{"id":35822,"date":"2019-02-01T06:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35822"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:53:02","slug":"representative-from-nuku-png-asks-nbc-to-reintroduce-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/representative-from-nuku-png-asks-nbc-to-reintroduce-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Representative from Nuku, PNG asks NBC to reintroduce shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Papua-New-Guinea-Map.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29040\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Papua-New-Guinea-Map.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Papua-New-Guinea-Map.jpeg 657w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Papua-New-Guinea-Map-300x213.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Papua-New-Guinea-Map-624x443.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/postcourier.com.pg\/reintroduce-shortwave-band-reach-rural-areas-sungi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PNG Post Courier<\/a>\u00a0via Michael Bird)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Member for Nuku Joseph Sungi has called in the National Broadcasting Corporation to reintroduce the short wave band to reach the rural people.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sungi in a series of questions to Minister for Communication and Information Technology Sam Basil said in the late 1980s, the NBC at the time through the provincial radio stations was using the shortwave band.<\/p>\n<p>He said Radio Sandaun in West Sepik could reach districts like Nuku and parts of Telefomin but that was not the case anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes the minister and the department have any plans to make sure that same service under short wave band can be replaced by a new one or improvement can be made so that provincial radio stations can be revived and broadcasted straight so that remote parts of PNG can use to get news and update on what is happening around the country?\u201d Mr Sungi said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Basil, who is also responsible for Energy, said a lot of people in the rural areas were asking the same question because they could no longer have access to NBC radio.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u201cI have had discussions with the managing director of NBC and I told them that we want that service to return. We are now moving the system at NBC from analogue to digital so I asked them how we can fit in the short wave system when we do the migration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came up with a few ideas. For some places like Bougainville shortwave is available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I asked them how can we asked the shops to start selling shortwave 1 and 2 transistor radios that receive this wireless signal, a lot of shops are not selling, In places like Bougainville we want to import some radios to distribute so that they carry out the awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now talking about bringing back these services and improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will start in Port Moresby first and roll out to provinces, We are trying our very best to bring the service back because most of our people are in rural areas, A lot of our radio stations now invest into FM band which signals of often blocked by barriers like mountains that is why we want to bring back the shortwave band,\u201d Mr Basil said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/postcourier.com.pg\/reintroduce-shortwave-band-reach-rural-areas-sungi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the full article at the Post Courier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: PNG Post Courier\u00a0via Michael Bird) Member for Nuku Joseph Sungi has called in the National Broadcasting Corporation to reintroduce the short wave band to reach the rural people. Mr Sungi in a series of questions to Minister for Communication and Information Technology Sam Basil said in the late 1980s, the NBC at the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[960,3,43],"tags":[3948,3975,34],"class_list":["post-35822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-png","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9jM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62993,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/papua-new-guinea-plans-shortwave-comeback-by-2030\/","url_meta":{"origin":35822,"position":0},"title":"Papua New Guinea Plans Shortwave Comeback by 2030","author":"Thomas","date":"May 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor David Iurescia, who shares a promising update from Radio New Zealand International: Papua New Guinea\u2019s national broadcaster, NBC, has announced plans to reintroduce shortwave radio as part of a strategy to achieve full nationwide coverage by 2030. 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