Category: Communities

Land ownership affects climate change relocations

Sibc News - January 18, 2021

Director of the Climate Change Division Hudson Kauhiona The country’s plan to relocate communities threatened by sea level rise may face opposition from the very ... Read More

Church

SIEC Prepares for by-elections

Admin - September 14, 2020

Preparations are well underway for the North East Guadalcanal and Central Honiara constituencies by-election later this year. Chief Electoral Officer, Jane Waetara said, the Solomon ... Read More

Climate Change

Climate refugees; our sinking phenomenon

Admin - September 11, 2018

Part of the graveyard in Luaniua washed away by coastline intrusion. For many people around the world, the image of the Pacific is a ... Read More

Communities

School Election Project rolls out

Admin - August 29, 2017

A student casts her ballot paper during one of the practical sessions. The Solomon Islands Electoral Commission rolled out its School Election Project for students ... Read More

Communities

IRRIGILA COMMUNITY CONCLUDED FESTIVITIES

Sibc News - January 18, 2017

Festivities. Photo credit: Wikispaces. People of Irrigilla North Vella La Vella finally ended their Christmas and New Year celebration program over the weekend. The program ... Read More

Communities

BITA’AMA WOMEN CONCERNED FOR THEIR HEALTH

Sibc News - January 17, 2017

SIBC North Malaita stringer John Andrew Kiri. Photo credit: SIBC. Bita'ama women in North Malaita are concerned their health could be affected as the only ... Read More

Agriculture

DISASTER TEAM RETURNS 4TH FEBRUARY

Sibc News - January 16, 2017

Map of Makira Ulawa province. Photo credit: www.24point0.com The Livelihood Committee deployed to Makira Ulawa Province to conduct a detailed assessment of the impacts of ... 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.