The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation is Cyprus' public broadcasting service, transmitting island-wide on four radio and three television channels.

The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation is a non-profit organization that utilises its entire income for the promotion of its main mission: the objective provision of information, culture and entertainment for the people of Cyprus.

The CyBC began life in 1953 as the Cyprus Broadcasting Service transmitting on one radio channel. It began television broadcasts three years later and became a Corporation in 1960 when the island gained independence from Britain.
The first TV programme in Cyprus was transmitted during the British Colonial Era, in October 1957, when the station was known as the “Cyprus Radio Service”. During this period, its output was limited to a three-hour transmission, twice a week.

Ιn 1959 Cyprus Broadcasting Service changed its name to Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation and since then functions as a semi-governmental organisation. At the beginning of the island’s independence, CyBC television served the objectives and needs of the newly-founded member state of the United Nations. The history of CyBC television reflects the struggle of the Republic of Cyprus and its people.

The hours and days of transmission gradually increased, and since December 1st 1968, programmes have been transmitted on a daily basis. The first televised News Bulletin was introduced in February 1968. In 1982, transmission switched from black-and-white to colour (SECAM standard system) and from September 1991 to PAL (colour standard system).
A second television channel, CyBC TWO, was launched in 1992, at the same time as commercial television stations began operating.
Today, CyBC TV plans and schedules its programmes according to its national and social mission and at the same time it promotes Cyprus all over the world. Both of CyBC’s television channels transmit daily, on a 24-hour basis. An enthusiastic member of the international broadcasting community, we belong to most major organisation including the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Broadcasting Organisation of Non-Aligned Countries (BONAC) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation (CBA). The CyBC has been a regular contributor to the CNN World Report since its inception in the late '80s and in 1993 became a founding member of the European television news channel, Euronews, to which we send regular programme contributions.

The CyBC was first linked to the Eurovision satellite in 1980 for live transmission from the Hague of the Eurovision Song Contest, to which we now send a participant every year.

We also broadcast via satellite and take part in the Eurovision Young Musicians' and Young Dancers' Contests.
Satellite is a lifeline to newsroom throughout the world. The CyBC newsroom takes daily feeds from the EBU for foreign stories to fill six television news bulletins a day, including the main half hour bulletin of the evening.

Foreign news agencies and film crews are frequent visitors to the CyBC for satellite feeds and links all over the world. We also provide foreign networks with state-of-the-art radio and television recording and tape editing facilities on site at all major international conference held on the island.