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CDF WILL BE ACCESSIBLE ONLY BY CDP’s and CP’s IN 2014

January 23, 2014

Members of Parliament will now have to provide their Constituency Development Plans(CDP) and Constituency Profiles (CP) before they can access Constit...

PM LILO ANNOUNCED BIG DEVELOPMENT PLANS

Government, Top Headlines

January 23, 2014

The Prime Minister has announced big plans for health and communications, and foreign relations this year – including an independent national ho...

PRIME MINISTER LILO ANNOUNCED 2014 PRIORITIES

Government, Politics, Top Headlines

January 22, 2014

Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says his Government wants a clean and effective election this year. Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo made the stateme...

WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT COULD WIPE OUT DV AGAINTS WOMEN

Government, Parliament, Top Headlines

January 22, 2014

MP for North Vella Lavella, Milner Tozaka has told a Regional Consultation Conference on human rights in New Zealand that having women in Solomon Isla...

MP DISTRIBUTES SECOND SET OF SOLAR

Government, Top Headlines

January 13, 2014

Member of Parliament for North Malaita, Vika Lusibaea has delivered a second set of solar panels to 30 families in Ward 8 of the constituency. SIBC St...

GOVERNMENT’S MILLION DOLLARS ASSISTANCE HAILED.

Government, Politics

December 17, 2013

Communities of East Malaita and Kwaio, Malaita Province have praised the National Government’s 1-million-dollar relief supply in response to a f...

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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.

For more on the history of radio in Solomon Islands click here: SIBC Stations

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