The Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC; Brazil Communication Company) is a Brazilian federal public media conglomerate. It was established on October 24, 2007, to provide public broadcasting services and manage federal television and several public radio stations, as well as communication services such as a public news agency and the EBC Portal.
The EBC includes the TV Brasil (a television station network), the Agência Brasil (the news agency), the Portal EBC (the news portal), the EBC Serviços (a division that produces A Voz do Brasil radio program for the Secretariat of Government of the Presidency of the Republic) and the National Radio Network (Rádio MEC AM, Rádio MEC FM, Rádio Nacional do Alto Solimões, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Rádio Nacional de Brasília AM, Rádio Nacional de Brasília FM, Rádio Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, among others).
History
The EBC was created by the Brazilian government on Thursday, 24 October 2007, when the Federal Decree No. 6.246 was published in the Diário Oficial da União.[3] The creation of the company was authorized on 10 October 2007, through the Provisional Measure No. 398, converted into the Federal Law No. 11.652 of 7 April 2008.[4] EBC Bylaws was approved on 10 December 2008, by means of the Federal Decree Number 6.689.