[cr-india] Campus radio... some background

[smitha bhat]

Dear Frederick,
  Thankyou for your mail and for what ever you are doing for the development of community radio and for the society.
  I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year
   
  smitha
  
"Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred at bytesforall.org> wrote:
  Just earlier today, a note came in via email to say that a
college in Goa (Xavier's, Mapusa) has got the official
green-signal to launch a 20-watt FM low-powered radio station
to broadcast "educational, health, environment, agriculture,
rural and community development programmes". [1]

For long, the Government of India has been cautious
in opening up the airwaves, and harnessing its 
potential for educational or developmental
purposes. Now, as pressure mounts to open up on the
community radio front, the GoI has cautiously
allowed a few campus radio stations to open up. 

[1] http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-December/036395.html 

After a quick search, here are some URLs that might be of
interest to those campuses that are suddenly finding
themselves in possession of a powerful medium, and not sure
what to do with it.

There surely must be a lot more out there, and this is a very
incomplete list.

If you'd like to know more about how radio can spread useful
agriculture information, check this link for Farm Radio [2].

How we work – Radio is our primary method of
communication. We gather and research information
about successful, low-cost practices in sustainable
agriculture, nutrition, health and community
development, and produce radio scripts for our
partner-broadcasters and others engaged in rural
development. They, in turn, share the information
with an audience of millions of farmers and their
family members around the world.

Scores of scripts are available here. 

Script-writing can be quite a specialised job, and a
university in London is even offering an MA in the subject.
[3]

There's also a course that was held some time back, in South
Africa, on producing educational radio programmes [4] In case
you're interested in knowing what were the modules, here's a
listing: 

* Introduction to radio
* Choosing the message and targeting the audience
* Writing and presenting for radio
* Interview techniques
* Recording a report on location
* Mixing - the power of music, actuality and speech
* Producing radio drama - script editing, directing
actors, mixing sound

[2] http://www.farmradio.org/
[3]
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/study-options/postgraduate/MA-Script-Writing.php
[4] http://www.comminit.com/training2001/2001-events/events-226.html

And if you want more, here's a page for getting started on
creative radio drama [5]. Radio classes for young people? An
interesting model from the west [6]. And, while surfing (not
searching!) I came across this page from a UN radio
production about the vanishing waterland (Venice) by Vaiju
Naravane [7]. 

[5] http://www.ruyasonic.com/rdr_101.htm
[6] http://www.wrte.org/training_clases/classes_in_english/
[7] http://whc.unesco.org/archive/unrvenic.htm

My e-friend George Lessard tells us here [8] about an
interesting option: "The Soul Beat focuses on information
from the network about using radio to address health and
health issues in Africa." [9] 

[8] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/creative-radio/message/7870
[9] http://www.comminit.com/africa/community-radio/

If you want to access an online radio script dictionary, go
here [10].

[10] http://www.shellac.org/phonocord/pscriptc.html

In all, here's [11] a nice overview on writing for radio. And
don't miss Wikipedia's page explaining how campus radio works
in different parts of the globe [12]. 

[11]
http://www.farmradio.org/english/publications/creating-content.asp#writingRadio
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_radio
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Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Independent Journalist
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