ICCI-FM (101.1
FM) is a non-commercial
radio station
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in the
Cayman Islands in the
British West Indies
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.
The station is owned by the
International College of the Cayman Islands
The International College of the Cayman Islands (ICCI) is an non-profit, private, four-year independent institution of higher education which opened in the fall of 1970. It is the oldest college in the Cayman Islands and is located in Newlands ...
and broadcasts from Newlands on
Grand Cayman
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. It airs a
College radio
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format blending music and news. ICCI-FM serves as a training workshop for broadcasting students of the college.
Talk programming includes locally produced shows recorded in both
English
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* English language
* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national id ...
and
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
.
ICCI-FM was the first radio station to broadcast from within the Cayman Islands and remains the oldest continuously broadcasting radio station in the Cayman Islands. As the first licensed radio station in the Cayman Islands it began broadcasting in May 1973.
The station's latest license was issued on 11 December 2003.
References
External links
International College of the Cayman Islands
Radio stations in the Cayman Islands
Radio stations established in 1973
Campus, college, student and university radio stations
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