Category: PNG

PNG community celebrates independence day

Admin - September 16, 2017

A boy participates in celebrations for Papua New Guinea's 42nd independence day in Honiara. Papua New Guinea nationals in Solomon Islands celebrated their home country's ... 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

PNG

MSG logo. Photo credit: SIBC. Melanesian Spearhead Group Leaders have 'deferred' deliberations on the United Liberation Movement for West Papua's application for full membership, a ... Read More

Government

GOV’T QUESTIONED OVER DELAY IN REPATRIATING STUDENTS

Sibc News - June 26, 2016

Students protest at UPNG. Photo credit: RNZ. The Parliamentary Opposition Group is questioning why the Government has delayed the repatriation of our students studying in ... Read More

Government

OPPOSITION REITERATES CALL TO REPATRIATE SIG STUDENTS IN PNG

Sibc News - June 16, 2016

The Opposition Leader Hon. Jeremiah Manele. Photo credit: Parliament. The Parliamentary Opposition Group is reiterating its call for the Government to repatriate Solomon Islands students ... 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.

Category: PNG

PNG community celebrates independence day

MSG LEADERS HAVE GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES

BORDER DISCUSSIONS ON BETWEEN RSIPF & RPNGC

PACIFIC COMMUNITY URGED TO EXPLORE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES

MSG LEADERS DEFERRED TALKS ON WEST PAPUA’s MSG APPLICATION

GOV’T QUESTIONED OVER DELAY IN REPATRIATING STUDENTS

OPPOSITION REITERATES CALL TO REPATRIATE SIG STUDENTS IN PNG