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Vision Sustaible world-class public broadcaster providing world class services. Mission To educate inform, guide and entertain the public through the provision of great services. It aims to achieve and sustain comprehensive tiol coverage. Above all it aims to achieve a common carrier status must be realized. Brief on the Corporation ... See more Uganda Television and Radio Uganda the current Uganda Broadcasting Corporation was born in 1963 one year after Uganda’s independence. It’s main aim was to broadcast through both mediums to the whole country. After independence till the mid 1980’s Uganda was faced with a lot of economic hardships. As a result many institutions including the tiol broadcaster suffered a general deterioration. It is with this background that the Ugandan Government saw the need to restructure the former Uganda Television and Radio Uganda. As a result Parliament passed the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation Act that established the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation in 2005. This transformed the former UTV and Radio Uganda into the now existent Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. The Corporation started it’s activities on the 16th of November 2005. The main aims of the Corporation are to develop the former Radio Uganda and UTV into a public tiol broadcasting center of excellence, for the purpose of providing electronic media and consultancy services that educate and guide the public. It also aims at achieving and sustaining comprehensive tiol radio and television coverage. UBC still remains 100% owned by the Government although not 100% finced by it. The Corporation realizes it’s income from the sale of TV and Radio airtime and rental of it’s technical facilities. UBC’s move to attain a common carrier status will ensure issues of tiol importance transmitted as one so that other commercial broadcasters obtain their live link from UBC. Magement of UBC A Board of Directors governs Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. The daily magement of the Corporation is carried out by a Maging Director and the Corporation Secretary .The Magerial team coupled with experienced staff is commissioned to streamline the Corporation and put it on course to become an effective and more efficient public broadcaster in the short and long run. UBC Magement tries to balance the Corporation’s public mandate with the commercial interests. Main Activities In terms of it’s main activities; * The Corporation ensures the provision of radio and television broadcasting services and programmes that contribute to the social, economic development of the people of Uganda. * We are a medium that showcases the vision of the public. * We gather, alyze, store and dissemite information to the public. * In the future we aim to carry out sigl distribution as a common carrier. * UBC provides quality local programming and adapts foreign programming to the indigenous public. * We have established systems of accountability and ensure profitability in the running of the public broadcasting services. * We maintain a reasoble editorial independence and set exemplary tiol broadcasting standards. * UBC aims to provide electronic media and consultancy services that educate and guide the public. * We endeavor to be an efficient and self-sustaining Corporation at all times. * We aim to create a sustaible, comprehensive tiol radio and television coverage. * UBC has put in place some modern broadcasting equipment and good organizatiol structures that ensures our effectiveness. * The onus is on us to achieve and sustain reliable sigls. * Our provision of events and programmes are always accurate timely and reliable. * We now carry out activities synonymous with any world-renowned public broadcaster.

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