Category: Anniversaries

New $40 note to be introduced before independence anniversary.

Admin - June 25, 2018

Central Bank of Solomon Islands headquarters in Honiara. Photo: CBSI. The date for the launching and unveiling of the new forty-dollar note will be ... Read More

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WWII site Bloody Ridge to be declared national park

Admin - July 17, 2017

Bloody Ridge near Honiara. Photo: Terry Allen The Solomon Islands Government is set to declare the famous World War II site Bloody Ridge in Central ... Read More

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MAELANGA CONGRATULATED MALAYSIA ON 59th ANNIVERSARY

Sibc News - September 4, 2016

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RUAVATU MARKED ASSUMPTION OF MARY

Sibc News - August 16, 2016

The Ruavatu school billboard. Photo: Courtesy of panoramio.com Ruavatu Catholic Parish in Northeast Guadalcanal celebrated the feast day of the Assumption of Mary over the ... Read More

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SIIPHRAA SUPPORTED CALLS TO DEVELOP MALAITA PROVINCE

Sibc News - August 15, 2016

Malaita Provincial flag. Photo credit: www.crwflags.com The Solomon Islands Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Advocacy Association (SIIPHRAA) supports the call by the National Malaita Fundraising Committee ... Read More

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MALAITANS HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL: PM SOGAVARE

Sibc News - August 15, 2016

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare delivering his speech at the Malaita Second Appointed Day. Photo credit: OPMC. Malaitans have great potential to further contribute to the ... Read More

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GOV’T MINISTERS ATTENDED MAKIRA’s SECOND APPOINTED DAY

Sibc News - August 4, 2016

The Makira Ulawa Provincial flag. Photo credit: Wikimedia. Two Ministers of the Democratic Coalition for Change Government are in Kirakira to attend the Makira Ulawa ... 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.