Category: MSG

Craft centre, plans move forward for 6th Melanesian arts festival

Admin - December 8, 2017

A pan-pipe group performing at a recent arts festival in Honiara. Photo: www.sv-carina.org The Art Gallery in Honiara will be the venue for the 6th ... Read More

Fiji

MSG LEADERS HAVE GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES

Sibc News - January 18, 2017

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. Photo credit: PM Press Secretariat. The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Chair, Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare says leaders of MSG countries ... Read More

MSG

PRIME MINISTER IN PORT VILA ON MSG CAPITAL TOUR

Sibc News - January 17, 2017

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. Photo credit: OPMC. Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare has arrived in Port Vila last night from Brisbane, Australia, where ... Read More

MSG

2017 MELANESIAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT IN HONIARA

Sibc News - October 26, 2016

Government

MGS’s DETERMINATION TO GRANT ULMWP FULL MEMBERSHIP STILL ON

Sibc News - July 17, 2016

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. Photo credit: OPMC.The Melanesian Spearhead Group's (MSG) determination to grant full membership to the United Liberation Movement for West ... Read More

MSG

ULMWP DISAPPOINTED WITH MSG’s DEFERRAL DECISION

Sibc News - July 17, 2016

General-Secretary for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua Octovianus Mote with local supporters in Honiara. Photo credit: SIBC. The Secretary General of the United ... Read More

Honiara City

WE WANT MORE INTERACTION WITH MSG: MOTE

Sibc News - July 14, 2016

General-Secretary for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua Octovianus Mote with local supporters in Honiara. Photo credit: SIBC. West Papua says it wants more ... 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.