Michael Nicholson

I'm Mike Nicholson. I work at the radio station.

The radio starts with my dad. He started with a ham radio when he was going to school in Curaçao and Aruba. So, he starts off with a ham radio, and from the ham radio, then he said, "You know, something? I think I would like to start a AM radio station." He got around to all the islands, so all islands was listening, you know? Then things change into FM, so right now we are FM 93.9 and you also can catch us on the internet on Q 939 FM. So we worldwide right now, all over the world.

We've been doing this about 50 years now. It was called the Voice of Saba, and today we name it Saba Radio. We are located in The Bottom on Saba, that's where our studios are. And our transmitter — we have two transmitter sites, one in St. John's, and one is in The Level on Saba — that makes [it so] that you can hear us all over the island, and all over the other islands like Anguilla, and Sint Maarten, St. Martin, St. Barths, Stasia.

We play contemporary music and we bring different programs from the islands. We picks up news from Stasia, Island Radio from St. Maarten, we have Dr. Soc on from 8 until 10, and then we picks up Bonaire 99.9 FM which is Papiamento, so that people from the island can listen in Papiamento to what's going on in Bonaire and Curaçao and Aruba. And also on the weekends, we bring the Dutch station. But Saba … this is the only station Saba has. This is the Voice of Saba or Saba Radio.

Saba has changed over the years, yes. You have more homes from young people building up. We have a lot of things that take place, which is good. And you have a balance, you know? But it's not overcrowded. It's just good. It's just good.