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SIG is committed to solving Philippine students visa/passport issues
The government is committed to solving visa and passport issues facing local students in the Philippine. A total of 305 locals are still in the Philip...
September 30, 2020
HEAVY PENALTIES NEEDED FOR ILLEGAL LOGGERS
September 29, 2020
Coronial Inquest into the Tasahe bomb blast; 2 deaths
September 24, 2020

Politics

September 19, 2020
PRC first Ambassador officially welcomed
"The storm has been weathered. We know how to steer the boat. It will only make this relationship stronger”.
September 18, 2020
Suidani respond to nine Malaita MPs
"They have seen fit to label my call for a referendum illegal as if they were the court."
September 17, 2020
“SUIDANI’s ACTIONS IRRESPONSIBLE”
The nine Malaita Members of Parliament within the DCGA government have condemned the continuous call by Malaita premier Daniel Suidani for a referendu...

COURT

45 years old man sentenced for abusing wife
A 45-year-old man was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment for domestic violence –physical abuse charges at the magistrate court this morning.&n...
September 24, 2020
Coronial Inquest into the Tasahe bomb blast; 2 deaths
September 24, 2020
Boso Acquitted from false rumor charges
September 1, 2020

FEATURE

UK retired soldier Honoured for payless service to SI
The Governor General, Sir David Vunagi has honoured a retired British Soldier, Major David Rankin-Hunt with the Cross of Solomon Islands medal for his...
October 14, 2019

SPORTS

SIFF set to conduct MA Youth Futsal course
The Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) will conduct a MA Youth Futsal Course next week. SIFF Futsal Development Officer Dickson Kadau confirme...
September 18, 2020
Burglars caught on CCTV camera under investigation
September 15, 2020
Guadalcanal teens shocked Firisua
August 22, 2020

What's happening at SIBC?

January 23, 2019
SIBC SPECIAL RATES FOR 2019 LONG TERM PACKAGES AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNIN...
Introducing ‘Stret Tok’
November 29, 2018

SIBC Multimedia

SIBC SPECIAL RATES FOR 2019 LONG TERM PACKAGES AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNIN...
January 23, 2019
SIBC Podcasts: Famili blo Hana-Tafi earns $5000 from Kumara
December 18, 2018
SIBC Podcasts: Famili blo Hana-Money comes
December 9, 2018

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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