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was for a while also used to rebroadcast NBS Radio 610 AM as an FM signal. Under the re-branded International Communications Network (ICN), 91.1 FM eventually changed its format entirely to East Indian programming in 1998. Radio 610 continued to broadcast on the AM dial, but progressively lost its traditional listening audience due to a weakening of the quality of its broadcast signal and a reduction in allocated financial resources to upgrade its equipment and programming.
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In 1995, with the addition of Radio 98.9 FM, catering largely to the urban youth, the National Broadcasting Service (i.e. the radio frequencies) were relocated to the TTT compound at 11A Maraval Road in Port of Spain. Yet a further frequency came on board shortly thereafter - 91.1 FM. This frequency
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and renamed the National Broadcasting Service of Trinidad and Tobago (NBS Radio 610), although continued to be referred to by its old name. The radio broadcast and production studios continued to be located at 17 Abercromby Street in downtown
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In 2001 there was another name change, with ICN rebranded as the National Broadcasting Network (NBN). Due to financial losses, both radio and TV broadcast entities of NBN ceased operations at midnight on January 15, 2005.
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led by the Jamaat al-Muslimeen on July 27, 1990, NBS Radio remained on the air around the clock as the only source of information for listeners in the country, up the eastern
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The precursor to the National Broadcasting Service (NBS Radio) was Radio Guardian, established on October 13, 1957, by the Thompson Group, the British owners of the
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On October 6, 1972, the National Broadcasting Service became the first media company in Trinidad & Tobago to operate an
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In early 2007, a newly created state-owned media company began operations under the name of the
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Forty Years of Steel: An Annotated Discography of Steel Band and Pan Recordings, 1951-1991
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acquired Radio Guardian and Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT). Radio Guardian was
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Surlin, S.H.; Soderlund, W.C.; Soderlund, W.C. (1990).
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newspaper. On November 1, 1969, the Government under
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