Archive for the ‘Alternative Media’ Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
An article about an Arizona group who filed in the recent community radio licensing window in the United States discusses their hopes and plans. The Phoenix area, where they are based, is, it seems, the largest metropolitan area in the United States (3 million people) without a community station. Of ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
The United Kingdom has been rather late to the game in developing community radio - undoubtedly a legacy of the Thatcher years when, of course, we were informed that society (and presumably community) didn't exist. New stations are now, however, being rolled out, with the latest being an announcement today ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
I heard this first via a Twitter Tracking update, and then tracked down more detailed information online. It seems that Bangladesh may soon get community radio stations, something that has been pushed for for some time.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
I've placed the latest edition of A Critical Ear online. It's about 45 minutes, featuring phone interviews with Bob Naiman and Sam Husseini. Broadcast live on WRFU yesterday afternoon.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
A short item, but a heart-warming one. There's now a community radio broadcast station in Antarctica. They're looking for donations of content, preferably by CD or CD-R (as internet access is limited for them).
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Some funferal readers will be aware that one of my sidelines is a radio show I co-present on WRFU, called A Critical Ear. WRFU is currently in the midst of a major fundraising drive to pay for a new permanent tower (it's current mast, on top of the Independent Media Center ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
It's always interesting to consider the difference in scale between the costs of radio and television programming. Today the BCI announced €8.7m in funding for television programming, spread across 54 projects (out of 121 applications). With over €150k on average being provided for each project, one of the figures released by ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Community radio returns to Brattleboro with the launch of WVEW, serving southern Vermont (this time it's FCC-approved).Chef Ra, long-time WEFT DJ (Champaign, IL), and High Times columnist, has passed away. May he rest in peace.Meanwhile, a year-end review of the activities of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
There's continued reaction to (and coverage of) the news of India's new community radio policy, with many noting the significance of this development:In South Asia, Nepal is the only country where such radios have flourished. In India, citizens' groups have long argued for a 'third layer' of broadcasters, apart from ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
India has become the first [clarification: I left out the word "developing"] country to develop a policy on community radio:The policy says that the license will be given only to a 'non-profit' organization with at least three years social service to local communities and the Community Radio Station should serve ...
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