Archive for November, 2006

Community Services grant for prospective community radio group in Athlone

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Yet more Irish community radio stations on the horizon, with word of a group in Athlone that has just succceeded in gaining a government grant to support its work on planning for a station:The plans for Luain FM Community Radio for Athlone are progressing well with the addition of funding ...

Nepalese station recognized by community radio movement

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

The AMARC International Solidarity Prize, announced at the AMARC conference currently taking place in Jordan, has been awarded to a Nepalese station:After King Gyanendra of Nepal seized control of the country in a coup in February 2005, Radio Sagarmatha helped form the Save the Independent Radios Movement to protest against ...

Community radio roundup

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

India's new community radio policy is continuing to get lots of coverage, with some reports beginning to look forward to its practical impacts. India eNews has a feature piece about a station about 100 km from Hyderabad which hopes to finally launch a station, having previously played their content at ...

Arsonists strike community station in Australia

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Bad news for a community station in Australia - 4TTT - that had its outside broadcast studio (a converted caravan) destroyed by arsonists over the weekend.Mr Mintern said the station was still trying to count up the financial cost of the fire. He said the van and the equipment had originally ...

RFI banned from broadcasting to Rwanda

Monday, November 27th, 2006

A row between Rwanda and FranceRwanda severed diplomatic ties with France on Friday after a French judge implicated President Paul Kagame in the assassination of his predecessor.has had some fall-out for Radio France International, which has been banned from broadcasting (FM) signals to Rwanda by the Rwandan government. "What?", you ...

VoteTube encourages use of online tools in Irish political activism

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Just in time for this new report about online video eroding TV viewing comes Simon McGarr's new project, VoteTube, a competition for "the most entertaining, most persuasive and most effective political and civic message videos made about Ireland." Coming on foot of Simon's call for greater political engagement, this is a ...

Microphone surveillance for London Olympics?

Monday, November 27th, 2006

When Blunkett's opposing police proposals you know they must be really over the top...

Local podcast aggregators – have they a role?

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

It's interesting to see the emergence of groups such as PodcastMN, an aggregator of Minnesota podcasts. We've seen local and niche blog aggregators, such as Indyblogs or Irish Bloggers. I wonder how audio aggregators will develop. Will they become another conduit for getting material to listeners (and for listeners to ...

Of coalitions, racism, and the U of I

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Since being pointed to it by the fine folks at the Prisonship I've been reading and rereading the Red Pepper interview with Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau. There's just so much food for thought here, for scholars and activists. Not only do they clearly articulate the shortcomings of a Habermasian approach ...

Fun with numbers

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

The British Labour Party has come out swinging at the SNP at their national conference:The home secretary's attack followed an ICM survey for the Sunday Telegraph which suggested support for Scottish independence had reached 52% among Scots and 59% in England.Yes, that's right - more English people favour Scottish independence ...