Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation

Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation

• Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου (Greek)
• Kıbrıs Radyo Yayın Kurumu (Turkish)

Type	Broadcast radio and television
Country	Cyprus
Availability	Europe, North America and Australia
Owner	Republic of Cyprus
Key people	Michalis P. Michael, Chairman Thanasis Tsokos, Director General
Launch date	4 October 1953; 71 years ago (4 October 1953) (radio) 1 October 1957; 67 years ago (1 October 1957) (television)
Former names	Cyprus Broadcasting Service (1953–1959)
Official website	rik.cy

Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (Greek: Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου, romanized: Radiofonikó Ídryma Kýprou; Turkish: Kıbrıs Radyo Yayın Kurumu), or CyBC (Greek: ΡΙΚ, romanized: RIK; Turkish: KRYK), is Cyprus' public broadcasting service. It transmits island-wide on four radio and two domestic television channels, and uses one satellite channel for the Cypriot diaspora. It also transmits on a separate high definition channel.

CyBC is a public broadcaster, meaning it is non profit and thus has no shareholders.

CyBC was partially funded by a tax on electric bills, a practice which ended on 1 July 2000;^[1] CyBC is currently funded by the state budget. The amount of the tax was dependent on the size of the home and, as a hypothecated tax for public television, was similar in principle to the television licence systems in other countries. The corporation is a member of the international broadcasting community, belonging to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Broadcasting Organisation of Non-Aligned Countries (BONAC) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA).