Monthly Archives: August 2008

Community radio: content conundrums

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

Just a passing thought as I chew the back of my pencil (or the keyboard). In my online search for Haryanvi folk music (yes, I have unending faith in the power of Google to turn up anything and everything), I … Continue reading →

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Community Radio: Sajan Venniyoor’s views

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

Here’s a video link sent by Frederick Noronha through the CR-India mailing list. Sajan is the founder of the Community Radio Forum. Currently with Doordarshan, Sajan has 15 years of experience with radio. He has also been moderator and resource … Continue reading →

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Community Radio: Mumbai University’s MUST Radio

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

An NDTV story reports on MUST Radio, Mumbai University’s Community Radio. Two girls, born in slums, who have never been to school, have taken to the air waves as RJs talking on issues of health, education and hygeine. Read the … Continue reading →

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Community radio: agricultural colleges go live

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

The Telegraph has just run a story on the Birsa Agricultural College’s radio station that was launched in March 2008. Seems that the college is so enthusiastic about the response, they now want to set up 21 community radio stations … Continue reading →

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Community radio: Deutsche Welle partners with IGNOU

Posted on August 24, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

Great news just filtered in. According to a report at www.indiantelevision.com Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) to broadcast DW-Radio over campus radio throughout India. … Continue reading →

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Community radio: building bridges

Posted on August 23, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

We’re in a whirl of thinking, doing, worrying, talking, emailing. So far, it looks like that beyond our basic content components of Health (Talk to the Doc), Education (short “explainers” that elaborate on various concepts), language (English language learning), and … Continue reading →

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Book/Magazine Publishing 2.0

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Ajay Jaiman

Is there such a thing as book or magazine publishing 2.0? Perhaps there is a need for it. A lot of smart people are trying – some smart ideas and some not so smart. Which is which? I guess only … Continue reading →

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Broadcasting news, Manipur style

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

A great example of community news broadcasts comes to us from a little village in Manipur, where some villagers have got together to do a daily morning broadcast of news culled from local newspapers. No radio, no license. They simply … Continue reading →

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TV as babysitter! How about 24 hour TV channel for babies?

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Ajay Jaiman

As products proliferate marketers will research and find the smallest niche available. First videos, then Tv programming and now 24 hour channel dedicated to babies under 3. In-womb will be next! Or is it already out there? Fortunately there are … Continue reading →

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Community radio: grappling with forms

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Arti Jaiman

I eat my words. Okay not all of them. But at least the ones in the last blog where I cribbed about the WPC site. It turns out that the site has all the links — just that none of … Continue reading →

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