Archive for the ‘Alternative Media’ Category
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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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Word from Kevin Mac Namidhe that Province 5 television, the community service in Co. Meath which had been operating under Ministerial Order, and which just recently signed a 10 year contract with the BCI to cover future operation, is launching its service on 7 December on Chorus and also online. ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
mostly revamped studioOriginally uploaded by diymedia.The WRFU studio was revamped in my absence. Can't wait to see it in person during my show this week. Good to see the new equipment, though I would have liked some more script space, and perhaps better cable ducting along the side ...
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Last Monday, May Day, as I passed a newspaper bin on campus that usually holds copies of a conservative freesheet I noticed that it held instead a number of copies of a glossy publication that featured the unlikely question "Where is the Revolution?"
It turns out that this is an issue ...
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Last Thursday the BCI signed a contract with the first community TV station in Ireland, DCTV.DCTV will offer a range of means by which the community can learn about, manage and participate in television. Participation in the station and programming output will be guided by the founding objectives of ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Liberation is reporting that community radio is in danger in France due to a plan to phase out the current funding support that the station receive. At present the stations are automatically entitled to financial support (which comes from a tax on the advertising receipts of commercial stations) as long ...
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