[cr-india] AMARC Asia Pacific community Radio directory 2009

[Suman Basnet]

Dear Sajan, 

 

Thank you very much for the frank comments on the directory. Even as we
struggled to get the number of entries that we eventually managed to
receive, we do realise that the current number of entries do not reflect the
real picture of community broadcasting in the region. In addition to our
inability to inspire broadcasters to respond to call for entries, language
has been a barrier too. Many community broadcasters in Thailand, Indonesia,
the Philippines, and countries in the Pacific cannot communicate in English.
Many still do not use emails. I hope that these will be overcome as AMARC
grows in these countries. The current edition of the directory and the first
one as well, are at best seeds for a much comprehensive version to grow in
future. 

 

Any support from you as well as members of this list will be
enthusiastically welcomed. 

 

Thanks a lot once again and with warmest regards, Suman

 

From: sajan venniyoor [mailto:venniyoor at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:11 AM
To: CR India
Subject: Re: [cr-india] AMARC Asia Pacific community Radio directory 2009

 

Dear Suman,

 

Thank you for issuing the 2009 edition of the AMARC Asia Pacific CR
directory. 

 

I am afraid I found it rather diasppointing, at least as far as the CR scene
in India is concerned. The Directory seems to give the impression that there
are just about five (non-operational) CR initiatives in India, along with
half a dozen consultants, academic institutions and NGOs with an interest in
CR. That is not the case.

 

At the last count, 50 licenses were issued to CR stations in India, of which
45 are now operational, including 40 campus-based CRS. CR stations like
Sangham Radio (Pastapur) and Radio Bundelkhand (Orchha) have been running
successfully for almost a year now, but they don't figure in the Directory.
Anna University's 'Anna FM' completed five years in February this year. 

 

The number of production houses, academic institutions and NGOs with an
interest in community radio would run into the hundreds.

 

I am also disappointed to see that countries like Thailand, with its
hundreds -- if not thousands -- of community radio stations, don't figure in
the Directory at all.

 

The manner in which the Directory is compiled leads to these imbalances, I
know, but with the accelerating growth of CR in the Asia Pacific, we need to
find better ways of putting it together. Documenting CR initiatives in the
region could be one of the issues that we discuss at the AMARC Regional
Conference in October.

 

warm regards,

Sajan

 

 

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Suman Basnet <suman at wlink.com.np> wrote:

Dear friends and colleagues, 

 

I am very happy to inform you that the second edition of the AMARC Asia
Pacific CR directory 2009 is available online at
http://asiapacific.amarc.org/index.php?p=2_Conference_Asia_Pacific_2009 and
please follow the link in that page. Or you can also directly visit
http://amarcwiki.amarc.org/upload/documents/AMARC_CR_Directory_2009_Final.pd
f. 

 

Please circulate this information in your networks.

 

With warmest regards, Suman

 

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