Empresa Brasil de Comunicação

The ''Empresa Brasil de Comunicação'' (EBC; Brazil Communication Company) is a Brazilian public broadcasting state-owned company, created in 2007. The corporation is responsible for the content and management of TV Brasil, eight EBC radio stations (Rádio Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Rádio Nacional AM de Brasília, Rádio Nacional FM de Brasília, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Rádio Nacional do Alto Solimões, Rádio MEC AM do Rio de Janeiro, Rádio MEC FM do Rio de Janeiro, e Rádio MEC AM de Brasília), the news agency Agência Brasil, audio news agency Radioagência Nacional and the EBC Portal. As part of the services provided by the holding, the EBC is responsible for the government's official channel TV NBR, and the radio program A Voz do Brasil.

The EBC is currently headed by Glen Lopes, a President Director appointed by the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2020. The previous Director-President for the EBC, Ricardo Melo, was dismissed from its functions by then Acting President of Brazil, Michel Temer, and resorted to an appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing that the law which created the EBC stated that its Director-President shall remain in its functions for four consecutive years and, as such, could not be dismissed. In June, Supreme Justice Dias Toffoli granted a primary injunction determining that Melo ought to return to its functions as Director-President. The same judge, Dias Toffoli, revoked his decision on 8 September 2016, and decided that Laerte Rímoli had the right to remain on the position of director-president. Provided by Wikipedia