Radio Saint Helena (call-sign: ''ZHH'') was a local radio station serving the
South Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...
island of
Saint Helena. Broadcasting on an
AM frequency of 1548 kHz (194 m), the station was audible within a range of about 100 km from the island.
The organisation which ran the service, St Helena News Media Services, also produced a weekly newspaper, the ''St Helena Herald''. The offices were located at Broadway House,
Jamestown, whilst the station's broadcasts were radiated from a transmitter in
St Paul's. The first broadcast was on Christmas Day 1967 broadcasting on 1511 KHz until 1978.
Radio St Helena also broadcast internationally on one day each year – on 11.0925 MHz
shortwave – using the call-sign ''ZHH-50''. Many of the station's regular presenters took part in this event, known as "Radio St Helena Day", thereby enjoying the experience of broadcasting to audiences all around the world.
In March 2012 St Helena News Media Services was dissolved, and the final edition of the ''Herald'' was published on 9 March 2012. The company was replaced by the ''St Helena Broadcasting Corporation (SHBC)'', which was to be funded by the island's government. SHBC was also to publish a weekly newspaper, and run three FM radio stations, one of them a relay of the
BBC World Service. The privately owned station ''
Saint FM'' declined to join the new enterprise.
[Andy Senitt: ]
Radio St Helena to go off the air this year
''. In: Media Network. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
Radio St Helena closed down at midnight on Christmas Day, 25 December 2012. This, following the earlier closure of Saint FM on 21 December, left Saint Helena with no broadcast radio service at all until Saint FM was relaunched on 10 March 2013 as
Saint FM Community Radio.
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1967 establishments in Saint Helena and Dependencies
2012 disestablishments in Saint Helena and Dependencies
Radio stations disestablished in 2012
Radio stations established in 1967
Radio stations in Saint Helena
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom