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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 ...
Lumsden worked in Jamaica for the Banana Board before teaching Botany and Agronomy at the Jamaica School of Agriculture from 1963 to 1965. He worked for the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation from 1965 to 1981, his work including commentary on horse racing. [13] From 1981 to 1989 he was an agricultural adviser to the Minister of Agriculture.
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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 ...
FLOW Sports is the only regional channel that broadcast in full High Definition (HD) from a state of the art broadcasting studio located in Trinidad. JET – Jamaica Education TV; FLOW TV Michele English, president and chief operating officer of Flow in Jamaica, put the local content drive in the context of the company's development.
Joyce Lilieth Robinson OJ CD MBE (née Lawson; 2 July 1925 – 12 May 2013) was a Jamaican public servant best known for her work as a librarian. She served for lengthy periods as director of the Jamaica Library Service (1957–1976) and chair of the National Library of Jamaica (1979–1996), and was also briefly general manager of the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (1981–1982).
Having returned to Jamaica in 1964, Delapenha played cricket for a short time and represented Boys' Town at football, taking them from Division 3 up to Division 1. He also coached his alma mater, Wolmer's Schools in athletics and football in the mid 1960s. Soon after, he became director of sports at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. [6]