Category: Tourism

Country’s colonial history museum to be built in Tulagi

Admin - August 25, 2020

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare giving his weekly adress, at tge PMO office|Photo by SIBC TV Plans are currently underway to develop the country's first-ever colonial ... Read More

Breaking News

SI-Tourism sector projected a $5.3 million dollars revenue loss due to COVID-19

Admin - April 6, 2020

Solomon Islands Visitors Beaureu CEO, Josefa Tuamoto The Solomon Islands Tourism Industry is projecting an eighty to ninety percent drop in its revenues as well ... Read More

Agriculture

Banana Festival sets for next weekend

Admin - October 2, 2019

2015 Banana queens on a float parade The Makira Banana Festival is set for next weekend, confirms Chairlady of the local organising committee, Mrs. Aukeni ... Read More

Tourism

New tourism trails launched

Admin - September 24, 2019

Counsellor Andrew Schloeffel of Australia and Permanent Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Andrew Nihopara The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) ... Read More

Government

Govt prioritizes tourism: Hou

Admin - January 18, 2019

Caretaker Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela. The caretaker Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela today opened the 2019 Tourism In Focus at Coral Sea Resort in Honiara. Led ... Read More

Honiara City

Search for deceased Russian tourist’s family on

Admin - December 28, 2018

The deceased was buried at Kola Ridge graveyard. Photo: Danny Dau. Police yesterday buried the body of Russian who died a couple of months ago ... Read More

Arts and Culture

Honiara craft center opens today

Admin - November 2, 2018

Foreign Affairs Trade Commissioner Joseph Mahanua, Taiwan Ambassador, His Excellency Roger Luo and the Minister of Culture and Tourism Hon. Bartholomew Parapolo The Honiara Craft ... 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.