Thursday, 12 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2566

There are 8 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Brazil: Lula to Decriminalise Unlicensed Community Radios
From: George Lessard

2. Do-it-yourself pirate radio kits available now
From: George Lessard

3. Windsor, Ontario, Canada - CJAM licence in jeopardy
From: George Lessard

4. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur: Community radio station to b
From: George Lessard

5a. Chennai,India: Growth of community radio on the upswing
From: George Lessard
5b. Re: Chennai,India: Growth of community radio on the upswing
From: Vickram Crishna

6. Burkina Faso: Médias : Une radio communautaire pour la commune de
From: George Lessard

7. MENA Fw: Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast Law
From: tamara aqrabawe


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1. Brazil: Lula to Decriminalise Unlicensed Community Radios
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:30 pm ((PST))

Brazil: Lula to Decriminalise Unlicensed Community Radios
Amisnet - Italy
A cura di Francesco Diasio • 11 Febbraio 2009

<http://mediascape.amisnet.org/2009/02/11/brazil-lula-to-decriminalise-unlicensed-community-radios/>

In January 2009, Brazilian President Lula sent a bill to Congress which
would decriminalise the operation of a community radio without a license.
This is a long-standing demand by community radio associations and freedom
of expression organisations in Brazil.

ARTICLE 19 has in its work repeatedly highlighted the obligation on States
to promote pluralism and diversity in the media, as an aspect of the right
to freedom of expression. International law recognises the important
contribution that community broadcasting, along with commercial and public
service broadcasters, can make to realising media pluralism. We therefore
welcome this initiative.

At the same time, we note that far more needs to be done to create a
proper enabling environment for public interest broadcasting in Brazil.
Current Brazilian regulatory policies and practices are not conducive to
the development of community broadcasting. Thousands of community radios
around the country are waiting to receive a license, in part due to the
lengthy and inefficient licensing process, which is not adapted to their
needs or situation, and in part due to the fact that an inadequate number
of licences have been allocated for community radio use. Community radios
still face potential civil or administrative measures for operating
without a licence, which can also have a harsh impact on them.

Data provided by the Federal Police in 2007 indicate that by August 2007,
1,800 community radios had been closed down and had their equipment
confiscated, and many individuals have been criminally charged for
operating 'illegal' radios. There are many accounts of intimidation and
violence by police officers and other authorities relating to these
closures.

ARTICLE 19 calls on the Brazilian government to undertake a comprehensive
reform of the regulatory regime for broadcasting, including creating an
enabling environment for community broadcasters. Urgent measures should
also be taken to speed up the processing of existing licence applications.


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2. Do-it-yourself pirate radio kits available now
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:32 pm ((PST))

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Subject: [MRN] Do-it-yourself pirate radio kits available now
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Date: Wed, February 11, 2009 20:02
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Do-it-yourself pirate radio kits available now

http://artthreat.net/2009/02/do-it-yourself-pirate-radio-kits-available-now/

February 2009

Ever wanted to make your own pirate radio station? Well, you're in
luck. The folks at Free Radio Berkeley http://www.freeradio.org/
have put together a short video that walks you through the actual
making of a 10 watt FM transmitter. That's enough radio juice to
broadcast in a 3-4 mile radius.

[See URL for video.]

The fun thing is they will send you all the parts – they sell the
kits for between $280 (15 watts) and $1050 (300 watts). And all you
have to do is sit down with your soldering iron (and leadfree
soldier) and follow along. Now, I own a 2 watt transmitter that I
built under the tutelage of Canadian performance artist (and former
electrical engineer) Bobbi Kozinuk, who in turn developed the
transmitter design from Tetsuo Kogawa's pioneering work in the 1980s in
Japan.

Owning your own portable radio station is pretty much the funnest
thing you'll ever do. I've broadcast a show in East Vancouver about a
movement to stop a disastrous transportation plan, and also in Cape
Breton with the Chapel Island First Nation, the first time they had
ever heard their own voices, music and language broadcast locally. A
microtransmitter is also a wonderful art tool – used it once to help
stage a performance in a parkade across the street from a gallery,
audience on the roof, performers engaged in clandestine movement,
music, and delight.

To be fair, it is a little complicated to put together a transmitter,
soldering is a skill and some of the components can be fried by too
much heat, but it seems like the folks at Free Radio Berkeley are
doing this for all of the right reasons and will likely be available
to help you get through any tricky patches.

Overall, the video is a great introduction, maybe not quite enough to
have you broadcasting to your friends and fellow citizens
immediately, but with a little dedication, patience, a few emails and
maybe a telephone call or two to the Free Radio Berkeley pirate radio
champions, a radio station could be yours. Radio Free Berkeley is a
pirate radio station that has been broadcasting in the Berkeley area
on a 50 watt transmitter since 1993. Props to Ceci Moss at Rhizome
for picking up on the video.

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3. Windsor, Ontario, Canada - CJAM licence in jeopardy
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:54 pm ((PST))

CJAM licence in jeopardy
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada

Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2009

After 25 years on the air, University of Windsor's community radio station
CJAM-FM (91.5) could lose its licence in an international turf war between
the U.S. and Canada.

Adam Fox, CJAM manager, said there is a real concern the station's FM
frequency will be taken over by a commercial radio station in Michigan.

"The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has already granted a licence
to a station in China Township," said Fox.

It is located in St. Clair County, north of Port Huron, but its signal
power would reach the Detroit-Windsor market and the frequency would no
longer be available to CJAM.

[..]

The FCC earlier forced its Canadian counterpart, the CRTC, to impose
restrictions on CJAM because it claimed the signal was interfering with
WUOM-FM (91.7), the University of Michigan student radio service in Ann
Arbor.

In response, CJAM has applied to move its signal up the FM dial to 99.1,
and seek protected status under CRTC-FCC regulations. That would protect
other stations from effectively jumping CJAM's claim.

"We need our audience to write the CRTC and voice their approval," said
Fox. "Otherwise, we could find ourselves off the air."

Interventions for or against the application can be made online at
www.crtc.ca, by fax at 819-994-0218, or by mail to: CRTC, Ottawa, Ont.,
K1A 0N2.

While CJAM has occupied a spot on FM for 25 years, its history as a
community and college radio service stretches back to the early 1950s.

It began as the Assumption Music Appreciation Society on AM radio in 1952,
eventually becoming the Assumption Radio Club before joining Canada
Student Radio network. It operated as CSRW (Canada Student Radio Windsor),
a low-power community station on 550-AM until 1977 when the CRTC approved
its name change to CJAM.

The move to FM came in 1983. In 1997, CJAM boosted its signal power from
50 to 1,000 watts, but that's where some of the trouble started.

When it increased its signal power, it could be heard in Metro Detroit,
and raised the ire of stations in Michigan. The FCC, in an effort to
protect the interests of WUOM, forced the CRTC to retain CJAM's
lower-power designation, making it an unprotected signal.

By moving to 99.1, Fox said, the station will continue to be heard in
parts of Metro Detroit, but it should not pose a problem to other
broadcasters in the same spectrum.

CJAM is a community radio station with a mandate to broadcast
non-mainstream music content, which restricts it to less than 12 per cent
of current hits. Fox said the station seldom plays more than one or two
per cent hits.

The station also offers community promotions, multicultural content on
weekends, and programs which address such things as women's issues, gay
rights and labour.


© The Windsor Star 2009

More at:

<http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/entertainment/story.html?id=2f4306f2-c8e3-44f3-8a82-60837f05a91a>

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4. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur: Community radio station to b
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:57 pm ((PST))

IIT's community radio station to benefit unskilled labourers, housewives

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200902102081.htm

New Delhi (PTI): The government on Tuesday approved setting up of a
community radio station by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
aimed at students, housewives, skilled and unskilled labourers in the
vicinity.

The station to be set up at the Media Technology Centre of IIT Kanpur is
expected to be operational within three months as per a Grant of
Permission Agreement with the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

The community radio station will disseminate information on healthcare,
agriculture, science and technology in addition to the literacy programmes
for children and adults. The station will also provide a platform to run
awareness campaign on social issues.

The ministry has encouraged the community radio station with the view that
it promises to provide an opportunity to local communities to express
themselves and particularly empower women, youth and marginalised groups
to take part in self-governance and cultural development of the area.


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5a. Chennai,India: Growth of community radio on the upswing
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:02 pm ((PST))

Growth of community radio on the upswing
Hindu - Chennai,India

Chennai (PTI): The growth of community radio in the country is on the
upswing and number of functional Community Radio Stations (CRS) has grown
from 27 last year to 41 today, with 38 of them located in educational
institutions, a top official of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry
said.

'The Ministry has issued letters of intent to about 129 institutions for
setting up CRS. This includes 70 educational institutions, 31 NGOs and
nine state agricultural universities among others," Esther Kar,Additional
Director General, Press Information Bureau (PIB), said in her inaugural
address at the Second Capacity Building Workshop on Community Radio here
on Tuesday.

Out of these, 21 institutions have received their Standing Advisory
Committee on Radio Frequency Allocation (SACFA) clearance and eight have
signed the Grant of Permission Agreement, she said. As a word of wisdom
for those running CRS, she said frequency was a national and "currently
somewhat limited resource" and urged them to use it "optimally."

Terming broadcast as a "hungry monster" which called for "constant, rich,
relevant and meaningful feed," she said operators can tie-up with
like-minded organaisations in the same area if they could not generate the
content by themselves.

<http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200902101736.htm>


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5b. Re: Chennai,India: Growth of community radio on the upswing
Posted by: "Vickram Crishna" v1clist@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:23 pm ((PST))

"As a word of wisdom for those running CRS, she said frequency was a national and "currently somewhat limited resource" and urged them to use it "optimally." Terming broadcast as a "hungry monster" which called for "constant, rich, relevant and meaningful feed," she said operators can tie-up with like-minded organisations in the same area if they could not generate the content by themselves."

What warm memories this news brings back!

High school days, discovering George Orwell, first Animal Farm.... then 1984, and the Ministry of Truth working overtime to help citizens rediscover the truth, or newspeak... and Shakespeare.

We now know that the number of stations has gone up (to 42 by our count, but the Ministry has said it is 41, and the Ministry is full of honorable people), but now we can cheerfully update our memories, given this heartening information, that the Ministry had announced the purpose of its Policy was to have 4,000 independent stations on the air at the end of 2008.

Foolishly*, we had believed in a rosy vision, that they would be stations run by ordinary persons for their own informational benefit. The Ministry has done otherwise**, allocating over 92% of the stations to persons graced by their educational qualifications, who have the virtue of belonging to a sector that has proven its elite credentials, by leaving gigantic swathes of the country functionally illiterate - oh sorry, did I say illiterate? I mean of course having the ability to leave less than illegible marks on paper purporting to represent names.


*misguided by our utterly naive and false memories of leader after
leader over the past 67 years telling us about our infinite capacity for self-reliance

**And the Ministry must be right, for they are all honorable persons

By the way, I attended the Nasscom (IT industry association) annual forum yesterday, to find out that the partner country is Brasil (which, just like India, is the largest country in its region, with diverse people and languages). What a shame that the our democracy is unable to take a leaf from Brasil's example, given the current news that President Lula has moved a bill to decriminalise community broadcasters running unlicensed stations.

Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com


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From: George Lessard <media@web.net>
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 7:33:31
Subject: [creative-radio] Chennai,India: Growth of community radio on the upswing


Growth of community radio on the upswing
Hindu - Chennai,India

Chennai (PTI): The growth of community radio in the country is on the
upswing and number of functional Community Radio Stations (CRS) has grown
from 27 last year to 41 today, with 38 of them located in educational
institutions, a top official of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry
said.

'The Ministry has issued letters of intent to about 129 institutions for
setting up CRS. This includes 70 educational institutions, 31 NGOs and
nine state agricultural universities among others," Esther Kar,Additional
Director General, Press Information Bureau (PIB), said in her inaugural
address at the Second Capacity Building Workshop on Community Radio here
on Tuesday.

Out of these, 21 institutions have received their Standing Advisory
Committee on Radio Frequency Allocation (SACFA) clearance and eight have
signed the Grant of Permission Agreement, she said. As a word of wisdom
for those running CRS, she said frequency was a national and "currently
somewhat limited resource" and urged them to use it "optimally."

