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ZIZ
TypeNational broadcaster
Country
Saint Kitts and Nevis
First air date
  • 1930s (shortwave/radio)
  • 3 December 1972 (television)[1]
OwnerGovernment of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Former callsigns
VP2LO (shortwave, 1930s–1939)[2]
Official website
https://zizonline.com

ZIZ Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as ZIZ, is the national broadcasting service of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Owned by the local government, ZIZ originated as the shortwave service VP2LO in the 1930s. After adopting its present-day callsign in 1939, it was relaunched in 1961 and expanded to television in 1973.

History

ZIZ began as the shortwave radio station VP2LO in the 1930s, "operated by the ICA Radio Sales & Service Laboratories in conjunction with the Caribbean Broadcasting Service",[2] and adopted its present-day call sign on 21 January 1939.[3][a][b] The radio station was relaunched on 5 March 1961, serving what was then St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla and using £23,000 in Colonial Development and Welfare Funds from two years prior. Starting from a three-hour daily schedule, it was later heard in two separate sessions (6:45–10:00 in the morning, and 6:00–10:00 at night). It carried local shows and imported BBC material; with special programming, a broadcast day could run up to 15 hours.[5]

ZIZ launched a television division on 3 December 1972.[1] During that decade, it operated one transmitter and four translators across the territory;[1] by the 1980s, it aired 5½ hours of programming every weeknight.[6] Around the turn of the 21st century, the local political opposition saw ZIZ as a mouthpiece for its owner, the local government, and accused the station for denying them airtime.[7] As of 2006, it was Saint Kitts and Nevis' sole television service.[8]

Availability

ZIZ is a government-owned commercial broadcaster.[9] Its radio programming is broadcast across four FM frequencies (95.9, 96.1, 96.3, and 96.9),[10] and was heard on 555 AM as late as the 2010s;[11] the television service airs on channel 5.[10] During the 1960s, the radio station was heard across the British Leeward Islands as well as the neighbouring French and Dutch territories;[5] by the 1970s, the TV counterpart served the entire Leeward archipelago.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Sources differ as to the programming allotment; Clarke 1939 gives a 35-minute runtime starting at 5:00 p.m. AST, while Berg 2013 states its 30-minute schedule ran on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 EST.
  2. ^ The original VP2LO callsign was reused by a Saint Lucia outfit in the late 1950s.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d 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.
  2. ^ a b Berg, Jerome S. (4 October 2013). "The Early Shortwave Stations". The Early Shortwave Stations: A Broadcasting History Through 1945. McFarland. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7864-7411-0. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Clarke, H. Thursten (21 January 1939). "The DX Column: Where VP2LO Went". The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily. p. 6. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via Bermuda National Library Digital Collection.
  4. ^ Thomas, L. H. (September 1958). "DX Commentary: Calls Heard, Worked and QSL'd: DX Gossip" (PDF). The Short Wave Magazine. XVI: 365. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via World Radio History.
  5. ^ a b 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.
  6. ^ "International TV Directory: St. Kitts". TV & Cable Factbook (PDF). Television Digest, Inc. 1984. p. 1386. ISSN 0732-8648. Retrieved 1 May 2024 – via World Radio History.
  7. ^ Veenendaal, Wouter (2015) [17 October 2014]. "The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis: politics or politricks?". Politics and Democracy in Microstates. Routledge. p. pos. 148. ISBN 978-1-317-64657-0. Retrieved 5 October 2024 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Bailey, Chauncey (12 July 2006). "St. Kitts Music Festival Brings Talent to Thousands". Oakland Post (California). p. 2, 7. Retrieved 5 October 2024 – via ProQuest.
  9. ^ "St Kitts and Nevis country profile". BBC News. 14 September 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Prime Minister Dr. Drew to Address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 27, 2024". The Labour Spokesman. 27 September 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  11. ^ Jordan, Brandon (23 October 2010). "DX Worldwide — East: Pan-American DX" (PDF). DX Monitor. 48 (7) (1514 ed.). Ocala, Florida: International Radio Club of America (IRCA): 9. ISSN 0899-9732 – via World Radio History.

Further reading

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