[cr-india] Asian Voices radio program from Singapore

[George Lessard]

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Subject: Asian Voices
From:    "KS" <sen1954 at yahoo.com>
Date:    Fri, July 18, 2008 11:33
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Launch of Asian Voices – Issue 1 : July 2008

Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) is pleased to
announce the launch of a new project “Asian Voices”.

“Asian Voices” is a monthly radio magazine programme produced by the AMIC
from Singapore . It brings you news, views and interviews on Asian media
and communication issues from an Asian perspective. The monthly issue will
be available on line on the 15th of each month.

This first issue of “Asian Voices” includes the following segments:

a)      Vox Pops on whether radio is a dying art
b)      Mike Pedero, chief broadcaster of the National Broadcasting
Corporation in the Philippines reflects on this point, as well as Haan
Tran, head of Radio Australia .
c)      Kudsia Kahar, general manager of AMP Radio Malaysia talks about
the threat to radio coming from politicians rather than new technology.
d)      Jace Au, head of public affairs at Radio Television Hong Kong
talks to Asian Voices’s Tharuka Prematileka about how radio could respond
to the digital age.
e)      Evelyn Agato station manager of Radyo Pilipinas overseas services
explains how her radio station links overseas Filipino workers with their
kith and kin back home.
f)        Prateek Dubey and Naren Katara, two MBA students from the Mudra
Institute of Communications in India explain how their students’ community
radio station links with the adjoining villages.
g)      Asia Voices’s Kalinga Seneviratne joins the ‘eTuk Tuk’ team at
Kothmale Community Radio in Sri Lanka on a live broadcast from a Tamil tea
estate community in the hills.

This programme is produced and presented by Dr Kalinga Seneviratne, Head
of Research at AMIC and a former radio broadcaster. Production assistance
by Ms Tharuka Prematileka, Research Assistant at AMIC and a mass comm
graduate from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore .

This programme could be downloaded and broadcast in full or in segments,
free of charge, by any non-profit public or community radio broadcaster in
Asia and around the world. If you do broadcast, please let us know time
and date of broadcast, just for our records. Please log onto
http://www.amicaltmedia.net to download programme.

We also welcome contributions from Asian radio stations and radio
producers. At the moment the programme is produced entirely on a voluntary
basis, but, we may commission special features for a fee in the future.

For more information, feedback and contributions, please contact Kalinga
Seneviratne – email: kalinga at amic.org.sg   Ph: 65 – 6792 7570.

Next month's "Asian Voices" will focus on the MDGs and the media's role in
helping address these issues.


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