Nauru - political overviewIndependencePacific Islands Radio Telegraph Company proposalGerman South Sea Company for Wireless TelegraphyWorld War IPostmaster-General''s Department, Australia (1)Amalgamated Wireless (A/asia)World War II
It is likely that the radio-telephony facilities on the island, from at least the 1950s, were also used to broadcast news and information to residents of the island when the station was not required for commercial traffic. A low power AM radio broadcasting station is stated to have been established at Nauru at the time of independence in 1968; however, it is believed that the station had been in operation for several years prior to that. Frequency allocated was 1320 kHz, but this was changed in 1978 to 132