Terming broadcast as a "hungry monster" which called for "constant, rich,
relevant and meaningful feed," she said operators can tie-up with
like-minded organaisations in the same area if they could not generate the
content by themselves.

<http://www.hindu. com/thehindu/ holnus/004200902 101736.htm>



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6. Burkina Faso: Médias : Une radio communautaire pour la commune de
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:21 pm ((PST))

Médias : Une radio communautaire pour la commune de Bama
LeFaso.net - Burkina Faso

<http://www.lefaso.net/spip.php?article30560&rubrique6>

Le lundi 26 Janvier 2009, le Gouverneur de la région des Hauts-Bassins
Pascal T. Bénon a procédé à l'inauguration de la radio communautaire de la
commune rurale de Bama appelée radio « Bama Pile ». Ce qui veut dire le
communicateur de Bama. M. Bénon a été assisté du parrain de la cérémonie
et de la radio, le député Alfred Sanou.

D'un coût estimatif de 67 millions FCFA, la radio « Bama Pile » émet sur
la bande de 97.1 avec une puissance de 300 Watts. Sa portée est de 70km.
Cette radio communautaire est le fruit de la bonne coopération entre la
commune rurale de Bama, le Conseil général de la Haute-Vienne, et Radio
France internationale (RFI) qui a contribué pour la partie technique. Le
parrain Alfred Sanou a remercié les partenaires français qui ont contribué
à la réalisation de cette Radio FM. M. Sanou a souhaité que Dieu renforce
ce partenariat.

En outre, il a invité le comité de gestion de la radio et les habitants à
veiller à la bonne gouvernance et à l'autonomie de la station. Car, a-t-il
ajouté cette radio doit pouvoir offrir des émissions de qualité qui
répondent aux besoins d'informations, de culture, d'éducation, de
développement et de divertissement de toute la communauté. Bama étant une
commune rurale cosmopolite, la radio « Bama Pile » doit refléter cette
diversité de langue et de culture. A ce propos, le parrain a dit que cet
aspect est déjà pris en compte, car les animateurs sont en formation pour
les langues parlées dans la commune à savoir le bobo, le dioula, le
fulfulde et le mooré.

S'adressant aux autorités locales et conseillers de Bama, aux ONG, aux
différentes associations de femmes, d'hommes, de jeunes, M. Sanou leur a
fait savoir qu'ils ont à présent un formidable outil de mobilisation et de
promotion. Pour ce qui est de la coopération entre la commune rurale de
Bama et le département de la Haute-Vienne, une collectivité territoriale
française qui vient d'offrir ce joyau aux populations de Bama, le maire de
ladite commune a indiqué que ce partenariat très fructueux date de plus de
20 ans. Et pendant ces 20 ans, beaucoup de réalisations ont été faites par
la Haute-Vienne au profit de la commune rurale de Bama.

Quant au représentant des partenaires français M. .Jean-Jacques Dubouchaud
Vice-President du conseil général de la Haute-Vienne à Limoge, il a
déclaré que leur souhait, celui de l'Etat burkinabé et son conseil
supérieur de la communication est que cette radio soit une radio
citoyenne, la radio de l'ensemble des habitants de Bama et non pas la
radio d'un groupe, d'une ethnie ou d'un parti politique. Profitant de cela
le chef de la délégation française a remercié particulièrement la
présidente du Conseil supérieur de la Communication du Burkina Faso, Mme
Béatrice Damiba et ses collaborateurs pour leur soutien quant à
l'aboutissement rapide et positif du dossier qui a permis la réalisation
de cette infrastructure médiatique.

Pour ce qui est de l'entretien de cette radio M. Dubouchaud a souligné «
si l'inauguration de ce matin de cette radio est un moment important, il
faut garder en tête que ce n'est que la naissance de la radio « Bama Pile
». Il lui reste maintenant à grandir et à devenir forte. Pour cela, il
faudra que chacun de vous veille sur elle comme son enfant, la protège et
la soutienne jusqu'à sa maturité. Radio « Bama Pile » s'est choisit un
parrain qui sera son tuteur. Et je sais qu'il veillera sur elle et saura
l'appuyer en cas de besoin ».

Avant la coupure du ruban symbolique de la radio par le Gouverneur de la
Région des Hauts-Bassins, la délégation française s'est présentée aux
autorités et aux populations. Cette délégation est composée de M.
Jean-Jacques Dubouchaud chef de la délégation, de Mme Monique Plazzi
Vice-Présidente du Conseil général, de M. Jean Claude Fauvet Conseiller
général, de M. Jean Duchambon Vice-President du Conseil général, Jean-Marc
Gabouty Conseiller Général, Mme Carine Directrice de Cabinet, Mme Béatrice
Arquetout, attaché territoriale, M. Thibaut Maisonneuve, journaliste à
France Bleu Limousin, et M. Patrick Baudet responsable technique à France
Bleu Limousin.

Félix G. OUEDRAOGO Correspondant à Bobo-Dioulasso

L'Hebdo


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7. MENA Fw: Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast Law
Posted by: "tamara aqrabawe" aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au aqrabawe
Date: Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:24 am ((PST))

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From: ARTICLE 19 <press@article19.org>
To: aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:09:05 PM
Subject: Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast Law

For Immediate Release � 12 February 2009 � Arabic to follow


Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast Law

ARTICLE 19 and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information have serious concerns with the draft Broadcast Law released by the Egyptian authorities. A detailed analysis of the draft Law conducted by ARTICLE 19 highlights these concerns, including the fact that the oversight body, the National Audiovisual Broadcasting Regulation Authority, would be controlled by government rather than being independent, as required under international law.
The draft Broadcast Law was released in July 2008 and we understand that the Egyptian government plans to present it to the People�s Assembly in due course. ARTICLE 19 and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information�s key concerns with the draft Law, in addition to the lack of independence of the Authority, are as follows:

* It requires not only broadcasters, but also companies which deal in broadcast equipment, to be licensed.
* It allocates broadcasting licences on the basis of the highest bidder, as opposed to public interest approach and fails to recognise community broadcasting as a third type of broadcaster.
* It provides for excessive restrictions on broadcasting content.
* It fails to set out a framework of rules for regulating ownership concentration and for ensuring competition in the broadcasting sector.
* It provides only for heavy penalties, instead of putting in place a graduated system of sanctions for breach of the law, and fails to place appropriate conditions on the imposition of heavy penalties.
ARTICLE 19 and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information call on the Egyptian authorities to amend the draft Law before putting it to the People�s Assembly so as to rectify these problems and to bring it into line with international standards in this area.

NOTES TO EDITORS:
� The Submission is available in English at: http://www.article19.org/pdfs/analysis/memorandum-on-the-draft-egyptian-broadcast-law.pdf and in Arabic at: http://www.anhri.net/press/2009/pr0216.shtml
� For more information, please contact Toby Mendel, Senior Legal Counsel, ARTICLE 19, a19law@hfx.eastlink.ca, +1 902 431-3688, or Gamal Eid, Executive Director, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, gamaleid@anhri.net, 0101936884.
� Arabic Network for Human Rights Information is a non for profit institution works on promoting the human rights in Arab World and defending opinion makers and free expression activists in the region.


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Wednesday, 11 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2565

There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Seniors: Late life on air: WEACT (Women Elders in Action), Older Wom
From: George Lessard

2. Community Radio Fund launches first call - Le Fonds canadien de la r
From: George Lessard


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1. Seniors: Late life on air: WEACT (Women Elders in Action), Older Wom
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:23 pm ((PST))

Seniors: Late life on air

A group of older women are reclaiming their community's voice, one
broadcast at a time

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/article/17821-seniors-late-life-on-air

Jennifer Markowitz

Once a month, on a Wednesday night, two different groups of women on two
opposite sides of the country press around microphones and chat. Though
hosted by community radio stations based out of McGill and Simon Fraser
Universities, these women aren't students; they're old ladies, many in
their sixties and seventies, some in their eighties, and they're using the
microphone as a tool of empowerment.

For many, the 60-plus set exists as a group separate from the rest of
society. They're seen as fragile; they walk slower, their clothes are
different, and they don't keep up with hip things that younger generations
know. This attitude can be attributed to the priorities of capitalist
societies that evaluate their members according to their productivity,
says Rose Marie Whalley, a founding member of CKUT's Older Women Live
(OWL), a collective that broadcasts monthly across Montreal. "In other
societies [outside of North America], old people guide the young and pass
down the culture, but in capitalist, or post-capitalist societies like
ours, the status of old people is very low because we're not productive.
We are pushed to the margins of society. The culture of youth is the one
that dominates."

Whalley wants to challenge the ideals of an exclusionary culture that
neglects old people, and let society – especially youth – know that the
elderly still have a voice. With OWL, she and six other women from
Montreal introduce society to someone she thinks it does not know: the
active older woman. "I want to reclaim the word old," she says. "I am not
a senior."

Most topics discussed on the show do not exclusively appeal to or describe
an older demographic. The owls, as the women call themselves, avoid
featuring stereotypical "old lady" topics like knitting, grandchildren,
bridge, and the old days. Instead, they focus on stories with more
expansive political or social appeal.

WEACT (Women Elders in Action), a similar radio program broadcast from
Vancouver, also seeks to give a voice to older women. With an approach
similar to OWL's, WEACT works to integrate the social and economic issues
facing older women into common discourse. Like OWL, WEACT focuses on
topics that are political and topical – housing issues, security, local
politics. "Our show is far more a political and a propos to the times than
most students' shows are," says Jan Westlund, coordinator of WEACT. "Maybe
it's because we're more connected to the community, or maybe it's our
breadth of experience."

"Many older women, and [the women producing WE*ACT] are busy; they
volunteer, they're active, and it's hard to keep them at home. Just
because midlife and senior women appear to be somewhat invisible does not
mean they're not active. It just means society is not set up to
acknowledge them and credit them," Westlund says. Through showing that
older women play a part in issues that affect everyone's lives, both radio
programs strive to break the stereotype of older women as useless,
sexless, or burdensome to society.

In familiarizing their communities with older women, the members of OWL
and WE*ACT also familiarize themselves with a part of contemporary culture
that they grew up without – technology. For much of society, technological
competency is an assumed luxury, but for older generations it's often a
mystery, and their illiteracy and lack of tech intuition is leaving them
behind. "It's a way of thinking, a mental process. It's not just a matter
of pressing buttons," Whalley says.

For Westlund's volunteers, mastery of the technical side of the radio
programming has been slow. "I would say only a few of the women have
really taken up the technical side of it seriously, and it's really
important when they do. It's huge for seniors who do because they
stimulate the brain." Still, she says that half of the women involved,
many of whom are in their eighties, have email and computers in their
homes. OWL's members communicate via email – all but one is hooked up.

WE*ACT has taken their initiative beyond radio broadcast. With a program
called Lessons Learned, older women solicit and record stories of
marginalized women in their communities. One of the project's mandates is
to stimulate and engage women who were facing the threat of isolation.

Mastery of technology is not important only in the tangible sense, but can
communicate, according to Whalley, a tremendous symbolic significance. "As
a generation, we have internalized the fact that we're useless. Technology
now has brought that home big time. The inability with technology is
infused with a sort of stupidity and ignorance. What do we have to
contribute? It adds to a general lack of self esteem in old people and
does not help how we are seen in society – as unproductive," Whalley says.
"We need a voice of technology and we're not getting that as a group."

Programs like OWL and WE*ACT bring older women's voices to places and
audiences they could not travel to alone, giving them a voice they don't
feel they have, and a purpose they feel they're not entitled to. "Not only
do [older women] have a low status, but there is no way for us to say,
'Hey, we're here.' Our voices are silent. We have internalized this, and
if we continue to sit at home removed from the world progressing around
us, we're just going to become more and more invisible," Whalley says.

Whalley believes radio may prove to be the only means to keep older people
accessible to younger generations.

"We get into living rooms through radio," Whalley says. The
non-discriminatory nature of radio allows OWL to reach all audiences and
welcomes anyone to participate. "Someone can be lying in bed and still
hold a mic," Whalley says. That's what happened on OWL's January show. The
topic was access to healthcare under a Conservative government, and
featured an interview with one of OWL's collective members, an 85-year-old
woman recovering from a knee replacement. She was in her bed at Lindsay
Rehab centre in Côte-des-Neiges when Whalley conducted the interview.

