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PIF Member countries|Photo credit ABC Radio Australia The decision to quit the Pacific Islands Forum by the five Micronesian countries could potentially undermine Padific diplomacy. Director of the Center of Pacific Islands Studies at the Manoa University, Hawaii, Dr. Tarcicus Kabutalaka told a 531pi radio interview. “Often times, it would ... Read More

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Australian High Commissioner officially visited PM Sogavare

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Australian High Commissioner Dr. Lachlan Strahan's official meeting with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare|Photo by GCU The Australia and Solomon Islands have openly deliberated on issues of common interest for both countries. This was made possible during the Australian High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, Dr. Lachlan Strahan's first official courtesy visit ... Read More

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SIFF set to conduct MA Youth Futsal course

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SIFF Futsal Development Officer Dickson KadauCredit: SIFF The Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) will conduct a MA Youth Futsal Course next week. SIFF Futsal Development Officer Dickson Kadau confirmed to SIBC Sports. Mr Kadau said, those eligible to attend the course are teachers who participated in the previous Bulk Shop ... Read More

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SIBC Podcasts: Famili blo Hana-Tafi earns $5000 from Kumara

SIBC MultimediaAdmin - December 18, 2018 0

Heaps of potato or kumara on display Tafi has not received all of his money yet from his potato harvests. The hospital will give his ... Read More

SIBC Podcasts: Famili blo Hana-Money comes

SIBC MultimediaAdmin - December 9, 2018 0

Garden of Taro in the Malaita Outer Islands. Tafi receives money from his harvests. What will he do with the money? Read More

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.