Category: Entertainment

Jaro Local wins International award

Admin - May 24, 2019

Jaro Local displaying his award. Photo: Jaro Local FB page. Solomon Islands very own Jeremy Saeni, known by his stage-name 'Jaro Local' has won the ... Read More

Entertainment

Third time’s the charm for 2018 Solo Icon

Admin - December 11, 2018

Solo Icon 2018 winner Simon Kosa Solo Icon has crowned its 2018 winner Sunday night. Simon Kosa, 23 from Western and Malaita Province took home ... Read More

Arts and Culture

‘We the Voyagers,’ first screening tomorrow

Admin - October 25, 2018

A Polynesian Voyaging canoe.Photo: Kamehameha schools The Vaka Taumako Project is tomorrow night screening the first of a three part film called 'We, the Voyagers: ... Read More

Business

Young business entrepreneurs breaking grounds

Admin - October 23, 2018

Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela with YECSI President Millicent Barty. 60 young business entrepreneurs in the country are currently employing about 400 Solomon Islanders. Prime Minister ... Read More

Entertainment

Politics, youth and music: A young Solomon Islander’s view

admin - August 2, 2018

Floyd Manata. Floyd Manata 35, is a graduate teacher living in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea for around twenty years. He is from Malaita Province, ... Read More

Entertainment

Independence celebrations brought to NRH Patients

Admin - July 6, 2018

Sunset band performing at the Swing to the Strings event. Patients at the National Referral Hospital, NRH, have been encouraged to be part of today's ... Read More

Artists

Jahboy set to make historic reggae tour

Admin - June 15, 2018

Jahboy. Local reggae sensation, Kirwan Hatigeva, famously known as 'Jahboy', is set to make a historic performance at the 'One Love Reggae' festival in ... 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.