OWL and WE*ACT stand up against the assumption that old people, and old
women especially, do not work or perform physical activity. The idea of
total retirement, not only professionally but in every aspect of one's
life, is unrealistic. At a time when an increasing number of people is
staying healthier longer, older women are finding ways to not only be part
of society, but to be an active part. "[Our members] are seniors who are
not ready to dive into old age and still want to remain active in their
communities," Westlund says.

She notes that in old age, many find themselves with more free time and a
renewed desire to contribute to and remain part of society. Having lived
through the radical sixties and seventies, members of both programs are
former activists – part of labour unions, social justice, and feminist
movements. "Our generation was an activist generation. We certainly did
women's rights stuff, and civil rights stuff. We were very active in
social experiments," Whalley says, citing the Day Care Movement, when
mothers in the seventies lobbied for cheap daycare services, and the
Back-to-the-Land movement. "Doing all of this, it established a way of
being, a way of life."

Radio has become the new medium through which the activist generation can
continue to demonstrate. "The women have been activists their whole lives
and they have interest in lots of social justice issues. You do that for
30 or 50 years and you're not stopping because your body is slowing down
or because you're tired. If anything, you have more time to devote to
issues," Westlund says.

Growing older doesn't change the essence of a person and does not mean
that they should sacrifice themselves. "You have no idea how active women
in their sixties are," Westlund says – and how relevant they are in our
society.


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2. Community Radio Fund launches first call - Le Fonds canadien de la r
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:28 pm ((PST))

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Subject: [ncra] CRFC launches first call - FCRC lance son premier appel
From: "Melissa Kaestner" <melissa.kaestner@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, February 10, 2009 18:17
To: ncra@ncra.ca
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Hello all. I may have sent this message to this list already (I know I
sent it to the ncramembers' list). I don't see a copy of it in my sent
folder. Ah, well, if I did send it already, please accept my apologies
for the multiple post.
Take care
Melissa

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La version française suit le texte anglais.

English: www.communityradiofund.org
Français : www.fondsradiocommunautaire.org

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For Immediate Release
February 10, 2009

Community Radio Fund of Canada launches first call for proposals
Funding now available to campus and community radio sector in Canada

Ottawa - The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) is pleased to
launch its first call for proposals for Canadian community-oriented
broadcasters and associations.

"The establishment of the fund, and this first call for proposals, is
a historic event in the development of community radio in Canada,"
says Victoria Fenner, CRFC President. "Our first two programs will
provide training and production resources that are aimed at
strengthening programming while contributing to the capacity of the
sector. It's a great first step for us, and we are excited to see the
impact these programs will have in the coming years."

Contributions are available to the sector under two programs: the
Radio Talent Development Program and the Youth Internship Program. The
goal of both programs is to develop innovative local interest
programming while providing mentorship, education, and or training for
broadcasters.

The deadline for each program is March 27, 2009. The proposals will be
assessed in April through a peer review process, with no jury member
being affiliated with any potential recipient. The final results will
be announced in May. Application guidelines and forms are available on
the CRFC's website.

Both of these programs are made possible by a financial partnership
with Astral Media Radio through a CRTC contribution mechanism
totalling $1.4 million over seven years. "We thank Astral Media for
becoming our first private sector partner, and look forward to working
with all who share our goal of bringing the wonderful diversity of
voices in our communities to the Canadian airwaves," says Fenner.

As the CRFC is certified as an eligible recipient of Canadian content
development (CCD) contributions, it is open to work with all private
broadcasters through similar funding partnerships.

For details on eligibility, the programs, and how to apply, as well as
information about the CRFC, please visit our new website:
www.communityradiofund.org

- 30 -

Contact:
Melissa Kaestner, CRFC Executive Director, (613) 321-3513,
m.kaestner@communityradiofund.org

The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) is an not-for-profit funding
organization that solicits and distributes funds geared toward the
development and sustainability of local community radio broadcasting
in urban and rural Canada. Its goal is to provide the sector with the
resources needed to continue providing local programming and community
access, as well as for the development and enrichment of this vital
component of the Canadian broadcasting system.

-----
Pour diffusion immediate
Le 10 février 2009

Le Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire lance son premier appel de
propositions
Le secteur de la radio étudiante et communautaire a maintenant accès à
un appui financier

Ottawa - Le Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire (FCRC) est
heureux de lancer son premier appel de propositions desiné aux
stations et associations de radio étudiante et communautaire
canadiennes.

« La création du Fonds et le lancement de ce premier appel de
propositions sont des événements historiques pour le développement de
la radio communautaire au Canada. Grâce à nos deux premiers
programmes, des radiodiffuseurs d'un bout à l'autre du pays auront
accès à des ressources pour la formation et la production
radiophonique, dans le but de renforcer leur programmation et la
capacité du secteur tout entier. Il s'agit d'un grand pas en avant
pour nous et nous avons bien hâte de mesurer l'impact qu'auront ces
programmes à l'avenir. »

Des fonds seront mis à la disposition du secteur en vertu de deux
programmes: le Programme pour le développement des talents
radiophoniques et le Programme de stage radiophonique pour les jeunes.
L'objectif de ces deux programmes est de favoriser la création d'une
programmation d'intérêt local originale, ainsi que la formation,
l'apprentissage et le mentorat au sein des radios communautaires et
étudiantes.

La date limite pour présenter une proposition est le 27 mars 2009. Les
propositions seront évaluées en avril par un comité de pairs dont les
membres devront n'avoir aucun lien avec un bénéficiaire potentiel. Les
résultats de la sélection seront annoncés en mai. Les formulaires de
demande et les directives qui s'y rattachent sont disponibles dans le
site internet du FCRC.

Les deux programmes, totalisant 1,4M $ sur sept ans, ont été mis en
oeuvre grâce à un partenariat négocié avec Astral Média Radio par
l'entremise d'un mécanisme subventionnaire du CRTC. « Nous remercions
Astral Média d'être devenu notre premier partenaire du secteur privé
et nous avons hâte de collaborer avec tous ceux qui, comme nous,
souhaitent donner à cette merveilleuse diversité de voix qu'on trouve
au sein de nos communautés un accès aux ondes », conclut Mme Fenner.

