A government-owned service and a member of the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), ZIZ carries its programming across four FM frequencies and one TV channel; the AM outlet remained in operation as late as the 2010s.

[2] Headquartered in the Springfield neighbourhood of Basseterre,[1] it was relaunched with £23,000 in Colonial Development and Welfare funds from 1959,[2] plus an EC$1.25 million loan from Cable & Wireless,[13] under the presence of West Indies Federation Governor-General Lord Hailes.

[15] Although the revived ZIZ started out as a public service, it would soon switch to a revenue-based commercial format to keep it on air, a move that "was received with very great regret by many people" in early 1963 according to the Committee.

[3] Throughout the mid-1980s, the station aired 5½ hours of programming every weeknight,[19] and ran a separate telex-based information channel on the island country's newly established cable system.

[18]: 47  In 2001, its lineup aired from 4:00 till 11:00 p.m., switching to Fox Family programming during off hours; in Nevis, the 7:00–11:00 portion carried material from that island's Information Service.

[25] The television service, which airs on channel 5,[4] served the entire Leeward archipelago in the 1970s[3] and was included in the mid-1984 launch of the national cable system.