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The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) was a public broadcasting company in Jamaica founded in 1959 by premier Norman Manley with the aim of emulating the success of other national broadcasting companies such as the BBC and CBC.
1964 Jamaican broadcast strike, 97-day strike by Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation workers. [3] [4] 1980s. 1985 Jamaica general strike [5] [6] 21st century
In 1953, Jamaica became the first of the British colonies in the Caribbean to offer FM broadcasting when RJR began using the technology. By 1954, there were over 57,000 rediffusion boxes distributed throughout the country. [1] In 1959 Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was founded as a public broadcasting corporation operated by the government ...
In 1961, Whylie was the first black radio announcer hired by the British Broadcasting Corporation. [1] In 1973, he became the general manager of Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, where he remained until 1976. [2] In 1977, he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he remained until 1997.
In addition to his contract at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC), Malcolm also worked as a composer and arranger for other clients such as the Jamaica Little Theatre Movement for whom he created the original musical for the libretti of two pantomimes: Banana Boy in December 1958 (libretto by Ortford St John) and Jamaica Way in 1960 ...
In 1974, Ellington joined the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC), eventually hosting Morning Ride for over a dozen years. [1] [2] She also served as one of the main news anchors on Jamaican radio and television for decades. [1] In 2005, she made her directorial debut, when she staged the one-woman show Who Will Sing for Lena. [3]
Wilmot Perkins began his radio career hosting the program What's your Grouse on RJR in 1960. He then took a break from the airwaves a few years later to go into farming, but returned to radio in the 1970s, as host of Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation's (JBC) popular call-in program Public Eye.
A. L. Hendriks was born in 1922 in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Jamaican father and a French mother. Hendriks was educated at Jamaica College and briefly at Ottershaw College in Surrey, England. After joining the family business for a few years he entered broadcasting in 1950.