The fate of a radio station

Brunei has five radio channels beside Netradio that could be access through Internet. Listeners in fact have the privilege tuning other neighbouring stations as where and when they like.

Occasionally we read complains about radio service. We should consider the duration of DJ on air and how many thousand words they utter in the process of delivering info and entertain the listeners. There‘re bound to be slip of the tongue, though the manager wish his DJ make no mistakes. Now let’s consider if there is no radio service. Payah jua tu. I pick up a news from Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Website (CBA) on struggles of Kirabati (pronouns Kiribas) to stay on air.

“Radio Kiribati is facing an acute shortage of daily earnings, and had to cut its staffing to remain on air. Pacific Magazine reports that the national radio station's acting manager, Tibwere Bobo, says the problem began two weeks ago, when Radio Kiribati's AM transmission was off-air due to a break down in the transmitter. "Our engineers after installing the spare parts would have to monitor it before they can declare that our problem had been solved," he said. "This could take a few days." The station is maintaining its FM transmission which only covers South Tarawa and the remote Line and Phoenix Groups.
But money generated from this service on a daily basis is minimal and not enough to cover the daily expense of Radio Kiribati transmissions. The radio station is trying to cut costs, and has applied for an overdraft from the bank. Mr Bobo says more measures will have to be taken if the AM transmission is not restored soon.
Kasihan…. How lucky Bruneians are compared with this island nation. We’ve no license, no tax.


Diddy, one of the the Pelangi DJ. U're lucky cos the station is funded by the government. And futhermore u've a lot of peminat. Station pun stable. But, nya orang putih don't sit on the laurel.