Category: SIBC

VACANCY NOTICE

Admin - June 17, 2019

VACANCY NOTICE The national broadcaster SIBC needs to fill two vacancies on its board of directors as soon as possible. The state-owned enterprises (SOE) regulations ... Read More

SIBC

Admin - January 23, 2019

SIBC SPECIAL RATES ... Read More

SIBC

SIBC preps for 2018 NG Election

Admin - November 26, 2018

The 2018 'SIBC Election Reporting Workshop' participants group photo. Solomon Islands Broadcasting corporation (SIBC) has started its 3 day workshop for its stringers and reporters ... Read More

Education

Solomon Islands student journalists scoop prestigious awards

Admin - October 21, 2018

MASI President Charles Kadaman with two award winners, Rosalie Nongebatu and Elizabeth Osifelo. Solomon Islands Journalism students at the University of the South Pacific have ... 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

Government

Govt settles $200000 of arrears to SIBC

Admin - January 4, 2018

Government representatives John Muria Jr (L) and Ethel Frances presenting the cheque to SIBC CEO Ashley Wickham and Finance Manager Jacob Panada (R) The Solomon ... Read More

SIBC

Refreshing the Roof at SIBC HQ

Admin - August 11, 2017

Workers clean the roof at SIBC offices Friday, 11 August Panorama of SIBC offices during the clean up 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.