ICCI-FM
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ICCI-FM is a non-commercial radio station
in the Cayman Islands
in the British West Indies
. The station is owned by the International College of the Cayman Islands
and broadcasts from Newlands on Grand Cayman
. It airs a college radio 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
and Spanish
.
ICCI-FM was the first licensed radio station in the Cayman Islands and first broadcast in May 1973. The station's latest license was issued on 11 December 2003.
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
in the Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...
in the British West Indies
British West Indies
The British West Indies was a term used to describe the islands in and around the Caribbean that were part of the British Empire The term was sometimes used to include British Honduras and British Guiana, even though these territories are not geographically part of the Caribbean...
. The station is owned by the International College of the Cayman Islands
International College of the Cayman Islands
The International College of the Cayman Islands is a U.S. accredited non-profit, private, four-year independent institution of higher education which opened in the fall of 1970...
and broadcasts from Newlands on Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the nation's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles southwest of Cayman Brac.-Geography:Grand Cayman encompasses 76% of...
. It airs a college radio 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
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
.
ICCI-FM was the first licensed radio station in the Cayman Islands and first broadcast in May 1973. The station's latest license was issued on 11 December 2003.