Le FCRC étant admissible aux subventions destinées au développement de
contenus canadiens (DCC), il est disposé à travailler en collaboration
avec tous les radiodiffuseurs privés canadiens, dans le cadre de
partenariats similaires.

Pour plus de détails concernant les programmes, l'admissibiilté et le
dépôt de demandes, ou encore pour en savoir plus sur le FCRC, veuillez
visiter notre site, au: www.fondsradiocommunautaire.org

- 30 -

Contact :
Melissa Kaestner, Directrice générale, (613) 321-3513,
m.kaestner@communityradiofund.org

Le Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire (FCRC) est un organisme
sans but lucratif qui sollicitera et distribuera des fonds pour le
développement et le maintien de la programmation locale dans les
radios étudiantes et communautaires tant en zone urbaine qu'en milieu
rural. Le but du FCRC est de fournir au secteur de la radio
communautaire sans but lucratif les ressources nécessaires pour
continuer à offrir une programmation locale de qualité, l'accès
communautaire ainsi que le développement et l'enrichissement de ce
secteur crucial du réseau canadien de radiodiffusion.

--
Melissa Kaestner
Executive Director / Directrice générale
Community Radio Fund of Canada
Le Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire
(613) 321-3513, m.kaestner@communityradiofund.org
http://www.communityradiofund.org

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[creative-radio] Digest Number 2564

There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. The World's Toughest Microphone?
From: George Lessard

2. Explicit Music Banned from Jamaica Electronic Media
From: George Lessard

3. AMARC AFRICA 4th Panafrican Conference - 4ème conférence de l'
From: George Lessard


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1. The World's Toughest Microphone?
Posted by: "George Lessard" mediamentor@gmail.com themediamentor
Date: Mon Feb 9, 2009 8:29 am ((PST))

The World's Toughest Microphone?

For a fun time, check out this exploration in microphone abuse on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QPLbQi9FI

The mike being beat up is the legendary Shure SM-58, the vocal mike of
choice for every basement band (and even a lot of them that make it to the
concert stage)

Enjoy it, but be very skeptical. A few things I can believe .. using it as
a hammer, dropping it from a balcony onto concrete, putting it in the
freezer is believeable. Maybe even the part where they put it head-down in
a jar of water.

The less believeable part starts when they run over it twice with a car
(small car, Toyota). The mesh gets dented and the video producers say there
is a slight difference in sound quality (how "slight" is it, folks? At this
point I wondered how critical their ears are ..)


Via / from / thanks to

http://www.soundoutmedia.com/


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2. Explicit Music Banned from Jamaica Electronic Media
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Mon Feb 9, 2009 8:12 pm ((PST))

Explicit Music Banned from Jamaica Electronic Media
Published on Sunday, February 8, 2009
By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Caribbean Net News
<http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-14112--9-9--.html>


KINGSTON, Jamaica: The Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica, the watchdog
over the island's electronic media, has banned radio and television
stations from airing songs with content deemed explicitly sexual and
violent, even if concealed by bleeps.

The Jamaica Gleaner reported that the Commission said dancehall songs that
qualify as "daggering" content -- the rapidly emerging culture of
quasi-erotic dances and music -- will also be outlawed from the airwaves.

<snip>


"We must work together to stop enriching people like Vybz Kartel who
create filth and are then paid when they release it on the public. The
corporate giants in this nation who are promoting such filth need to come
into the schools and see what is happening to the minds of the young,"
wrote Tyson, principal of the co-ed school, Ardenne High.

The Broadcasting Commission has come under pressure in recent months as
complaints mounted, particularly in print media, that the organisation
should ramp up its policing of the airwaves and sanction stations
breaching the Television and Sound Broadcasting Regulations.

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3. AMARC AFRICA 4th Panafrican Conference - 4ème conférence de l'
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Mon Feb 9, 2009 11:24 pm ((PST))

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [Asiapacific-general] AMARC AFRICA 4th Panafrican Conference -
4ème conférence de l'AMARC Afrique
From: "info@africa.amarc.org" <info@africa.amarc.org>
Date: Mon, February 9, 2009 19:22
To: "Secretariat" <secretariat@si.amarc.org>
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English follows....

February 10, 2009

To AMARC Africa members

Invitation to the 4th Panafrican Conference of AMARC Africa on April
27-30 2009 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Dear colleagues,

In accordance with the provisions established by AMARC Africa
Constitution, and on behalf of AMARC Africa Board, I am pleased to
announce that the 4th Panafrican Conference of AMARC Africa will be held
in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire April 27-30 . Please find attached draft
agenda of the Panafrican Conference and of the General Assembly of AMARC
Africa.

The General Assembly will complete the reconstruction of the AMARC
Africa network according to the members needs, by adopting the new
Constitution; defining the AMARC Africa strategic plan 2009-2012 and by
electing the members of the board of directors. Furthermore, the 4th
Panafrican Conference will permit through training for trainers and
knowledge sharing to increase the social impact of community radio in
achieving development and good governance objectives in Africa.

The AMARC Africa Board cordially invites you to register, at
http://africa.amarc.org/index.php?p=Pan_African_Conferences&l=EN and
indicate if you require sponsorship to participate. Please note that
only members in good standing can vote or be represented by proxy. We
also invite you to actively contribute by responding to the attached
social impact evaluation of your community radio; as well as to send us
a written presentation on issues of the Conference, so they will be
distributed to the participants, may be the chosen for presentation in
workshops as well as be published with the conference procedures

For further information please contact the secretariat at
info@africa.amarc.org.

Yours sincerely,

Grace Githaiga
President AMARC Africa
_______________________________________________
Le 10 février, 2009


Aux membres de l'AMARC Afrique

Invitation à a 4ème Conférence panafricaine de l'AMARC Afrique du 27 au
30 avril, à Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Cher(e) collègues,

Conformément aux dispositions établies par la Constitution de l'AMARC
Afrique et en représentation du conseil d'administration, je suis
heureuse de vous annoncer que lla 4ème conférence panafricaine de
l'AMARC Afrique se tiendra à Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, du 27 au 30 avril,
2009. Veuillez s.v.p. trouver en pièce jointe, le programme provisoire
de la conférence panafricaine et de l'assemblée générale de l'AMARC
Afrique.

