Category: Media

Breaking News

Cabinet to deliberate on whether to suspend Facebook or not soon

Sibc News - January 13, 2021

"Facebook will not be suspended." Read More

Breaking News

MASI PAYS TRIBUTE TO ITS LONG SERVING MEMBER

Sibc News - November 3, 2020

“INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, COOPERATION, RESPECT”. Read More

Church

SIEC Prepares for by-elections

Admin - September 14, 2020

Preparations are well underway for the North East Guadalcanal and Central Honiara constituencies by-election later this year. Chief Electoral Officer, Jane Waetara said, the Solomon ... Read More

Government

Prime Minister Houenipwela sets the record straight

Admin - November 30, 2018

Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela has described as "erroneous" the reported costs incurred by his recent trip to the Asia Pacific Economic ... Read More

Makira/Ulawa Province

‘Media, the bridge between people and government’: Julian Maka’a

Admin - July 11, 2018

Julian Maka'a with his wife Masy Goreti Maka'a and SIBC colleagues Cheryl Aumanu and Elizabeth Sade, after receiving his award. “The people must understand the ... Read More

Defamation

ISLAND SUN FINED FOR DEFAMATION

Sibc News - September 28, 2016

Court hammer. Photo credit: humanities.case.edu The Island Sun Newspaper has been fined $100,000.00 for defamation, the latest defamation case against the local media for 2016. ... Read More

Government

OPMC REFUTED CLAIMS OF PM BEING ILL-ADVISED

Sibc News - September 22, 2016

Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Photo credit: SICR. The Office of the Prime Minister has rejected views carried on the article in Island ... 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.