Category: Governor General

GOVERNOR GENERAL YET TO RECEIVE FORMAL PM NOMINATIONS

Sibc News - December 4, 2014

Solomon Islands Governor General Sir Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui. Photo credit: SIBC. The Governor General Sir Frank Ofagioro Kabui has yet to receive a formal ... Read More

Elections

DATE SET FOR ELECTION OF SOLOMON ISLANDS PRIME MINISTER

Sibc News - December 2, 2014

Solomon Islands Governor General Sir Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui. Photo credit: SIBC. The Governor General Sir Frank Ofagioro Kabui has set December 9th for the ... Read More

Elections

MORE ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED BY GOVERNOR GENERAL

Sibc News - November 21, 2014

Solomon Islands Governor General Sir Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui. Photo credit: SIBC. The Governor General, Sir Frank Ofagioro Kabui has officially announced another four results as ... Read More

Diplomacy

SOLOMON ISLANDS HAS NEW ITALIAN AMBASSADOR

Sibc News - October 11, 2014

Ambassador Pier Francesco Zazo and Sir Frank Kabui at Government House. Photo credit: GCU. Solomon Islands has a new Italian Ambassador. He is Pier Francesco ... Read More

Elections

SOLOMON ISLANDERS TO THE POLLS ON 19TH NOVEMBER

Sibc News - October 11, 2014

Chief Electoral Officer Polycarp Haununu. Photo credit: SIBC. Solomon Islands will go to the polls on November 19. Governor General Sir Frank Kabui signed a ... Read More

Elections

SOLOMON ISLANDS TO POLLS ON 19TH NOVEMBER 2014

Sibc News - October 11, 2014

A voter casting a ballot paper into a ballot box. Photo credit: SIBC. Governor General, Sir Frank Kabui, has signed the proclamation for the 2014 National ... Read More

Church

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ARRIVES IN HONIARA

Sibc News - August 10, 2014

The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Right Reverend Justin Welby. Photo credit: Telegraph UK. The Archbishop of Canterbury - the most Reverend and Right Honourable ... 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.