Abstract

• Public Service Broadcasting organizations play a crucial role in ensuring the public’s right to receive a wide diversity of information and ideas in a State. These are nonprofit organizations that distribute programming to the nation’s public television and radio stations. In Myanmar, radio services first came on air in 1936 and regular programming by Bama Athan channel began in 1946. Television service was first introduced in 1979 and MRTV was first launched in 1980. Nowadays, there are public TV channels, private channels and organizational channels. Then, there are a lot of radio channels owned by public as well as private. Their programmes have been designed to support for promotion of health conditions, non-formal education, cultural and heritages, civic education and agricultural production and preservation. Besides, these channels have to produce timely about the rightful information for upcoming natural disasters, current news for education, weather news, health care and spread disease, political issues and so on. The people in distant rural areas rely on the public TV channels and radio channels. Whereas Myanmar is now building to real democracy and freedom of media going to gradually improve in the process of national development. In this regard, the Television and Broadcasting Law is enacted in 2015. The law provided to transform the state-owned media as public service broadcasting and the freedom of expression and freedom to give/take right information. But, actually, it cannot be implemented yet. Unless the Broadcasting organizations produce the important news freely, these could not be the reliable sources for public rights. Especially, the public could not get the procedural rights and substantive rights from broadcasting. The paper aims to highlight the importance of the role of broadcasting organizations in country’s development process. The paper leads the policy recommendations for broadcasting channels on the rights of social, economic, culture and politics.