L'assemblée générale complétera le processus de reconstruction du réseau
de l'AMARC Afrique d'après les besoins des membres et se traduira, entre
autres; par l'adoption d'une nouvelle Constitution; la définition du
plan d'action stratégique pour 2009-2010 et par l'élection des membres
du conseil. De plus, la 4ème conférence panafricaine permettra la
formation de formateurs et l'échange de connaissances nécessaires à
l'augmentation de l'impact social des radios communautaires dans
l'atteinte des objectifs de développement et de bonne gouvernance en
Afrique.

Le conseil d'administration de l'AMARC Afrique vous invite cordialement
à vous inscrire à
http://africa.amarc.org/index.php?p=Conferences_pan-africaines&l=FR et
indiquer, aussitôt que possible, si vous avez besoin d'une subvention
pour participer. Veuillez noter que seuls les membres en règle peuvent
voter où être présents par procuration. Nous vous invitons également à
contribuer activement au succès de la conférence en répondant à
l'évaluation sur l'impact social de votre radio communautaire, en pièce
jointe; de même que de nous envoyer une présentation par écrit sur un
thème de la conférence, que peut être distribué aux participants, faire
l'objet d'une présentation dans un atelier et être publié avec les
documents de la conférence.

Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez contacter le secrétariat à
info@africa.amarc.org

Amicalement,

Grace Githaiga
President AMARC Africa


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[creative-radio] Digest Number 2563

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Topics in this digest:

1. MENA [in] ARABIC/ AMARC Press Release on Jor gov refusal of CR licen
From: tamara aqrabawe

2. The Promise of Ubiquity: Mobile as Media Platform in the Global Sout
From: George Lessard

3a. PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
From: George Lessard
3b. Re: PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
From: Vickram Crishna

4. MENA ARABIC/ AMARC Press Release on Jor gov refusal of CR license /
From: tamara aqrabawe


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Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 10:59 am ((PST))

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2. The Promise of Ubiquity: Mobile as Media Platform in the Global Sout
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 8:07 pm ((PST))

Download
- Executive Summary
and the
- Full Report as PDF documents... for free... at...

http://www.internews.fr/spip.php?article459

African peasants paint their mobile phone number over their front doors.
Indian slum dwellers buy SIM cards to use on friends' handsets. Chinese
students spend three months' allowance on a phone they can use to surf the
web. Once almost the exclusive domain of rich countries, the mobile
revolution has swept through the developing world. An estimated 3.8
billion people, or half the world's population, own a mobile, and most of
the growth is taking place in the global South. This has deep implications
for the media, but the change has been so rapid that it has completely
overtaken most media outlets - they are struggling to digest its impact.

The Promise of Ubiquity was commissioned by Internews Europe in order to
help the media to understand the exciting potential, the incredible
challenges and the perils of refusing to change. What kind of information
services can be carried on the mobile now and in the next five years? Is
the mobile viable as an information channel even when many new users may
be illiterate? There may be few right answers, but author John West
provides a roadmap on how to navigate through the brave new world of
mobile telephony. West suggests a checklist of useful questions and of
some best practices which have emerged so far.

Through interviews with leaders in the field – software engineers and
designers, journalists, and businessmen – the book examines current and
future trends, from the dominance of SMS texting to mobile Web, and
suggests approaches on how media outlets can negotiate with network
operators as well as decide what services to offer.

"A lot of the most interesting innovation in mobiles
is coming from the South - financial transactions,
M-government and so on." - Ken Banks, FrontlineSMS

Innovator case studies:

"What the mobile medium allowed was the creation of a news service at a
very low cost. We have got to the stage where we are now challenging the
established media here." Chamath Airyadasa is a Sri Lankan journalist who
set up his own news organisation using texts, called Jasmine News Wire. As
of mid-2008 JNW had around 100,000 subscribers paying 30 US cents a month
across Sri Lanka's four mobile phone networks to receive a news alerts
service.

"The idea really was to write software that could get information out and
get information back over the mobile phone." Ken Banks developed
FrontlineSMS in 2005 after realizing that the mobile was beginning to make
inroads into rural regions of Africa, where the Internet was still
non-existent. FrontlineSMS is a free-to-use SMS server program which when
installed on a computer allows it to use an attached mobile phone to
structure text messages out and back. It is now in use in over 50
countries. Some current uses include monitoring of Nigeria's elections in
2007 by activists, delivering crop prices to farmers in Aceh, Indonesia,
health care services in Malawi, news alerts in Iraq, and security news for
NGO workers in Afghanistan.

"Particularly in the health sector, we are seeing many organisations
preparing to use SMS as a kind of instant expert service." Bobby Soriano
is a programmer and activist based in Manila who has been working on SOS
SMS, a service for Filipinos working abroad. The service has evolved
quickly from dealing only with emergency calls into a broader information
service which handles any kind of query from the hundreds of thousands of
Filipinos working in the Gulf region and elsewhere.
Internews ahead of the technology curve

Internews Europe has been on the forefront of media work with mobile
phones in the South. It set up text messaging services for journalists in
the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Java, Indonesia in 2006.
Since then, it has continued to innovate with mobile use in emergency
response situations as well as in closed country environments.

John West has pioneered use of new technologies for media applications in
developing countries since running instant message chats live from Baghdad
in December 1998 to 14,000 AOL users during US bomb attacks. In 1999, he
won the prestigious European Internet Journalist of the Year award given
by City University in London. From 2002 to 2004, he led an Internews
project in Afghanistan which established 30 FM radio stations around the
country, fully digitised and linked by satellite to production networks.
In 2008, he introduced mobile phone-based information services in Iraq by
evolving a system of real-time news alerts over SMS with a national news
agency.

For more information, please contact:
- Elsa Caternet – Project Director, ecaternet AT internews DOT fr
- Jun Julien Matsushita - Program Manager, jmatsushita AT internews DOT fr


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3a. PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 9:25 pm ((PST))

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Times of India - India

<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Patna/Community_radio_stations_to_be_set_up_for_farmers/articleshow/4093319.cms>

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
8 Feb 2009, 0538 hrs IST, Sanjeev Kumar Verma, TNN


PATNA: Farmers in Bihar would soon have their first brush with community
radio. To be set up under the Agriculture Technology Management Agency
(ATMA) Project of Union ministry of agriculture, the community radio would
air programmes catering to the needs of the farming community.

