The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) sought responses from stakeholders to a Consultation Paper on Community Radio that they released in August this year. The paper, after reviewing the international context of...
As the only community radio station in the Jagatsinghpur District of Odisha, Radio Sanskar is the perfect bridge between the local administration and the local community while addressing the larger information and communication...
An open letter to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Dr Rob Watson, Director, Decentred Media, Leicester Lucinda Guy, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Soundart Radio, Totnes (Devon) and Former Chairperson,...
At a time when floods and cyclones are increasing causing havoc in South Asia, Bangladesh’s community radio (CR) sector’s track record in disaster preparedness assumes special significance. AHM Bazlur Rahman, one of country’s...
An open letter to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Dr Rob Watson, Director, Decentred Media, Leicester Lucinda Guy, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Soundart Radio, Totnes (Devon) and Former Chairperson,...
On June 15, 2021, at 3 PM: Devraj Subedi, station manager of Radio Melamchi made the following emergency announcement: “The overflowing Yangri river is likely to cause heavy floods in Melamchi.” The information was received from...
Earlier this year, on 5th March 2021, AMARC Asia-Pacific released a publication ‘Nepal: Community Radios, Conflict Resolution and peacebuilding.’ The publication highlights the role of community radios addressing social,...
For the radio sector in particular, strategic partnerships involving the three tiers of broadcasting – the public service broadcaster, private FM channels, and CR – needed to be built, as each tier ought to leverage the...
Recognising the true potential of community radio as hyper-local media in crises such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, the UNESCO Chair on Community Media at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad conducted...
