India’s first emergency FM station in flood-hit Cuddalore, TN, 107.8 FM is on air. Ekta Mittal of Maraa reports. A phone call from John Nelson, Managing Trustee of Sarnalayam Trust, in Cuddalore is what it took to get the...
Read MoreNoted Journalist B G Verghese, who passed away recently, was also a supporter of community radio in India. Apart from a long stint at Prasar Bharati in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Verghese also chaired the Official Committee...
Read More“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Ideosync Media Combine has initiated FREE/DEM – an initiative designed to build capacities of Community Radio towards enhancing pluralism and strengthening democracy,...
Read MoreCommunity radio movement in the United States got a big boost with the passing of the Local Community Radio Act of 2010, with about 3000 low-power (about 100 watts) FM stations spread all across the country. Kanchan K. Malik and...
Read MoreFollowing the change in the country’s government earlier this year, the Indian Information and Broadcasting Ministry has ordered that its Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC) begin real-time broadcast radio monitoring as...
Read MoreNews in all forms of media in India is dominated by male subjects. This is particularly true of radio, with women constituting only 13 per cent of the subjects of news bulletins, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project...
Read MoreCourtesy: The Hindu, October 21, 2013 Like any other freedom, freedom of expression too is a product of relentless struggle. In one of my earlier columns, “From principle to practice” (January 28, 2013), I looked at three...
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