Inside the Receiving Station 1957

According to Tan Kai Han( the smiling face in this photo) this was a temporary set up of the communication equipment inside the Receiving Station. Radio Brunei had to set up its own telephone dedicated system to Tutong (see the hand cranked telephone set on the table).

Thank You Tan for your contributions

Radio Brunei Receiving Station

This receiving station at Bukit Silela was the vital broadcast and communication link between the studio and Tutong Transmitting station (20KW) since 1957 to 1975. It also served a the center of receiving foreign news (Reuters) in teleprinter in hard copy format that several collection a day by the driver to the News Room. A very Rre Photo from Tan Kai Han

The first Radio Brunei OB Van 1959

Tan Kai Han (3rd from the left) found this photo in his collections, thanks Tan

Group photo 1959

A very rare group photo taken in front of the 2nd Radio Brunei Building maybe in 1959/1960

Contribution of this photo from Tan Kai Han

Field Strength Measurement Team -Radio Brunei 1959

Chief Engineer Michael Chen led a team to the Ulu Belait for field strength measurement in 1959 when KB studio commenced operation.

(photo: R to L )

Michael Chen - Chief Engineer

Goh Han Chiang -Senior Technical 

Pg Mohammad Matsaruddin

Perera -Guide & Out boat driver from Marine Dept

Tan Kai Hian - Chief Technical 

Photo contributed by Tan Kai Han

Radio Brunei Staff photo in 1960

                                                                                                                                                                        This could be the complete staff working in 1960 except a few working at the remote transmitting and receiving stations.

The 2nd Radio Brunei Studio complex

Radio Brunei moved into this studio complex in 1958. This building was situated next to the Brunei Government Secretariat Building(now known as the Chief Minister's Office) in Brunei Town (now known as the Bandar Seri Begawan.) there were 3 purposed built studios, several administrative offices, News and radio production offices (3 languages), a record library and engineering workshop and technical store. The Studios were: STUDIO A for general purpose recording studios of music and drama productions as well as for group interview studios. One ON-AIR studio and another similar one for production recording studio cum standby ON-AIR studio.

Please check out more photos of these studios set-up and activities to be published very soon.