Category: OFC

Bilikiki edges closer to WC

Admin - June 19, 2019

James Naka goes for a bicycle kick against New Caledonia. Photo: OFC. The Solomon islands Bilikiki Beach soccer team are edging closer to the world ... Read More

FIFA

Bilikiki boys set for Beach Soccer comeback

Admin - April 16, 2019

James Naka in action for the Bilikiki boys. Photo: FIFA. The official draw of the OFC Beach Soccer Nations Cup 2019 will take place between ... Read More

Honiara City

Warriors’ quarterfinal hopes in tatters

Admin - February 27, 2019

Kensi Tangis missed a crucial penalty in the first half. Solomon Warriors chance of making it into the quarterfinal of the OFC Champions league is ... Read More

Honiara City

SIFF to appeal OFC ruling

Admin - February 18, 2019

SIFF President Willie Lai. Solomon Islands Football Federation President Mr Willie Lai says SIFF is appealing OFC's decision to forfeit the national under seventeen team's ... Read More

FIFA

Solomon Islands loses U17 WC Spot

Admin - February 16, 2019

The U-17 Squad during the qualifiers. The Solomon Islands National U-17 team have been disqualified from participating in this year's FIFA U17 World Cup in ... Read More

FIFA

Vinicius vows to maintain Kurukuru’s winning culture

Admin - February 5, 2019

Vinicius De Carvalho Leite. Photo: Daniel Kakadi. The Newly appointed Kurukuru Brazilian head coach Vinicius De Carvalho Leite has arrived in the country today. Speaking ... Read More

Futsal

Puirana confident ahead of ‘pool of death’

Admin - October 4, 2018

Stanley Puirana. Photo: OFC. Solomon Islands National U-17 futsal coach Stanley Puirana says he is confident in going into the pool of death at the ... 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.