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JBC Television began broadcasting on Sunday, 4 August 1963 at 6 pm ( See: The Daily Gleaner Archives, August 4, 1963, page 2), to coincide with the first anniversary of Jamaica's independence. [2] It was the second television service launched in the Commonwealth Caribbean, following Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) from the previous year. [3]
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 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 ...
[4] [5] After studying accounting at the West Indies Commercial Institute, he took a job as an accounts clerk with the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation while also singing in his spare time. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] His recordings came to the attention of Mikey Dread , a radio presenter at the station, and with Dread's assistance he released his first single ...
Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation This page was last edited on 11 March 2024, at 06:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Cadogan is the daughter of Rev. Claude Cadogan and Lola Cadogan, a trained soprano singer of classical and devotional music during the 1950s up until 2000. [2] Cadogan spent several years of her childhood in Belize, where her father was from, before returning to Jamaica to live. [2]
Renowned Jamaican sculptor Basil Watson created the statue, coined the John Lewis Memorial. It was installed August 16 in Decatur Square in front of the Historic Decatur Courthouse.
Don Buchla begins to design an electronic music synthesizer in Berkeley, California. Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica, named Studio One. Lord Shorty's "Cloak and Dagger" is widely considered the first soca recording. I Nyoman Rembang leaves the Surakarta Conservatorium to teach at the College of Music SMKI in ...