Category: Emergency Responses

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

Agriculture

NDMO RECEIVED RECOVERY TOOLS FOR MAKIRA QUAKE

Sibc News - January 14, 2017

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry ... Read More

Communities

NDMO TO IMPROVE WATER SUPPLY FOR SHORTLANDS QUAKE VICTIMS

Sibc News - January 12, 2017

The Nila Habour in Shortland Islands. Photo ... Read More

Disaster

UNICEF CONTINUES TO SUPPORT MAKIRA QUAKE VICTIMS

Sibc News - January 4, 2017

UNICEF Logo. Photo credit: Pef-Net. UNICEF continues to support the current emergency response efforts to affected communities in Makira province with the provision of education, ... Read More

Cyclones

WEATHER EXPERTS IN HONIARA ON METEOROLOGY MEETING

Sibc News - August 29, 2016

Emergency Responses

INTERIM TASK FORCE FORMED TO DEAL WITH BURNED HOSPITAL

Sibc News - July 25, 2016

MPA for Ward 15 in Munda, Western Province Jane Tozaka. She was awarded the 2014 Women of Courage Award. Photo: Courtesy of veooz.com An interim ... Read More

Cyclones

PM SOGAVARE ASSURED FIJIAN PM ON SI’s ASSISTANCE

Sibc News - March 21, 2016

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. Photo credit: OPMC. Patron of the Solomon Islands for Fiji Nation-wide appeal and Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has assured ... 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.