PHOTO CAPTION: V.O.C. Radio’s Andre Huie (left) interviewing Nevis Minister of Sports Eric Evelyn, during the live broadcast of the Gulf Insurance Primary School Championships on Wednesday March 28, 2018 at the newly opened Nevis Athletics Stadium.
PRESS RELEASE
Voice of the Caribbean Radio, the online radio station co-owned and managed by St. Kitts and Nevis based journalist Andre Huie, completed a successful live broadcast of the Gulf Insurance Primary School Championships on Nevis last Wednesday. Mr. Huie was the commentator who provided coverage of the event, which comprised interviews with sports and government officials on Nevis and St. Kitts. He further disclosed that approximately 706 listeners tuned in over the duration of the broadcasts and several hundreds more for the rebroadcast on Saturday from 12am to 8am from several countries including St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, the USA and Puerto Rico among others.
On Tuesday April 3 and Wednesday April 4 at 10am and 4pm on both days, the station will air a rebroadcast of segments of the broadcast comprising mainly of interviews done with the St. Kitts and Nevis Amateur Athletics Association (SKNAAA) Vice President Evris Huggins, the PS in the Ministry of Education on Nevis, the Nevis Minister of Sports and the Director of the Department of Sports in St. Kitts Mr. Anthony Wiltshire. Interested patrons are asked to tune in at www.voiceofthecaribbean.net or on the station’s Android Mobile app or on Tune In Radio.
The championships held for the first time at the newly minted Nevis Athletics Stadium, the Caribbean’s first nine lane Mondo track, was broadcast live on Voice of the Caribbean Radio and several Nevis-based media houses including VON Radio and NTV. Voice of the Caribbean Radio said in a press release that Mr. Huie is pleased with the outcome of the station’s first outside broadcast.
“I would like to thank God Almighty for the strength and intellectual capacity to deliver this broadcast to our listeners. Secondly, I would like to thank my team, namely staffers of our parent company Palm Branch Media, who worked tirelessly in making this event a success. Our staffers at SKN Newsline also ensured that we had video coverage of the event, which we were able to present in our news package the next day,” Huie said. “This is just the beginning of more to come so we encourage out listeners and fans all over the world to stay tuned. V.O.C. Radio will be doing more live broadcasts in the future of events in St. Kitts and Nevis and the wider Caribbean,” he added.
Voice of the Caribbean (VOC Radio) is a Caribbean radio station designed for Caribbean listeners in the Diaspora and around the region who desire to stay in tuned to all things Caribbean. The latest stats show the station registering over 40,000 listeners for March spanning from Europe, North America and the Caribbean including St. Maarten, St. Kitts and Nevis, the UK, The Netherlands, France and Germany among other countries.
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