Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was founded in December 1958 by legislation and launched on the 15th of June 1959. It was established by Premier Norman Manley as a state-owned statutory corporation modelled on broadcasters such as the BBC and the CBC.
JBC Television began broadcasting on Sunday, the 4th of August 1963, at six in the evening. The launch was timed to mark the first anniversary of Jamaican independence, and it was the second television service launched in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was founded by Norman Manley, who was Premier of Jamaica at the time. His son Michael Manley later used the JBC as a vehicle for nation building after becoming Prime Minister in 1972.
In 1997, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson divested the JBC under the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica Act. The television service and Radio 2 were sold to Radio Jamaica Limited for J$70 million, and the former JBC channel was replaced by the commercial station Television Jamaica.
Lime Tree Lane was Jamaica's first soap opera, produced by the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. It was created during Michael Manley's administration in the 1970s as part of increased government funding for original Jamaican programming.
When the JBC's regional radio stations were sold off under the privatisation drive of the 1980s, they became Radio Waves (HOT 102), KLAS-FM, and IRIE-FM.