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ZBM-TV was founded in January 1958 by Bermuda Broadcasting Company as the first local television station in Bermuda. Before then, residents living near Kindley Field at the East End of Bermuda could watch television via unauthorized reception of the TV signal on base.
The station was owned by the DeFontes Group, a Bermuda-based company which also owned and operated radio stations on the island. On August 31, 2014, VSB-TV ceased broadcasting over the air due to financial difficulties; it had not launched digital operations in ATSC, Bermuda's digital television format. The news operation continued online for ...
In 1963, three companies applied for a second television station. A commission was set up to receive these applications. The companies were the Atlantic Broadcasting Company, owners of ZFB Radio, the Bermuda Broadcasting Company, owners of ZBM-TV and the Tele Radio Company, headed by television engineer Eugene Woods, who worked at ZBK-TV (channel 10, 1955 to 1959).
BERMUDA (Reuters) -Hurricane Ernesto churned towards Bermuda on Friday as a powerful Category 2 storm likely to produce a foot (30 cm) of rainfall over the weekend and trigger life-threatening ...
Until 2014, there was a third station on the island, VSB-TV channel 11, an NBC affiliate, owned by the locally based DeFontes Group. All of these television stations are commercial - there is no equivalent to the US's PBS, and the UK's BBC in Bermuda. Another TV station, Fresh Creations, is a community TV station.
The Bermuda Broadcasting Company's radio stations and TV stations use the call letters "ZFB" and "ZBM". [1] The ZBM call sign has been in use since 1953 for an AM radio station, since 1962 for an FM radio station, making it one of the oldest in Bermuda. Beginning in 1958, the call sign was use for the first Bermudian television station.
All broadcast television stations serving the islands of Bermuda operate from the city of Hamilton, Bermuda. The current television stations in Bermuda include: ZFB-TV, an ABC affiliate owned by Bermuda Broadcasting; ZBM-TV, a CBS affiliate owned by Bermuda Broadcasting; The other television station formerly serving across this country was:
The station was sold again, this time to the similarly named Radio Station WUNI Inc. on August 1, 1976. [ 12 ] In October 1983, Radio Station WUNI, Inc., agreed to sell the station to country music legend Mel Tillis through his Tillis Communications, Inc. [ 13 ] The deal was approved by the FCC on December 2, 1983. [ 14 ]