems were made possible by the
provision included in the 1954 constitution that guaranteed
regional autonomy in Nigerian broadcasting and were created
by regional legislation.
NBC resembles its model, the British Broadcasting Corpor-
ation (BBC), in many ways. Similar to BBC, NBC is licensed
by the Posts and Telegraphs Department. NBC has a Board of
Governors that makes policy and a Director General who, as
operating head of the corporation, carries out policy. And
in the tradition of the BBC, although a government chartered
corporation, NBC seems to enjoy freedom from overt government
control of programming. The regional systems are administered
either directly as agencies of the regional governments, or
indirectly, as corporations chartered by the regional govern-
ments. They, too, seem to be free of government program
control. However, programming at both levels is restricted
ly definition; NBC must program for the Federation of Nigeria,
the regional systems for the individual states that make up
the Federation.
So, programming of NBC is designed to be national and
nonpartisan (relative to the states). NBC's programming is
noncommercial and consists primarily of entertainment, news,
and information. All programming is broadcast in English;
additionally, the news is repeated in a number of tribal
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Adejunmobi, Jonathan Adegoke. The Development of Radio Broadcasting in Nigeria, West Africa, thesis, December 1974; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc663486/m1/92/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .