[cr-india] cr-india Digest, Vol 148, Issue 2 Internet Radio Stations In Inda

Thu Aug 3 02:11:39 CDT 2017

Hello
We have also successfully implemented alternatives communications methods
via internet radios & past almost 2 years now our 5 internet Radios are
most successful.
Radio Namkin, Radio Iskcon, Radio Jay Bhim, Radio Shiva (Farmers), Radio
Saptrang.

One of our community Radio Jay Bhim has 100 thousand downloads over Google
Play & more then 800 thousand downloads via Xender, Share it Google.
It is the Highest Community heard, Highest community Downloaded & Highest
4.9 Stars Rated app rated by 13000 people.

You can download all Our Radios from the Google Play here-
https://goo.gl/nnxnMh

In fact you can simply search Radio Jay Bhim, Radio Namkin, Radio Saptrang
on the Google & you shall find many websites hosting our apps to drive
traffic on their websites.

We have met Dr. R. Sreedher in an Community Radio awareness workshop 4
years ago in Puna where he had discussed on the potential of Internet
radios in India & a great tool of alternative communications! This had
driven us to go ahead with this idea of starting internet Radio stations as
alternate communications.
We tried to source any companies that can start us Internet Radios as per
Indian mentality! But we only found few basic server providers! They layed
Radios but had lot of buffering! They only had desktop options!

So we started working on options to play internet radios on 2G networks
without buffering since the internet data was expansive coating 1 GB @ Rs.
249.
Our challenge was to cut down on the data usage too.
We also started to develop Android Apps as per Indian audience & their
choices!

The most important challenge was to deliver the Great Sound.

So we took the help of the developers from the US over skype & team viewer.
We purchased software's from them to be installed on our servers that
convert & encode heavy MP3 files to .OOG which later the Android App Player
can Decode & play Live stream & also consume very low data playing on low
internet.

Thus with tremendous try & errors, many hours & days of hard work and after
so many failures we developed successful Android Radio apps that played
live internet radio streams just @ 2 KB Per Second in Dolby HD stereo Sound
& without buffer, consuming just 7 to 10 MB internet data in 1 hour!

We also developed Super responsive Android Apps with Direct social connect
& tested our Android radios in running trains & locals @ the speed of 100
kms / per hour & our Radios Played flawless with out interruptions & rarely
stopping even on low networks.

Since the launch of JIOs Free internet our listeners had increased to large
numbers.

Today even other mobile service providers have also reduced their costs and
more & more people are switching to the internet radios as they are most
convenient, do not require headphones to play, no tuning is required, no
disturbances & play across the Globe in Dolby HD Stereo sound.

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Convenience of doing Live Shows from *anywhere in the world.*

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crystal studio sound quality without dependency on computers, scheduling-
broadcasting softwares!

*Direct People Talking to the People* & Direct *Voice to the voiceless! *

*With zero dependency you can b*roadcast your CRS & FM Radios, eventually
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human resource.

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Do direct Live shows from your Smart phones mike from anywhere in the world.
Our Apps encode the audio to studio quality. Great for going Live on Air
any time, do OB shows, for RJs & community members who cannot actually
visit studios. You can also record the audio in your phones sd card
with complete
control your radio station from your smart phone!

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Now no expansive software’s needed! No need to again & again schedule your
play list! No need to deploy staff after your working hours to monitor the
broadcast. You neither need any physical computer, sound cards, mixers or
multi band compressors any more for broadcasting! Simply upload all your
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to your community from your personal laptop from your home or even your
car! Simply press the "MIKE ON" button in your software that we provide you
in your laptop & you’re “Live”. After your over with the talk or live from
your laptop, you can just shutdown you laptop but your radio shall always
be On Air!

*We ensure your station is Live 24X7, nonstop!*

Thus you not only save on your costs, but also broadcast 24 hours. So now
your listeners don’t have to wait for your Broadcast hours to tune in.

At times it becomes extremely difficult & impossible for a CRS to bare huge
overheads & expanses.

Working in the Radio sector since 2001, we have realized that there is a
strong need of an automated system that cuts the entire extra operational
costs, reduces the human errors & cuts down the extra the human resource
that needs lot of financial support.

 We have designed the most economical technology to simplify all your
broadcasting needs, whether it may be commercial FM radios, CRS or even
internet Android radios.

*All our cloud servers are with fully automated control panels & our Radios
Play across the Globe @ just 2kbps without Buffer on even 2G Networks in
Dolby Crystal HD Stereo sound. *

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connect & sleeps timer options in easy swipe mode! You can also display RJ
profiles, show schedules; about us pages on your Radio App.

*The traditional FM Radios are very limited till the FM range or the city
limits.*

*But our Android Radios reach across the globe!** So more the reach, more
the revenue! *

Since JIO has revolutionized the internet experience & made it Free. So,
not really, is the internet a barrier in getting popularity for the
internet radios! All our Android Radio apps are very appealing to the
audience and we proud that we have achieved the top bench mark!

Our Android radios are world’s highest rated, highest community heard, &
world’s most successful Radio Apps.

E.g. - *Radio Jay Bhim*- 100 Thousand downloads @ Google Play, 500 Thousand
downloads via Google, Xender, share it, etc.

Our KVK Android campus *Radio Shiva* is India’s 1st Global Krishi Radio!
The Agriculture Cabinet Minister Mr. Radha Mohan Sing has appreciated our
efforts for the contribution in the agricultural sector for the alternative
communications.

*All Our radios are listed on all major websites & apps like-
http://radio.garden <http://radio.garden>*

*Features:*

   - *Dolby Crystal HD Stereo* Sound. (RD`O Codec Technology *)
   - Plays Best & instant on *2G/3G* networks at just 2kbps, any time much
   better than FM Radios! (NBitRate Compression Technology *).
   - No Scanning, No headphones, No disturbance- Simply launch the App &
   Enjoy our Radio`s across Globe.
   - All Social connects are extremely easy & direct with instant easy
   multi share features.
   - *Live TV* (Swipe2YouTube Live Technology *)
   - *World class Features Designed by the World’s best Android Developers
   from the USA.  *Designs based on authentic Indian survey.
   - *Powerful Radio Stream Engines* integrated in our Powerful App Engines
   to play digitally better then analogue Radios.
   - *Easy Swipe Radio Interface.*
   - *Sleep timer,* song request, send an email, show schedule, about us &
   much more!
   - No buffer technology- Built in BFR-NO Technology that ensures Zero
   buffering.
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   - Powerful Auto DJ control panel. Plays like Professional FM Radios.
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   man power needed, no need to keep your studio PCs, Gadgets, AC & Power to
   be on. Our powerful Cloud Servers works for you 24x7!
   - *Simple scheduler-* Schedule all your music & programming and
   just forget it.
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   mobile, like- Stop, Start, change and scheduling options.
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   & IP address, Unique listeners, Unique countries & much more.
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   that ensure 99.9% up time with zero Buffers.

*Over view on your running operational costs-* Running an FM Radio station
requires resources like studios, scheduling software’s, music scheduling
staff, programming head, broadcast computers, sound cards, multi band
compressors, Air conditioners, power backups, human resources,
maintenance's, etc.

Soundcards, hardware’s & computers may go faulty any time or face virus
infections letting your station down to go off air any time! Operating your
radio for 24 hours is a huge liability & dependency on power supply, over
time staff & security guards salaries, utility, electricity bills, etc.

*But with our digital cloud Radio services, you are always in safe hands!
You have none of the above liabilities or expanses and most important you
never go Off Air!*

Thanks to *Riggro Digital`s automated* *cloud Radio services* that had
simplified your broadcasting needs and reduced your expanses  to 90%
ensuring next to impossible off airs.

Kiran Verma
Riggro Digital Radio Broadcasting
9822372969

www.riggrodigital.com

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> Who said the technology is new? The technology is known for the past 20
> years. Most of the CR activtsts only were shouting from the roof top that
> internet penetration in India is very low and it is for the rich. Now
> Hemant Babu  one of the persons who shares your ideologies has done it from
> Uttarakhand, everyone should follow. When others say use internet, it
> becomes a rich man's property. The world over, right to connect is being
> taken as a fundamental right.  Hope the convergent media takes roots in the
> country .
>
> Dr. R. Sreedher
> Media expert and Community Radio Practitioner
> Emeritus Professor Apeejay Stya University, Sohna India
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> >    1.  Broadcasting from Bhimtal (Sajan Venniyoor)
> >    2. Re:  Broadcasting from Bhimtal (Arti Jaiman)
> >
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 10:43:40 +0530
> > From: Sajan Venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> > To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
> > Subject: [cr-india] Broadcasting from Bhimtal
> > Message-ID:
> >         <CA+2EU72O21z2ejY6JnMd3rB81HnV1aAZDZ6fN57yWzxZ=8agyQ at mail.gmail.
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> >
> > As a former public service broadcaster, used to large studios swarming
> with
> > technical staff and the occasional rodent, I had a rather unsettling
> > experience some days ago in Uttarakhand. I was dining at the Bhimtal
> > cottage of Hemant Babu of Nomad, and he was broadcasting over his
> internet
> > radio channel, *Reboot Radio *from a corner of his living room. Nameless
> > insects buzzed against the window panes and starlight gleamed on the
> > Bhimtal lake glimpsed through towering *sal *trees.
> >
> > Hemant was playing *Chop Suey! *and something by Joan Baez from his
> > playlist when it struck 9pm, and then he was on air for the next 20
> minutes
> > talking with someone over Skype about agriculture in the hills. His
> > interviewee was in Delhi.
> >
> > It occurred to me a little later that a radio station operating out of a
> > corner table in a hillside cottage, playing Armenian-American alternative
> > metal bands (I just looked that up) and agriculture in high altitudes
> > should have seemed a little surreal, but oddly enough, Hemant at his
> > microphone, fiddling with a second-hand laptop and tiny M-Audio mixer,
> > appeared perfectly in his element.
> >
> > Maybe it was the controlled substance I was smoking.
> >
> > My friend Cecil Pinto has just sent me an article from The Paris Review
> on
> > the "old weird days of National Public Radio in America" ("American
> Sounds
> > <https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/26/american-sounds/>",
> > Heather
> > Radke, 26 July '17), which makes the point that it's not just TV, but
> this
> > is probably the golden age of radio as well (though the term "radio" may
> be
> > a misnomer -- lets just say 'audio broadcast by any means'). The number
> of
> > unusual and brilliant podcasts coming out of the west is startling, and
> > though India is a little late to the party, we should be getting there
> > soon. Just run a search for 'Indian podcasts
> > <https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5qtul3/here_is_
> > a_complete_list_of_all_indian_podcasts/>'
> > and I guarantee you'll find something engrossing in there.
> >
> > And no, none of this is happening on FM radio.
> >
> > Years ago, in Bangalore, community radio activists had drafted the
> > *Bangalore
> > Declaration *which stated their belief that radio, ?besides educating and
> > entertaining people, [would] connect people with people through
> > participatory or circular communication, connect with organizations and
> > communities, and finally, connect people with government and public
> service
> > agencies?. That was 21 years ago, in the infancy of mobile phones and the
> > internet in India, long before there was such a thing as non-*sarkari *
> > radio.
> >
> > I'm not sure how much of that idealistic vision has come to pass, but
> it's
> > almost ten years since the first, genuinely community-led radio in India
> > (Sangam Radio in Pastapur) went on air, and so much has changed on the
> > ground since then.
> >
> > And, on radio, so little.
> >
> > I think a weariness has set in among CR activists and practitioners
> > regarding FM radio. Far from becoming a genuinely alternative and
> > democratic space for connecting people with people, it has remained
> rigidly
> > within government control -- either through inducements or threats --
> > unable to broadcast news or opinion, unable to survive without DAVP
> > handouts, or that magical always-promised-never-delivered Rs.100 crore
> > carrot that has dangled before our noses since the last UPA government.
> >
> > Maybe it's time we tried something different.
> >
> > As I watched Hemant hunched over his microphone on a cool hillside miles
> > away from Delhi -- unlicensed, unregulated, unkempt -- I caught a glimpse
> > of what could be the future of community broadcasting. Or all
> > broadcasting... who can tell?
> >
> > The fight to free the airwaves is far from over, but I'm glad some of us
> > are already entrenched in beachheads where the confused sounds of that
> > battle are heard but faintly.
> >
> > Sajan
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 06:26:04 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: Arti Jaiman <arti at trfindia.org>
> > To: Sajan Venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>, CR India
> >         <cr-india at sarai.net>
> > Subject: Re: [cr-india] Broadcasting from Bhimtal
> > Message-ID: <334100655.3244600.1501568764880 at mail.yahoo.com>
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> >
> > What a wonderful way of capturing the experience Sajan. Yes, I am looking
> > forward to the day when we can harness the distributed-ness of new
> > technology and build more interesting conversations on FM radio. Not too
> > far off in the future, hopefully.?
> > Arti?Arti JaimanStation DirectorGurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio
> > Gurgaon Ki Awaaz is the only civil society community radio station in the
> > National Capital Region of India, broadcasting continuously 22 hours a
> day
> > since 2009. The station is a platform for the diverse voices and
> > communities of Gurgaon, with a special emphasis on voices left out of the
> > mainstream media narrative.?
> >
> >       From: Sajan Venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> >  To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
> >  Sent: Tuesday, 1 August 2017 11:50 AM
> >  Subject: [cr-india] Broadcasting from Bhimtal
> >
> > As a former public service broadcaster, used to large studios swarming
> > with technical staff and the occasional rodent, I had a rather unsettling
> > experience some days ago in Uttarakhand. I was dining at the Bhimtal
> > cottage of Hemant Babu of Nomad, and he was broadcasting over his
> internet
> > radio channel, Reboot Radio from a corner of his living room. Nameless
> > insects buzzed against the window panes and starlight gleamed on the
> > Bhimtal lake glimpsed through towering sal trees.?
> > Hemant was playing Chop Suey! and something by Joan Baez from his
> playlist
> > when it struck 9pm, and then he was on air for the next 20 minutes
> talking
> > with someone over Skype about agriculture in the hills. His interviewee
> was
> > in Delhi.?
> > It occurred to me a little later that a radio station operating out of a
> > corner table in a hillside cottage, playing Armenian-American alternative
> > metal bands (I just looked that up) and agriculture in high altitudes
> > should have seemed a little surreal, but oddly enough, Hemant at his
> > microphone, fiddling with a second-hand laptop and tiny M-Audio mixer,
> > appeared perfectly in his element.?
> > Maybe it was the controlled substance I was smoking.
> >
> > My friend Cecil Pinto has just sent me an article from The Paris Review
> on
> > the "old weird days of National Public Radio in America" ("American
> > Sounds", Heather Radke, 26 July '17), which makes the point that it's not
> > just TV, but this is probably the golden age of radio as well (though the
> > term "radio" may be a misnomer -- lets just say 'audio broadcast by any
> > means'). The number of unusual and brilliant podcasts coming out of the
> > west is startling, and though India is a little late to the party, we
> > should be getting there soon. Just run a search for 'Indian podcasts'
> and I
> > guarantee you'll find something engrossing in there.
> > And no, none of this is happening on FM radio.
> > Years ago, in Bangalore, community radio activists had drafted the
> > Bangalore Declaration which stated their belief that radio, ?besides
> > educating and entertaining people, [would] connect people with people
> > through participatory or circular communication, connect with
> organizations
> > and communities, and finally, connect people with government and public
> > service agencies?. That was 21 years ago, in the infancy of mobile phones
> > and the internet in India, long before there was such a thing as
> > non-sarkari radio.?
> > I'm not sure how much of that idealistic vision has come to pass, but
> it's
> > almost ten years since the first, genuinely community-led radio in India
> > (Sangam Radio in Pastapur) went on air, and so much has changed on the
> > ground since then.?
> > And, on radio, so little.?
> > I think a weariness has set in among CR activists and practitioners
> > regarding FM radio. Far from becoming a genuinely alternative and
> > democratic space for connecting people with people, it has remained
> rigidly
> > within government control -- either through inducements or threats --
> > unable to broadcast news or opinion, unable to survive without DAVP
> > handouts, or that magical always-promised-never-delivered Rs.100 crore
> > carrot that has dangled before our noses since the last UPA government.?
> > Maybe it's time we tried something different.?
> > As I watched Hemant hunched over his microphone on a cool hillside miles
> > away from Delhi?-- unlicensed, unregulated, unkempt -- I caught a glimpse
> > of what could be the future of community broadcasting. Or all
> > broadcasting... who can tell??
> > The fight to free the airwaves is far from over, but I'm glad some of us
> > are already entrenched in beachheads where the confused sounds of that
> > battle are heard but faintly.?
> > SajanJoin the Community Radio Forum.
> >
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