Dominica Broadcasting Corporation

Dominica Broadcasting Corporation
Roseau, Dominica;
Broadcast area	Dominica and Eastern Caribbean
Frequency	88.1 FM
Branding	DBS Radio; The Nation's Station;
Programming
Format	Music / Talk / News
Ownership
Owner	Government of Dominica
History
First air date	November 1971
Technical information
Transmitter coordinates	15°17′42″N 61°23′08″W / 15.29495°N 61.38544°W
Links
Website	https://dbcradio.net

Dominica Broadcasting Corporation (also known on-air as DBS or DBS Radio) is the national radio station of the Commonwealth of Dominica.^[3] The service, owned by the local government,^[3] is headquartered on Victoria Street in the island's capital, Roseau.^[4] Broadcast on the 88.1 FM frequency^[2] (along with several others across the island nation),^[5] DBS' signal is also picked up across the Eastern Caribbean.^[1]

The company was founded in 1971 as Radio Dominica, and upon its launch replaced programming provided to the island by WIBS, the Windward Islands Broadcasting Service of Grenada.^[4] Programs from DBS over the years have included The Dominica Story (a year before its 1975 publication in book form)^[6] and Experience Kwéyòl (Espéwéyans Kwéyòl).^[7]^[8]

References

General

Honychurch, Lennox (1995). The Dominica Story (2nd ed.). Macmillan Education. ISBN 0-333-62776-8.

Specific

^ ^a ^b Brown, Aggrey; Sanatan, Roderick (1987). Talking with Whom?. Caribbean Institute of Mass Communication, University of the West Indies. p. 103. ISBN 978-976-41-0074-4. Retrieved 23 October 2023 – via Google Books Snippets. The Dominica Broadcasting Corporation operates a ten kilowatt radio station, which can be heard from the U.S.V.I. in the north to Trinidad in the south.
^ ^a ^b Crask, Paul (2008). "Media and Communications". Dominica. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-84162-217-0. Retrieved 23 October 2023 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Morse, Kimberly J., ed. (2022). "Dominica". The Americas: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. ABC-CLIO. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-440-85239-8. Retrieved 23 October 2023 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b ^c Honychurch 1995, p. 194, Development and Welfare: General Services.
^ Staff (2 November 2021). "Dominica Broadcasting Corporation (DBS Radio) celebrates 50 years of existence". Dominica News Online (DNO). Retrieved 23 October 2023.
^ Honychurch 1995, p. vii, Acknowledgements: The first edition.
^ Rabess, Gregory (15 November 1993). "Cadence: The Dominican Experience - The Impact of Cadence". In Guillbault, Jocelyne (ed.). Zouk: World Music in the West Indies. University of Chicago Press. p. 104. ISBN 0-226-31041-8. Retrieved 23 October 2023 – via Google Books.
^ Staff (2 August 2012). "Golden Drum awardees Felix Henderson and DBS Radio". Dominica News Online (DNO). Retrieved 23 October 2023.