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Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporations (EBC; ), now rebranded as ETV (stylized in all uppercase), is an Ethiopian government-owned public service broadcaster. It is headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is the country's oldest and largest broadcaster.

EBC was established by order of Emperor Haile Selassie and initially operated by Thomson, a British firm. It is fully owned by the Ethiopian government. Its programming includes news, sport, music and other entertainment. The majority of the programming is broadcast in Amharic, official languages of Ethiopia. Some news segments are broadcast in other languages, such as Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya, Afar, and English.

EBC has entertainment programs like ''Ethiopian Idol'', which features similar content to American got talent show ''American Idol''. In recent this days ETV Entertainment channel stars to broadcast the biggest and the newest entertainment show ''Ehud Bet'' (Amharic: እሑድ ቤት), Mulualem Taddesse, Michael Tamere and other young and prominent actors are working as the host of the show. In recent years, ETV has transmitted a few matches a week from European Football Leagues (Spanish La Liga and English Premier League), plus some international matches. EBC transmits its programmes on 4 satellite stations.

EBC has engaged in a continuous content reform leading under EBC towards content motto. Getnet Taddesse is the current CEO of EBC. Provided by Wikipedia