How we checked VOB 92.9 FM
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 8 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
The news and current affairs station of the Starcom Network in Barbados. Its own landing page opens "Welcome to Voice of Barbados 92.9 FM", calls it "Your No. 1 news and current affairs station", and continues "Since 1981, listeners have been tuning into Voice of Barbados - VOB 92.9 FM (back then it was 790AM on the dial!) for the latest in music, news, commentary". Its schedule is built around a long-running daily call-in programme, news bulletins and specialist shows on cricket, agriculture and business.
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Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Artists
Not applicable. No playlist or song history is published for this station.
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Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Contact route
two telephone numbers, a postal address for Starcom Network Inc. in St Michael, and a contact form on the station's own page, alongside its own Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. Two of its programmes are built on listeners telephoning in.
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Voice of Barbados 92.9 FM, Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://starcomnetwork.net/advertising/
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Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Era
Not the point for a news and talk station.
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Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Music
News, current affairs and talk, with music.
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Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Language
English.
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Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Kind
live presented news, current affairs and music radio.
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Voice of Barbados 92.9 FM, Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
the station has been on air since 1981, when it broadcast on 790 AM rather than its present FM frequency, and it describes Down to Brasstacks as the nation's most listened-to call-in programme.
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Voice of Barbados 92.9 FM, Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Where
Barbados, on 92.9 FM; its own landing page records that the station was formerly on 790 AM.
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Starcom Network | 2026 |
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On air
David Ellis, Barry Wilkinson, Walter Blackman, Dr. Kristina Hinds and Taahir Bulbulia moderate Down to Brasstacks. Larry Mayers presents Around VOB Country. Ken Husbands presents Your Choice, with an in-house guest co-hosting.
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Voice of Barbados 92.9 FM, Starcom Network | 2026 |
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Programmes
Down to Brasstacks, the station's call-in social commentary programme. Around VOB Country. VOB Magical Extravaganza, broadcast live on the last Sunday of each month from 21:00 to midnight. Your Choice, on which listeners call in and request a song. Fireworks, a seasonal show each Crop Over.
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Voice of Barbados 92.9 FM, Starcom Network | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| homepage url | https://vob929.com/ → https://www.starcomnetwork.net/vob-929-fm-landing/ | The stored address https://vob929.com/ no longer serves the station. It answers HTTP 301 with Location https://www.starcomnetwork.net/vob-929-fm-landing/, which is a different registrable domain and so would be refused by the homepage guard as stored. The destination is the operator's own: Starcom Network Inc operates VOB, and that page is the station's own landing page, opening 'Welcome to Voice of Barbados 92.9 FM', 'Your No. 1 news and current affairs station' and 'Since 1981, listeners have been tuning into Voice of Barbados - VOB 92.9 FM (back then it was 790AM on the dial!)'. I read that text through the site's own WordPress feed at https://starcomnetwork.net/feed/?s=call-in+show because the rendered pages answer only with a Cloudflare managed challenge from this agent. I am proposing the address the redirect actually lands on, with the www host as the Location header gives it; note that the site's own feed declares its canonical link without www, so if the guard prefers the canonical form, https://starcomnetwork.net/vob-929-fm-landing/ is the same page. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| Material from the four sister stations on the same operator site, HOTT 95.3 FM, Life 97.5 FM, Q100.7 FM and The Beat 104.1 | they are separate services with their own formats, and the operator site presents all five together.
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| The Beat Drive, weekdays 3pm to 8pm, and its announcer Stokely Murray | that is The Beat 104.1's programme and presenter, sitting on the same operator site one page away from VOB's.
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| Barry Wilkinson, Walter Blackman, Dr. Kristina Hinds and Taahir Bulbulia as further Brass Tacks moderators | these names reached me only through a search index summary of the programme page, which I could not open, so I do not publish them as read.
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| The Lunchtime Edition and The 7:30 Edition news bulletins from the operator's own podcast feed | the feed is network level and nowhere states that these are VOB's rather than another Starcom station's, so I do not attribute them to this row.
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| Starcom Network's founding as Radio Distribution (Barbados) Ltd in October 1934 | that is the operator's history, not this station's, which its own page dates from 1981.
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| The rendered station pages at starcomnetwork.net | they answer only with a Cloudflare managed challenge from this agent, so everything above was read instead through the site's own WordPress feed, which returns the same page text and is the one door open on that host.
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| The Beat FM and Flight To Classics | both appear in the podcast list on this station's own page but belong to sister stations in the same group, and attributing a network's other services to one of its channels is the commonest near-miss in this catalogue.
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| the station's telephone numbers and postal address | this catalogue does not put contact details on a station page.
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current as at 2026.
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