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Barbados Broadcasting Service: Easy listening Emergency Broadcast Station FM (EBS) 91.3: ♦♦: Gun Hill, St. George: Government of Barbados: Emergency Broadcast Station BBC Radio FM BBC Relay: 92.1: United Kingdom: BBC World Service Relay: World News VOB FM Voice of Barbados (VOB) 92.9: Bridgetown, St. Michael: Starcom Network
The television service broadcasts on channel 8 and is the only legally licensed, over-the-air television channel broadcasting in the country of Barbados. The corporation also owns and operates three radio stations: CBC Radio on 94.7 MHz FM and 900 kHz AM, The One on 98.1 MHz FM and Q-100.7 on 100.7 MHz FM.
Usage is high and provided by a service monopoly, Barbados Light & Power Company Ltd. (a division of Canada-based Emera). The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) call sign prefix allocated for all radio and television broadcasts in Barbados is 8P, and this replaced the former ZN and VP6 as a British territory.
While fairly hot, Bridgetown is cooled somewhat by the trade winds that affect weather in Barbados in general. Bridgetown's record high of 33.1 °C (91.6 °F) in September 2005 and record low of 16.5 °C (61.7 °F) on 2 January 1984. [17] Bridgetown features distinct wet and dry seasons, with a relatively lengthy wet season and a shorter dry ...
Bridgetown: 1963 State-owned TV and radio P A Caribbean Media Corporation: Consumer services Broadcasting & entertainment Bridgetown: 2000 Television content P A CarIFS: Financials Financial services Bridgetown: 1999 Money movement P A Central Bank of Barbados: Financials Banks Bridgetown: 1972 Formal central bank S A Chefette: Consumer services
Starcom Network is a radio station in Barbados. Starcom Network began its life as Radio Distribution (Barbados) Limited, with the introduction of the first broadcast station then located at Wildey, St. Michael in 1935. At that time, the company transmitted its broadcast signal using a cable network system, known as subscription radio.
The Nation Publishing Company also publishes a weekly youth magazine called Attitude and a visitors' booklet called Explore Barbados. In 2004, a weekly Canadian print version was created, as a joint venture with the Carib-Cana Media Inc. (CCMI), to service a growing clientele in Canada for weekly news from Barbados. The Canadian version was ...
Grantley Adams International Airport lies 12.9 km (8.0 mi) from the centre of the capital city Bridgetown, in an area officially known as Seawell.This is contrary to most information services stating the airport as being inside the capital.