ZIZ

For other uses, see Ziz (disambiguation).

ZIZ
TypeNational broadcaster
Country
Saint Kitts and Nevis
First air date
  • 1935 (shortwave)[1]
  • 5 March 1961 (relaunch; radio)[2]
  • 3 December 1972 (television)[3]
TV stationsChannel 5[4]
Radio stations95.9, 96.1, 96.3, and 96.9 FM[4]
HeadquartersBasseterre
OwnerGovernment of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Dissolvedca. 1940 (shortwave)[5]
Former callsigns
VP2LO (shortwave, 1935–1939)[1]
Official website
zizonline.com

ZIZ Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), commonly referred to as ZIZ,[6] is the national broadcasting service of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. Originating in 1935 as the shortwave station VP2LO, it adopted its present-day callsign in 1939 but went off the air shortly after; it relaunched on the AM format in 1961, and expanded to television in 1972. A government-owned service and a member of the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), ZIZ carries its programming across four FM frequencies and one TV channel; the AM outlet remained in operation as late as the 2010s.

  1. ^ a b Inniss 1979, p. 63.
  2. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Great Britain Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1966). "Broadcasting". St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla: Report for the Years 1959–1962. His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). p. 63. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Lent, John A. (1977). "The Awakening (1938–44) and After: Radio, Television, Film". Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717–1976. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-8387-1896-5. Retrieved 5 October 2024 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b "Prime Minister Dr. Drew to Address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 27, 2024". The Labour Spokesman. 27 September 2024. Archived from the original on 27 September 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  5. ^ Pardee, Mike (8 May 1940). "On the Air Waves: Short-Wave Shorts — May 8". The Press Democrat. Santa Rosa, California. p. 11. Retrieved 9 October 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Daniel 2001, p. 4.