Category: Workshops

Agriculture

DROUGHT POLICY WORKSHOP STARTS TODAY

Sibc News - September 5, 2016

Cyclones

WORKSHOP ON CYCLONE COORDINATION UNDERWAY IN HONIARA

Sibc News - August 29, 2016

A cyclone watch for Solomon Islands. Photo credit: ABC. A ... Read More

Elections

LEADERS COMPLETED TWO DAYS DIALOGUE ON ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Sibc News - August 27, 2016

All the leaders in a group photo. Photo credit: SIEC. Members of Parliament have completed a two-day dialogue on electoral systems that could be adopted ... Read More

Fisheries

PNA MEMBERS DISCUSS FISHERIES ISSUES IN MUNDA

Sibc News - June 16, 2016

The Parties to the Nauru Agreement official logo. Photo credit: PNA Facebook page. Fisheries Ministers around the Pacific Islands who are members of the Parties ... Read More

Corruption

ANTI-CORRUPTION WORKSHOP ON IN HONIARA

Sibc News - June 15, 2016

Corruption. Photo credit: News of Africa. Investigators and Prosecutors are currently attending an Anti-Corruption Training Workshop in Honiara. The workshop is attended by 20 personnel ... Read More

Fisheries

PNA REGIONAL WORKSHOP STARTS IN NORO

Sibc News - June 13, 2016

The Parties to the Nauru Agreement official logo. Photo credit: PNA Facebook page. A two-day regional workshop gathering members of the Parties to the Nauru ... Read More

Communities

“THEORY OF CHANGE AND PROJECT WRITING” ENDED IN WEST ARE’ARE

Sibc News - June 7, 2016

A map of Malaita Province. Photo credit: www.commerce.gov.sb A two-day workshop on "Theory of Change and Project Writing" concludes for landowners registered and organized groups ... 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.