February, 2016 | SIBC

CORE AGENT ACCELERATORS WORKSHOP IN HONIARA

CBSI, Honiara City, Regional, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines, Workshops

February 1, 2016

A Regional workshop on Core Agent Network Accelerators has been officially opened in Honiara today. Representatives of participating banks and mobile ...

AUSTRALIAN PRINCESS LEFT HONIARA, TOURIST SETBACKS

Government, Honiara City, Infrastructure, People, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines, Tourism

February 1, 2016

Australian Sea Princess has left yesterday after its one day visit to the Solomon Islands. Carrying 1,983 passengers and about 850 crew members, Sea P...

RSIPF APPOINTS TWO FEMALE PPC OFFICERS

Police, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines

February 1, 2016

Two female police officers have been appointed Provincial Police Commanders (PPC). RAMSI Public Affairs and Media Manager, Johnson Honimae told the Ta...

MEDICAL WORKERS’ SECURITY A CONCERN AT NRH

Healthcare, Security, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines

February 1, 2016

The security of medical practitioners serving at the National Referral Hospital has again been questioned after a nurse was attacked and stabbed while...

CATECHIST TRAINING AT AVU’AVU

Church, Guadalcanal Province, People, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines

February 1, 2016

Catechists from 20 local churches recently completed a successful three day Post-training at the Roman Catholic Avu’avu Parish, South-East Guada...

KURUKURU TO FIJI FOR OFC CHAMPIONSHIP CHALLENGE

Fiji, OFC, Solomon Islands, Sports, Top Headlines

February 1, 2016

In sports, the Solomon Islands National Futsal Squad, Kurukuru will fly over to Fiji this week ahead of the OFC Championship and the FIFA Futsal World...

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History

The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation was established by an Act of Parliament - The Broadcasting Ordinance 1976. It was established to provide a high quality broadcasting service, by radio, of a wide range of programs for the information, education and entertainment of all people living in the sovereign borders of the Independent State of Solomon Islands.

Radio broadcasting was established by US military forces in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP) during World War Two. In 1944, the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) developed small, mediumwave stations at Lunga on Guadalcanal and Munda, New Georgia. These were designed to provide information and entertainment to the hundreds of thousands of US service personnel then based in the BSIP. The stations were part of the Mosquito Network, a loose network of similar AFRS stations stretching through the South-West Pacific, from Bougainville in the north to Auckland in the south, and including outlets in Espiritu Santo and Noumea.

As the Pacific war moved northwards, the AFRS stations closed and BSIP listeners returned to tuning to broadcast programmes from Australia or further afield for entertainment and information. In 1946, a rudimentary weekly half hour of news and service bulletins was established by the BSIP Administration. The service was transmitted from Honiara on regular inter-island radio frequencies using Government transmission equipment and soon developed a regular following.

By 1952, the broadcasts were on a much stronger footing and the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service (SIBS), an arm of the Government, was established. In 1976, new legislation converted the SIBS into the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC), a totally independent public service broadcaster charged with providing national radio coverage and a full range of news, educational and entertainment services.

For more on the history of radio in Solomon Islands click here: SIBC Stations

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