[cr-india] Re: About Community Radio

[FN]

Balaji says they don't have direct plans but want to team up with others, 
eg agri univs. FN

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 15:27, mahesh acharya wrote:
> hi!
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> my guess was right. ICRISAT seems to have some plans. The more i think
> about it, the more i get excited.
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> Now, the radio station need not just restrict to just agri based
> programs. It is the 'entry' point. The rest will take its own course.
> Every radio station has cycle (from inception, to up and running) that
> follows a predictible pattern, if the extrinsic factors are known.
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> Lets see what Balaji has got for us.
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> The extrinsic factors in the academic institutes vary from what 'type'
> of institute it is. So will the student and academic community. This
> means that those that are assumed(for whatever reasons)by govt to be
> successful may not be true.
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> Its a good question as to how many organizations have applied for
> license. I cannot think of other than DDS and VOICES, since they have
> been in CR for the begining. lets hope that more organizations apply.
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> mahesh
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arun Mehta <arunlists at softhome.net>
> To: "mahesh acharya" <radio_active at myrealbox.com>, fred at bytesforall.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:17:04 +0530
> Subject: Re: [cr-india] Re: About Community Radio
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> At 06-02-03, mahesh acharya wrote:
> >It has been eight years in waiting since the 1995 Supreme Court
> > Judgement on air waves, that it is a public property and directed the
> > Govt to set up regulatory body.
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> >This is an opportunity and i am sure with excellant planning community
> > can get onboard with education institutes. For example agriculture
> > universities do interact with local farmers. All it needs is a 
> > planning.
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> And the will to actually do something in radio. I would suggest that we
> have no shortage of people paying lip service to radio, but when it
> comes to putting your money where your mouth is, most people, both in
> the private and public sector are far more interested in TV.
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> I spoke to students at IIM Ahmedabad. They have excellent Net
> connectivity now, and were actually running several music radio
> stations for a while, but then the novelty wore off. They don't
> interact much with the surrounding community, and don't seem interested
> in catering to their needs. I suspect this is the situation with most
> educational institutions. It may be that agricultural universities are
> different, but let's find out.
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> Now that a policy for community radio has been announced, is when we'll
> find out how much interest there truly is in this. Straw poll: how many
> on the list have applied for a community radio license, or even know of
> anyone having applied?
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> Arun
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