Archive for the ‘Alternative Media’ Category
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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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Newest student publication spotted around campus: The Liberal Media. Tagline? You may have heard of us....
It's just a photocopied sheet, back and front, but it's already on issue two. Articles like When the President does it, that means it's not illegal! and Privacy: Right?. It's put together by a ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
I'll be giving a talk to the Radio Society in NUI, Galway tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. The topic is "Community radio: the position of the sector in the twenty-first century." OK, it's not the most catchy title ever, but it was the best I could come up with.
The content should be ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Here in Urbana we're in the process of working to get our new radio station, WRFU, on the air. It's a whole lot of work, but thankfully we've got a good group of people working on it. We're also going to get help from people around the country when we ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Good news for community radio in the UK, where 18 new stations have been licensed. The Community Media Association notes that this is the Year of the Volunteer:Diane Reid, Director of the CMA, said: "In the Year of the Volunteer, we celebrate one of the fastest growing areas of volunteering ...
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