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a n n i ve r s a r y years OF MBC TELEVISION 8 MAURITIUS BROADCASTING CORPORATION FEBRUARY 2012 issue no | 03 newsletter 8 February 1965 - 8 February 2012

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anniversary years

OF MBC TELEVISION

8

MAURITIUS BROADCASTING CORPORATION

FEBRUARY 2012issue no | 03

newsletter

8 February 1965 - 8 February 2012

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We have celebrated on 8th February, 2012 the 47th Anniversary of the MBC television.

When television was introduced in Mauritius in 1965, all programmes were presented from the MBC television Studio as at that time the MBC did not have the OB car for outdoor shooting. Programmes during that time were broadcasted in black and white. A few items of outdoor events were �lmed on 16 mm and were then processed in our �lm laboratory and shown during news bulletins.

The main task of the production team was to create programme conceptions and in order to meet this target; they had to get themselves involved in their work. When OB car became available and video tapes and sophisticated cameras became operational, the standard of television programmes was enhanced. Eventually colour television made its entry, 16/35 mm to video cassettes, captions to graphics, satellite installation, VCDs, DVDs, computerisation, internet and introduction of the digital system helped a lot .In the years which followed the utilisation of television was optimized, both the number of television channels and the number of local programmes have continuously been increasingToday the MBC is proud to broadcast 17 channels in all the spoken languages in Mauritius. The News Section has also made great progress and news in general has been given a new dimension.

During the �rst years of television, many viewers used to go in social centers’ and public gardens to watch their favorite �lms and programmes as only few household had a TV set. Gradually, television became a must in almost every home. Who would have thought forty seven years ago that all major events taking place around the world would be brought LIVE in our homes through the MBC.

MBC television has made this possible and on the occasion of its 47th anniversary, one cannot help recalling the father of the nation, Dr. Sir Seewoosagar Ramgoolam, who was the �rst to visualize the ben-e�cial e�ects which television will have on the coun-try at large. A special thought for all the directors, heads of departments and colleagues who have worked with dedication and a big thanks to our Director General, Mr Dhanjay Callikan and his team as well to all the MBC sta� for their hard and dedi-cated work for the success of the MBC.

LONG LIVE MAURITIUS LONG LIVE THE MBC

A.Salam AHMADI , P.M.S.M.

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TAGORE EXPO-MBC

R A B I N D R A N AT H

Painting inspired by Tagore poem ‘LOTUS’

On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying, and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the �ower remained unheeded. Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my dream and felt a sweet trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind. That vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to me that is was the eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion.I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that this perfect sweetness had blossomed in the depth of my own heart.

La MBC a rendu hommage à Rabindra-nath Tagore pendant le mois d'Octobre – Un mois dédié au Prix Nobel de la Littéra-ture.    Une 40aine de tableaux étaient exposés dans les locaux de la MBC.  Des œuvres réalisées par les artistes Mauriciens et Indiens de Shantineketan. Cette exposi-tion faisait partie d'une série de présenta-tions dans le cadre du 150 ème anniver-saire de la naissance de Rabindranath Tagore.  L'invité de cet évènement, Sharmila Roy  étudiante de Shantiniketan. 

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Le 28 novembre 2011 – Visite du Vice Ministre du Commerce de la République Populaire de Chine.M. Jiang Yaoping et sa délégation ont été accueillis par le directeur général, M. Dhanjay Callikan, et les autres membres de la direction.  Les discussions entre les deux parties ont porté sur le renforcement des relations entre la station nationale et le gouvernement chinois.

Le 3 décembre 2011 – Visite des personnes handicapées à la station nationale de radio télévision  dans le cadre de la journée mondiale des handicapés.

Le 23 Octobre 2011 – Visite du Haut Com-missaire de l'Inde, Shri T. P. Seetharam à la MBC. Ce dernier a été accueilli par la direc-tion.  Lors des discussions, il a surtout été question de la collaboration entre la Grande Péninsule et Maurice dans le domaine de l'audio-visuel.

Le 6 Septembre 2011 - Visite d'une déléga-tion du Ministère du Commerce de la République Populaire de Chine à la MBC.  Des entretiens ont eu lieu avec la direction de la Corporation et parmi les sujets abor-dés �guraient le renforcement de la coo-pération entre la MBC et les autorités chinoises et l'accord de maintenance prévu dans le cadre de la construction du bâti-ment.

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MBC  STAR 2011La compétition ' MBC Star 2011' organisée par la Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation a connu un franc succès en 2011. C’est toute l'équipe de la MBC qui a travaillé d'arrache-pied pour assurer le bon déroulement de ce concours réparti en 10 catégories, notamment  Bhojpuri, Chinois, Enfants, Ghazal, Hindoustani, Marathi, Occidentale, Séga, Tamil, Telugu. Notons que le Ghazal et le Bhojpuri sont venus s'ajouter aux autres catégories en 2011.  

