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ABC partners with Solomon Islands broadcaster

ABC signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation.

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ABC has partnered with public broadcaster the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation to collaborate and support, on content sharing and media development.

A new Memorandum of Understanding was signed at SIBC headquarters in Honiara by a senior ABC delegation and follows from a similar agreement with Radio e Televisoa de Timor-Leste.

ABC Managing Director David Anderson said: “The ABC is delighted to continue its partnership with the SIBC. The agreement strengthens media collaboration and exchange between the ABC and the SIBC through training, sharing media expertise and providing technical and program support. We will learn from each other as we seek to serve our audiences better.”

SIBC Chief Executive Officer Johnson Honimae said: “The SIBC Board, management, and staff but more importantly our listeners, viewers and followers of SIBC radio, SIBC TV and SIBC online are so grateful to the ABC for agreeing to continue the partnership between the two broadcasting organisations by signing the MoU.

“With the digitisation of broadcasting, such a partnership as outlined in the MoU is the only way to go for a small broadcaster such as SIBC. We need the help of one of the longest broadcasters in the Pacific region. There is much to share including in the areas of capacity building, technology, and content especially as SIBC, after 70 years of broadcasting is finally expanding into television.

“SIBC looks forward to working together with our colleagues at ABC to continue to inform, educate, entertain and engage our peoples.“

The SIBC was established in 1976 and serves the country’s many scattered islands and communities, broadcasting on radio, television, and online platforms.

The SIBC also intends to launch a national television service, the first of its kind in the 70 years of broadcasting in the Solomon Islands, in time for the 17th Pacific Games in November 2023.

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  1. Its great to see the ABC expanding its presence in the Pacific Islands. Both Australia and the Asia Pacific region stand to benefit from an expanded and more diverse array of programming choices, cultural awareness, and improved relations.

  2. I’ve certainly seen some improvement in ABC Australia (formerly ABC Asia Pacific and Australia Network) in the last year, in terms of relevancy. Which would adhere to the current government policy with the Asia and Pacific region.

    Relevancy is definitely important, I think. I know Pacific Islands and some Asian nations love their rugby, sports, music and cooking, which is a good gateway to Australian culture, but shows like The Drum hold no relevancy in overseas countries, even if it may for me to keep in touch with the local political discourse, or in the Australian suburbs and towns.

    You can be an expat, worker or tourist in Solomon Islands, East Timor, Papua, Vanuatu, Samoa or New Caledonia and be quite literally the only person in these countries to be viewing The Drum or Insiders at the time of broadcast on ABC Australia.

    Relevancy is important in diplomacy. It needs relevance and not for the sake of broadcasting.

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