BBC Monitoring observes that state broadcaster Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS, also known by its call letters ELBC) has a website at www.liberiabroadcastingsystem.com.
The website includes news and weather in text format, and a detailed “About Us” section. There is also a full programme guide for Radio Liberia, indicating that it is on air daily at 0445-2400 local time (equivalent to gmt), broadcasting on 99.9 MHz FM, covering Monrovia and the surrounding area.
According to the latest World Radio TV Handbook, although not mentioned on the website, Radio Liberia also shares a transmitter with the BBC African Service on 91.7 MHz.
LBS’s shortwave and mediumwave radio transmitters and the television infrastructure were destroyed in the recent civil wars, but there are plans to install FM transmitters throughout the country, and to restore a television service for the capital and environs.
(Source: BBC Monitoring research 1 Jan 07/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
