Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation

08/10/2023

Wishing Patricia Lazarus a very happy birthday!🎊🎉🎂🎁🍾🥂

Anyone here remembers “Romper Room”?

25/08/2023

Eric Barrett and Hugh Croskill at Boys Champs back in the day.

05/08/2023

60 years ago The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was officially launched. Happy Birthday JBC TV!

09/07/2023

We now say goodbye to Winston Williams. “The Whip”…

24/02/2023

Remembering our friends “down the road”.😃

19/02/2023

Rewind to 1971 JBC Radio top ten!

JBC Hit Parade, December 3, 1971, recorded off the air by Bob Witmer.

02/02/2023

A video celebrating the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation and the people whose contributions went a far way in giving Jamaica it’s celebrated culture and created the foundation for me (Lukkee Chong) to do what I do even today, 51 years later!

Dedicated to The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation and my co-workers who created a foundation for me in television production. Starting in 1972 my journey con...

10/01/2023

Recorded in JBC TV.

03/11/2022

A fitting tribute to Leonie Forbes from Cat Coore and friends.

26/10/2022

Rest In Peace Leonie Forbes, queen of the stage and screen.🙏🏼

Leonie Forbes gave me many moments of joy. She could utilize the King's English with aplomb, but, could cast a spell on you when she used our Jamaican language. A talent that was bigger than our shores. We had brilliance, I wonder if we knew. Soar in the realms of the ancestors.
Picture collage - Wayne Chen

01/09/2022

Well done Addy!

Addy Chin of Jamaica made history when she became the first Jamaican woman to qualify as a competitor for the Aquathlon World Championships, which were held at the X-bionic® Sphere Sports Complex near Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia

30/07/2022

Festival song for

'Nuh Weh Nice Like Yard' performed by Sacaj /STREAM: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1zYnKhCLmcu2ji7UZ9Vid7​App...

26/07/2022

Group Members.... Would anyone have any images of Schools' Challenge Quiz with Dennis Hall and willing to share please do so.
Thanks!

13/02/2022

A JIS documentary produced by the late Easton Lee on Miss Lou. It features quite a few of our past JBC stalwarts!

This video explores The Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley's growth in the performing arts and writing. It includes testimonials from other practitioners citing pe...

29/01/2022

RIP Carey Robinson. You did your thing through the hills and gullies of Jamaica.

Carey Fitz William Robinson, the journalist, author and historian known as the voice of the television programme, Hill an' Gully Ride, has died. Robinson passed away in his sleep at his St Andrew home yesterday at the age of 97. He had been...

17/11/2021

Today marks 77 years since broadcasting began in Jamaica. It began with using the 'ham' shortwave radio equipment of John Grinan, an American resident in the island who handed over his station to the Government in compliance with wartime regulations. ZQI, as it was called, went on the air for one hour per week and would continue to broadcast from Grinan's house. In 1947, station broadcasting increased as it started to broadcast up to 4 hours daily. Broadcasting in Jamaica since then has grown significantly as we now have many radio as well as television stations.

Image: National Library Photograph Collection

Source: Senior, Olive. Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage. Twin Guinep Publishers, 2003.

08/09/2021

Happy Birthday Miss Lou!

https://youtu.be/pgS1mSWpP9s

Ring Ding which began in 1968, airing on the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) and which continued until 1980 was hosted by the redoubtable Miss Lou (Lo...

12/08/2021

This is Louise Bennett - Coverly & husband Eric Coverly.....

04/07/2021

On June 15, 1959, the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) was introduced as a public broadcasting firm. It was founded by Premier Norman Manley with the goal of becoming a successful national broadcasting company like the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in the United Kingdom and the Canadian B...

20/01/2021

Jamaica has lost another icon.
Easton Lee's contribution to the culture is immeasurable!