Category: Fiji

CBSI GEARS UP FOR GLOBAL POLICY FORUM

Sibc News - August 29, 2016

Central Bank Governor Denton Rarawa. Photo credit: SIBC. The Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) gears up to attend the Alliance for Financial Inclusion Global ... Read More

Climate Change

IMPLEMENTATION OF PARISH AGREEMENT DOMINATED SUVA TALKS

Sibc News - August 22, 2016

Joseph Ma'ahanua Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Trade. Photo credit: SIBC. Implementation of the Parish Agreement on Climate Change has been the centre ... Read More

Fiji

TOZAKA PRESENTED RAMSI REPORT AT FOREIGN LEADERS MEETING

Sibc News - August 17, 2016

Hon. Milner Tozaka, Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade MP for North Vella La Vella and MSG Chair. Photo credit: GCU. The Minister of ... Read More

Fiji

MSG LEADERS DEFERRED TALKS ON WEST PAPUA’s MSG APPLICATION

Sibc News - July 14, 2016

MSG logo. Photo credit: SIBC. Melanesian Spearhead Group Leaders have 'deferred' deliberations on the United Liberation Movement for West Papua's application for full membership, a ... Read More

Fiji

OUTGOING PIDF CHAIR CONFIDENT IN NEW CHAIR

Sibc News - July 14, 2016

Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama. Photo credit: www.sampsoniaway.org Fijian Prime Minister and outgoing Pacific Development Forum Chair, Voreqe Bainimarama has expressed confidence in Prime Minister ... Read More

Fiji

SOLO DOWN 0-1 TO FIJI

Sibc News - June 1, 2016

Solomon Islands flag. Photo credit: SIBC. And in Sports, the Solomon Islands National Men's Team went down by a goal to nil in their Group ... Read More

Fiji

FIJI’s POLICE COMMISSIONER LEFT AFTER DAY’s VISIT

Sibc News - April 21, 2016

Fiji Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho. Photo credit: Radio New Zealand International online. Fiji's Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho leaves the country today after a one-day visit ... 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.