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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Community radio: content conundrums
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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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Community radio: at the mercy of a shoddy website
Here we are, at the receiving end of a Letter of Intent from the Ministry of Communications informing us that they were considering the possibility of bestowing upon us a community radio license for Gurgaon. Cheers went around, and we … Continue reading
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Community radio: ready for a recce
The NGO I work with (not for), The Restoring Force (TRF), has received the preliminary Letter of Intent from the Ministry informing TRF that it has been granted a license to start a community radio station in Gurgaon. Considering TRF’s … Continue reading
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Refusing to serve underage customers?
If you were running a bar, would you refuse to serve an underage customer? Would you make systems to prevent the serving of alcohol to children? How about if you sold cigarettes in your store? What about adult content – … Continue reading
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Google Trends & Google Insights — Social Science Toolbox
I have been using Google Trends for some time now – for work and sometimes just for fun! Trust me it can be fun and educational. You can tell a lot about what is going on in people’s minds and … Continue reading
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E-mail newsletter sold for $125 million?
Aimed at stylish women, Daily Candy is being bought by Comcast Corp for an estimated $125 million. According to Philly.com Daily Candy “delivers more than 2.5 million e-mail subscriptions through local editions in 12 key U.S. cities, including Philadelphia and … Continue reading
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What does a heart attack feel like?
It does not always feel like what you may have seen in the movies or on TV. Sometimes it can even feel like a bad case of indigestion. Interesting story in Guardian quoting a British Heart Foundation (BHF) survey that … Continue reading →