South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation

South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation
Company type	Statutory corporation
Industry	Mass media
Genre	News and current Affairs
Founded	18 December 2010
Headquarters	Juba, South Sudan
Area served	South Sudan
Key people	Moyiga Nduru (Director of TV sector); Suzan Alphonse (Director of Radio Sector); James Nyak Riek (Director for Programs); Mustafa Samson (Director for Operations); Pitia Loku (Director for Administration and Finance); Francis Duku Abe (Head of News and Current Affairs Department); Rejoice Tio Samson (Head of English News & Chief Editor); Mohammad Desaram (Head of Arabic News & Chief Editor); Garang John Deng (Assignment Editor);
Products	Television & Radio broadcasting;
Production output	News, Public Affairs, Light Entertainment, Sport, Religion & Education
Services	SSBC TV; South Sudan Radio;
Owner	South Sudan Government (Ministry of Information, Communication Technology and Postal Services)
Number of employees	500+

The South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) is a national public service broadcaster in South Sudan. SSBC provides radio stations (AM/FM) as well as television broadcasts through its VHF/UHF analogue transmitters in Juba. It broadcasts its radio and television services via satellite and can be viewed from many places in the world through the Badr 4, Intelsat 19 and Galaxy 19 satellites.^[1]

SSBC's headquarters are in central Juba, where it has its studios, television/FM transmitters, satellite uplink and mast. It also leases facilities to international broadcasters such as the BBC World Service and Radio France.

In 2012 the Government of South Sudan and Japan International Corporation Agency signed a six years $6 Million deal to boost the development of the government media house.^{[citation needed]} In 2018, China announced plans to spend $15Mil USD on developing a new state-of-art studio and also training employees.^[2]