Ci-dessous la liste des gagnants de MBC Star 2011 par catégorie :CATEGORIE

TELUGU1er PRIX CATEGORIE 1er PRIX

ERRIAH Vanesha Valsada

TAMIL CHADIEN Moorganaden

MARATHI BABBEA Manisha

MANDARIN Xiao Juan CHUE SHOW PUN

GHAZAL

ENFANTSBHOJPURIHINDUSTANIOCCIDENTALESEGASOOBIAH Abdool Amid

VINCENT Emilie CHITRA Meetooah CHUNDY Dayanand

BORDELAIS Gerard JEAN LOUIS Yannick Paul

MINI FEVER 2011– 2012

La grande �nale du concours Summertime Mini Dance Fever s’est tenue le dimanche 15 Janvier au Mahatma Gandhi Insti-tute à Moka…Pour la �nale, 12 �nalistes étaient en lice et ils ont donné le meilleur d’eux-mêmes….Les enfants ont démontré leur talent et ont conquis plus d’un sur scène,  le choix du jury s’est porté sur les Kathak Angels qui sont montées sur la plus haute marche du podium.Rasigal Permaloo a  remporté la deuxième place et la prestation de Mahima Goomany lui a valu la 3ème place. 600 participants ont été  enregistrés au concours en 2011 très prisé par les mauriciens.

1er PRIX KATHAK ANGELS

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BEST FM celebrated its first anniversary with a spec-tacular event. “The BEST FM Gala Nite” on the 09th October at I.G.C.I.C which has been a platform for our Rjs to show their multiple talents. From singing, mimicry to dancing The BEST FM Gala Nite has been a tremendous success. The audience and viewers witnessed a mind blowing Lazer show for the first time for an oriental production. Moreover it was on that particular day that BEST FM launched the Best Fm song which is again a premiere for a Radio on the Mauritian Market.

Best Fm celebrated the Christmas Magic with its fans all across the island. In this context Best Fm Rjs together with Santa Claus went on a Xmas Parade on the 24th of December. Some 2000 toys were distrib-uted in the four corners of the island to bring a smile on the children’s face. What would be December without a selection of the Best Songs of the year? Best Fm organised on the 31st of December at Riverside Complex, Riviere Du Rempart the Best Songs of the Year 2011 with gifts, games and plenty of Music. Teri Meri from the movie Bodyguard was elected Best song of the year in front of Chammak Chalo from “Ra One” and Ooh lala ooh lala from the Movie “The Dirty Picture”.

To kick start the year 2012 with the fist MBC produc-tion, MBC Radio organized the MBC Music Awards 2011 Live in the Studio A. A stepping stone for Local artists career in the Bhojpuri category and the Creole category. The winners were selected through 40% of public votes and 60% from the Jury made of profes-sionals in the Music Industry. The categories were broken down in Best Album, Best Artist, Best Author/Composer and the Special Jury Award.

The Bhojpuri nite on the 18th of December organized at triolet aimed at providing the opportunity to many upcoming artists of different regions of the country. Child artists were provided a platform to show their talent, both in the form of songs and dance. The Bhojpuri Nite was a mix of revised traditional bhojpuri songs and the best selection available popu-lar Bhojpuri songs, also for the first time remixed version of Bhojpuri songs performed live.

This was a major attraction for youngsters. The con-cert was a “succès populaire” attended by some 6000 bhojpuri fans. Artists and audience highly appreci-ated the program and they requested such programs to be organized on a regular basis as it gave another dimension to Bhojpuri songs.

BEST FM was at Belle Mare Beach for a big premiere, The Best Fm Radio Crochet on the 11th of December where we discovered a whole bunch of talented participants. One talent after the other performed on stage, from singing songs of the Golden era to danc-ing the latest bollywood songs in front of an audience of at least 1500 persons.

BEST FM has been present on the Mauritian Market quite often. The year 2011 was full of beautiful emotions shared with the audience,

the fans throughout the island.

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On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying, and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the �ower remained unheeded. Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my dream and felt a sweet trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind. That vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to me that is was the eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion.I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that this perfect sweetness had blossomed in the depth of my own heart.