Apart from airing informative programmes about the latest farming
practices and the precaution the farmers should take to safeguard their
standing crops, programmes based on lives of successful farmers of a given
area would also be aired. Then, the community radio would provide
localised weather reports.

In the first phase, three such community radio stations would come up at
Krishi Vikas Kendra (KVK) Birauli in Samastipur, KVK Barh in Patna and KVK
Jamui. The Union ministry has provided over Rs 31 lakh for each such radio
station out of which about 14 lakh would be spent on equipment and the
balance amount would be spent on the programming head and recurring
expenditure.

"Community radio is going to play a very positive role for farmers, as it
would be localised in nature, with its service area limited to the
surrounding areas only and farmers would get area specific inputs for
improving the farming practices," said Bihar Agricultural Management &
Extension Training Institute (BAMETI) director R K Sohane. BAMETI is the
state level co-ordinator for implementation of ATMA project in the state.

He said that the funds for the said radio stations have already been
received and BAMETI has applied to the ministry of information and
broadcasting for licences for starting the community radio stations.
"Vigilance teams have already visited the sites where radio stations would
be set up. Hence, we are expecting the licences very soon," Sohane added.

BAMETI, meanwhile, has started work on deciding the programme contents
which would be aired daily for two hours. "KVK scientists and those from
the agriculture university as well as successful farmers would play a
major role in preparing these programmes," he said and added that local
soil and climatic conditions would be given due weightage while giving any
information to the farmers through these programmes.

Incidentally, the proposed community radio stations would be first of its
kind in Bihar as far as farmers' centric programmes are concerned. In the
southern states as well as in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, experiments
with community radio has proved to be very beneficial. "Farmers of these
states have appreciated the move and we expect similar kind of response in
Bihar as well," Sohane said.

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3b. Re: PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Posted by: "Vickram Crishna" v1clist@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 10:15 pm ((PST))

"Farmers in Bihar would soon have their first brush with communityradio."


"Apart from airing informative programmes about the latest farming practices and the precaution the farmers should take to safeguard their standing crops, programmes based on lives of successful farmers of a given area would also be aired. Then, the community radio would provide localised weather reports."

It is really wonderful (I don't think, just in case the strength of my irony is lost on some Gentle Readers) that these 3 stations will provide the kind of programming that numerous public service stations could not in sixty years of independent broadcasting.

For the information of listmembers who are not familiar with India, the country has had over 300 stations set up following the declaration of independence in 1947, and while it can be no one's case that they are sufficient, each of India's (now 30) states (semi-autonomous administrative and political regions) have multiple stations. Bihar was once one of the biggest and most populous states, but was truncated a couple of years back to create an independent hill state, that ought to be more attuned to the needs of hill people.

The community media movement in India almost completely functions on its own, with some non-financial support from groups like AMARC, Open Access and so on. This contrasts quite remarkably with the funding and organisation of special interest groups, including USIA, BBC and others, who have been nudging India's non-government media towards privatisation.

It surprises me that virtually none of the global independent community movements have found it interesting to help India's local counterparts work in a more focused manner, to build up visible, vocal and vote-worthy support, that could actually see radio (to begin with: terrestrial television is also a fairly accessibly media form for much of India's potential audience, 70 per cent of whom live in non-urban areas) be taken seriously by the bureaucrats (and their so-called political masters) who continue to strangle it.

Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com


________________________________
From: George Lessard <media@web.net>
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 9 February, 2009 10:56:20
Subject: [creative-radio] PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers


Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Times of India - India

<http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/Cities/ Patna/Community_ radio_stations_ to_be_set_ up_for_farmers/ articleshow/ 4093319.cms>

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
8 Feb 2009, 0538 hrs IST, Sanjeev Kumar Verma, TNN

PATNA: Farmers in Bihar would soon have their first brush with community
radio. To be set up under the Agriculture Technology Management Agency
(ATMA) Project of Union ministry of agriculture, the community radio would
air programmes catering to the needs of the farming community.

Apart from airing informative programmes about the latest farming
practices and the precaution the farmers should take to safeguard their
standing crops, programmes based on lives of successful farmers of a given
area would also be aired. Then, the community radio would provide
localised weather reports.

In the first phase, three such community radio stations would come up at
Krishi Vikas Kendra (KVK) Birauli in Samastipur, KVK Barh in Patna and KVK
Jamui. The Union ministry has provided over Rs 31 lakh for each such radio
station out of which about 14 lakh would be spent on equipment and the
balance amount would be spent on the programming head and recurring
expenditure.

"Community radio is going to play a very positive role for farmers, as it
would be localised in nature, with its service area limited to the
surrounding areas only and farmers would get area specific inputs for
improving the farming practices," said Bihar Agricultural Management &
Extension Training Institute (BAMETI) director R K Sohane. BAMETI is the
state level co-ordinator for implementation of ATMA project in the state.

He said that the funds for the said radio stations have already been
received and BAMETI has applied to the ministry of information and
broadcasting for licences for starting the community radio stations.
"Vigilance teams have already visited the sites where radio stations would
be set up. Hence, we are expecting the licences very soon," Sohane added.

BAMETI, meanwhile, has started work on deciding the programme contents
which would be aired daily for two hours. "KVK scientists and those from
the agriculture university as well as successful farmers would play a
major role in preparing these programmes," he said and added that local
soil and climatic conditions would be given due weightage while giving any
information to the farmers through these programmes.

Incidentally, the proposed community radio stations would be first of its
kind in Bihar as far as farmers' centric programmes are concerned. In the
southern states as well as in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, experiments
with community radio has proved to be very beneficial. "Farmers of these
states have appreciated the move and we expect similar kind of response in
Bihar as well," Sohane said.



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4. MENA ARABIC/ AMARC Press Release on Jor gov refusal of CR license /
Posted by: "tamara aqrabawe" aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au aqrabawe
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 10:16 pm ((PST))

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