Category: Tourism

Solomon Islands has its first internationally accredited female dive instructor

Admin - October 9, 2017

Zaza Bedford. The Solomon Islands has its first internationally accredited female dive instructor. Zaza Bedford, 19, from Munda Western Province and New Zealand, is a ... Read More

Pageants

Meet the seven contestants for the Miss Solomon Islands Pageant 2017

Admin - October 6, 2017

The seven contestants started preparations for the show this week. Seven women are vying for the Miss Solomon Islands crown this year. They started their ... Read More

Top Headlines

International visitation high

Admin - August 21, 2017

A typical tourism destination in the Solomons. Photo: SIVB. International visitation to the Solomon Islands is up this quarter. Visitation rose by 29 percent ... Read More

Government

Malaitian tourism operator calls for more boats to Honiara

Admin - June 12, 2017

Serah Kei, the owner-operator of Serah’s Hideaway in Langa Langa Lagoon. A tourism operator in Malaita’s Langa Langa Lagoon has called on the Government to ... Read More

People

Solomon Islander girls make a splash as dive instructors

Admin - April 20, 2017

Zaza Bedford on a Dive Munda boat It is not a common answer for Solomon Islander girls when they're asked: what do you do for ... Read More

People

Can tourism become the Solomon Islands’ next economic pillar?

Admin - April 5, 2017

A tourist meets some local Solomon Islanders A new study has highlighted the importance of tourism in the Solomon Islands, and its potential to become a ... Read More

Canada

HIGH-LEVEL DISCUSSIONS HELD IN OTTAWA ON CITREC REMITTANCE

Sibc News - October 25, 2016

Canada's capital ... 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.