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The organisation also produces a weekly newspaper, the St Helena Independent, which continues despite the closure of SaintFM. The managing director of the station was Mikael Olsson. [1] The radio frequencies vacated by Saint FM have been taken over by Saint FM Community Radio. Saint FM 94.7 closed down on 31 April 2018 at midnight.
The St Helena Independent [162] has been published since November 2005. The Sentinel newspaper was introduced in 2012. [163] Saint Helena Island Info is an online resource featuring the history of St. Helena from its discovery to the present day, plus photographs and information about life on St. Helena today. [164]
The station's sister newspaper is the St Helena Independent. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Previously, Radio St Helena , which started operations on Christmas Day 1967, provided a local radio service that had a range of about 60 miles (100 km) from the island, and also broadcast internationally on Shortwave Radio (11092.5 kHz) on one day a year.
Mary Pope Mack, left, speaks about the lack of access to Big House Cemetery as her brother Jimmy Pope listens on July 10, 2024 at Nazareth Baptist Church on St. Helena Island.
The Saint Helena Napoleonic Heritage group, which is dedicated to preserving Napoleon’s memory on the island, plans to hold several events in coming days, livestreamed if the island's internet ...
The organisation which ran the service, St Helena News Media Services, also produced a weekly newspaper, the St Helena Herald. The offices were located at Broadway House, Jamestown, whilst the station's broadcasts were radiated from a transmitter in St Paul's. The first broadcast was on Christmas Day 1967, broadcasting on 1511 kHz until 1978.
St. Helena Island is an epicenter of Gullah Geechee culture and history and also home to the Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people.
The Daily Herald started publishing in Helena on August 2, 1867. [3] The Weekly Independent started publishing in Deer Lodge on October 12, 1867, [4] and then moved to Helena in March 1874, [5] and began publication as The Daily Independent, and then, in 1875, as The Helena Independent. [6]