Nowadays more and more organizations are realizing the advantages of taking their staff away on an outing. It’s a means of rewarding them for their hard work and loyalty. In line in creating healthy relationships and team building among his staff, Mr G.Deena , the Acting Manager Financial Operations took the initiative of organizing an outing at the Adventure Park at Chamarel on Saturday 12th November 2011. This one day outing has proved to be a great success.Mr G. Deena says “putting the staff together for a one day picnic gives them the opportunity to interact, the employees have enjoy each other's company thus forgetting the pressure of work, it was also a golden opportunity for them to forge new relationships. With much emotion, Mr G. Deena thanked the MBC Welfare Committee and he added  “it is the first time I am organizing such an outing, I can say it has helped in encouraging a more stable and productive working environment in my department. I am now planning to take my staff on outings more often; I will seize the opportunity to encourage the Head of Departments of other sections to do same.”

As work benefits well-being, staff outing benefits team building!

After their good performance in the tournament organised by the FederationMauricienne des Sports Corporatifs (FMSC) in July 2011, they have done itagain.Congrats to Messrs. S.S. Ramdawon and R.Sooben for their performance thistime in the Open Badminton Tournament orgainsed by the Mauritius BadmintonAssociation held in December 2011.

1. Mr. SOOBEN - Gold Medal ( Men’s Single, Men’s Double - above 55 years)

2. Mr. RAMDAWON - Bronze Medal ( Men’s Single, Men’s Double - above 45 years)

BADMINTON

CONGRATS TO BOTH FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE

WINNERS

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Moment of sharing and team spirit at the MBC for the end of the end of year lunch.

It was the �rst big gathering for all the employees at the headquaters of theMauritius Broadcasting House.“ ’’

Held on Wednesday28th December 2011

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Congratulations !Congratulations !

FAREWELLMr M.A Nusrally, Senior Technical Producer has retired with effect from 08 November 2011.Mrs M. Aungraheeta, Chief Traffic has retired with effect from 20 November 2011.Mr P. Ramburn, Driver/ Handyworker has retired with effect from 15 January 2012.

Mrs P. Ramphul- Chadee, Clerk Word Processing Operator,HR Department,for her new baby girl on 29 November 2011. Mr Rama Armoogum, Engineer/ Sr Engineer, for his new baby boy on 24 January 2012.

Shashi Dhookun, Sr Producer who has successfully completed a BA in Hindi in July 2011.Madhvee Subramanien, Administative Officer has successfully completed her Master in Business Administration , specialisation in Human Resource Management in September 2011.

Mr Mohammed Waseem SUMTALEE, Security Officer, got married on 27 November 2011.Ms Ambigaye RAMASAMI, Security Officer, got married on 04 December 2011.Mr Madev SOOCKEEA, Driver/ Handyworker, got married on 29 January 2012.

Mr SUREN DAGAH, Radio & TV Attendant passed away on 01 JANUARY 2012

Mr YVON BRULECOEURProducer passed away on26 January 2012

PARENTS OF NEW BORN BABIES

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

We wish them a peaceful retirement.

Congratulation to our colleagues and their spouses for their newly born babies.

We congratulate them for their achievements.

We wish them all the best and a happy married life.

We pray for their soul to rest in peace and convey oursincere condolences to the aggrieved parents

The MBC has lost two of its employees :OBITUARY

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The Welfare Committee of the MBC proudlyannounces its staff that the Yoga classes are starting as from 1st March 2012.

Programme: Tuesdays: 12.00 - 13.00Thursdays: 12.00 - 13.00

Venue: 4th Floor (Room 4001)

Mauritius Broadcasting CorporationRoyal Road, Moka.Tel: 402 8000http: www.mbcradio.tv

Quotes of the Day“ We learn wisdom from failure much more than fromsuccess. We often discover what will do, by findingout what will not do; and probably he who nevermade a mistake never made a discovery.’’

“ Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do nowand do it.’’

Samuel Smiles

William Durant

The Bhojpuri nite on the 18th of December organized at triolet aimed at providing the opportunity to many upcoming artists of different regions of the country. Child artists were provided a platform to show their talent, both in the form of songs and dance. The Bhojpuri Nite was a mix of revised traditional bhojpuri songs and the best selection available popu-lar Bhojpuri songs, also for the first time remixed version of Bhojpuri songs performed live.

This was a major attraction for youngsters. The con-cert was a “succès populaire” attended by some 6000 bhojpuri fans. Artists and audience highly appreci-ated the program and they requested such programs to be organized on a regular basis as it gave another dimension to Bhojpuri songs.

Editorial Team

Sheila PUTTY (Mrs)Madhvi BISSESSUR (Mrs)Luxmi SAMBOO (Mrs)Praveena SALAYE (Miss)

Acknowledgement

Tristan CERCLAYBina PARMESSA (Mrs)Praneeta DOOMUN (Mrs)Meera RAMA (Mrs)Cader BEEKAWOO

Graphics Layout

Anooj RAMSURRUNRajesh HEERAMUNVikash HOSANEERoshan TUHALOO