Samoa FM Sale Samoa Quality Broadcasters have completed purchase of 89.1 FM Apia, the former SBC Radio 1 outlet. CEO is Ms Faiesea Matafeo, also the current CEO of SBC and she will be joined by seven other existing SBC staff. Redundancy payments are being made to others.
The station will continue the 60 year old tradition of quality broadcasting established by forerunner 2AP in 1948, and serve Samoa in both English and Samoan languages. SQB have also purchased Televise Samoa from the SBC, and will be operating from the same premises at Mulinu'u on the harbor front in Apia. The existing SBC1 and SBC2 AM transmitters [540 and 747] are not part of the sale deal and will come under control of the Ministry of Communications for use in emergencies and other times of national interest. Further information on operations of the national AM service will be available shortly. The full background to the sale can be found at the 'Samoan Radio Sale' article at www.radioheritage.net, along with exclusive photos of the existing SBC studio and transmission facilities in Apia. David Ricquish Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.net ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
