[cr-india] review of campus radio stations

[Stalin K]

The study on CR stations conducted by CEMCA that Sajan posted makes for very
interesting reading. Here are my observations from going through the first
two columns of the names and the dates (of application, of issuing LOI, of
SACFA clearance and date on which the station was commissioned):
 
Radio Active 108.7 at Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College in Karnataka does even
better also pulled a rabbit from its hat. They got their LOI (22.09.06) a
month before they even put in their application (18.10.06).
 
Radio Active and PSG College of Technology 107.8 MHz in Coimbatore, CRS ­
Dharwad 90.4 MHz and Vishnu CRS 90.4 MHz at Shri Vishnu Engineering College
for Women in AP are all interesting cases. They all applied under the old
policy and but all of them got its SACFA clearance during the period of the
new policy (2007). I wonder if they had to go through the screening
committee scrutiny like everyone else under the new policy? If not what
rationales were used? Also, are these entities registered as non-profits?
Does CEMCA or anyone else have these information?
 
Of the 23 stations mentioned in the study twenty were set up under the old
CR policy and only three have applied and set up stations under the new CR
policy. These three are Sivanthi CRS 90.4 MHz at Tiruchendur in Tamilnadu,
DU CRS 90.4 MHz at Delhi University and GB Pant Agricultural University in
Uttrakhand. Now here is the scoop - DU and GB Pant managed to get their LOI
and SACFA on the same day ­ 13.08.2007 and commissioned the station within
two following two months. Clearly there are plenty of lessons to be learnt
from these two organizations on how they managed this miracle.
 
Anna Radio 90.4 MHz at Anna University, Chenna takes cake, or should say
manages the mother of all miracles ­ it managed to commission the station in
Feb 04 a couple of months before it even got SACFA clearance in April 2004!
 
Compare the above to all the rigmarole that community based organization
have to go through to get through even the screening committee.

Best regards,
Stalin K
Convener, Community Radio Forum-India




On 4/30/08 1:10 PM, "sajan venniyoor" <venniyoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 Feb 2008, in a meeting in New Delhi, CEMCA faciliated a
> questionnaire-based review of 23 of the reportedly 34 operational campus
> radio stations in India. To quote the March '08 CEMCA newsletter: 'With a
> view to ensure that the stations deliver the community service they were set
> up to, the Ministry of Information called for a monitoring and evaluation
> meeting of the functional community radio stations in the country. The
> meeting, facilitated by CEMCA, revisited the original goals of the CR and
> implemented an important decision by MIB which is that the community radio
> stations would refer to themselves as "CR" stations rather than FM,
> essentially to underscore the difference in purpose and content from the
> commercial FM stations."
> 
> The raw data from this campus station review is available on the CEMCA
> website - http://cemca.org/scienceforwomen/institutionaldata.pdf. The data
> includes basic details of 23 campus radio stations, programme formats,
> financial management, organizational structure, audience feedback and
> programme planning.
> 
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