MUMBAI: Mangalore based community Radio station Sarang 107.8 FM will be celebrating its first birthday by hosting a new weekly series 'Sarang-Raknno Samvaad Vedi' and bring on air several Konkani writers and poets.
The official announcement states, "Listeners who have read these writers but had no chance to listen to them, can now listen to their voices and hear what they have to say."
The show is planned as a 52-episode radio serial, and will commence on 22 July at 7.30 a.m. with a repeat telecast at 1.00 and 6.30pm. ...
MUMBAI: Allotment of same frequency, 107.8 FM has created discord between two community radio stations in Mumbai.
The frequency 107.8 FM was allotted to Mumbai University in February 2008 and the community radio station has been since operational as Must FM.
The problem started when the Wireless planning and coordination (WPC) wing of the Ministry of Communication allotted the same frequency to Bandra based community radio ‘Jago Mumbai’. ...
MUMBAI: Although India embraced 3G technology with the recent bidding, there are still corners in the country with no means of communication for the locals.
One such area is the tribal belt of Chattisgarh and inspite of population growth upto four million, the tribals are alienated from the outer world. There is no penetration of newspapers or television in the area and All India Radio also fails to fill in the vaccum. In such a scenario, freelance journalist Shubhranshu Choudhary has initiated mobile community radio in the region....
MUMBAI: As a part of its silver jubilee celebration this year in July, Ranchi University (RU) is all set to launch its own community radio station.
Vice-chancellor of the university A A Khan said that they would soon approach the Prasar Bharti for the licence to operate a station shortly so that it could be on the air before the launch of the celebrations.
Ranchi University will be the second in the line to start a community radio in the state. Last year, the Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) launched a community radio Hariali, specially dedicated for farmers. ...
NEW DELHI: The Central India Institute of Science and Technology in Indore has been permitted to operate a community radio station with the information and Broadcasting Ministry signing a Grant of Permission Agreement.
With this, the number of CRs in the country has gone up to 67. The Letter of Intent had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of the Inter Ministerial Committee and seeking requisite clearances from various Ministries, and the CR station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement....
MUMBAI: Uttarakhand's first community radio which will cater to 15 villages was today inauguarted by Uttarakhand Governor Margaret Alva.
The 'Kumaon Vani', which has been set up by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will benfit nearly 2000 villagers, according to agency report.
Alva said the community radio would prove to be effective medium of communication for the people of Uttarakhand and also play an important role in women empowerment. ...
NEW DELHI: With the grant of permission to the National Institute for Visually Handicapped in Dehradun to start its own radio station, the number of Community Radio Stations has gone up to 66 in the country.
The first CRS being set up specifically for the visually handicapped, the station is expected to be operational within three months. The Letter of Intent by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of the Inter Ministerial Committee and seeking requisite clearances from various Ministries....
NEW DELHI: The number of sanctioned community radio stations has risen to 65 with the government permitting the M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering in District Karur of Tamil Nadu to operate a station.
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating the Station. The Letter of Intent had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of Inter Ministerial Committee and seeking requisite clearances from various Ministries. ...
MUMBAI: A community radio station will soon come up at “The Energy Resources Institute”, Disttt. Mukteshwar, Uttaranchal.
The Letter of Intent had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC). The Community Radio Station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement. With this, the number of CRS will increase to 64 in the country. ...
MUMBAI: Hint Institute of Mass Communication will set up its own community radio station in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh within an estimated three months.
With this, the number of CRS in the country will increase to 64.recommendations of Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC). The Community Radio Station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agree...
NEW DELHI: Lady Irwin College (Delhi University) has joined hands with South Asia’s first full time broadcast school- Academy of Radio Management (ARM) to launch an industry-oriented certificate programme in Radio Management.
Students completing the course will be issued a “Certificate in Radio Management" jointly by Lady Irwin College and Academy of Radio Management, Delhi....
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat Institute of Amateur Radio (GIAR) hosted HamfestIndia-2008, the annual gathering of radio amateurs from India on 11 and 12 October, at the sprawling Town Hall, Gandhinagar, capital of Gujarat.
Over 300 delegates from different parts of India, mostly from the western parts of the country, attended it.
Gujarat Assembly speaker Ashok Bhatt lighted the inaugural lamp for the Hamfest. During his brief speech, he emphasised that amateur radio ( or ham radio as it is popularly called) is no longer a hobby , and is a necessity now....
MUMBAI: Students of IIT Bombay have launched their own campus web based radio station.t have their own successful on campus radio stations. Sajid Shariff, the general secretary of cultural affairs, IIT Bombay, says that they intend to provide the students through their LAN based radio station with a platform to voice their opinions, take part in debates and allow them to be more informed. The shows will include campus, city, national and international news, music, reviews of websites, information on boo...
MUMBAI: The third annual meet of the Community Radio Forum was organised on 14 February at Radio Bundelkhand, Orchha. Resolutions regarding forming a consortium for approaching advertisers, relocating the secretariat for Community Radio Forum, reserving 4 MHz of frequency for CRs and lifting the current ban on news were suggested during the meet....
MUMBAI: The Pune based Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication will start its own community radio, ‘Radio Symbi’ on its premises and plans to launch it by February in the next academic year.
“We have already applied for the necessary government licence for our campus radio and would be starting the radio once we procure the licence”, confirms SIMC Students’ Council President Mitin Chakraborty....
NEW DELHI: The number of Gyan Vani FM Radio channels set up by the Human Resources Development Ministry and the Indira Gandhi National Open University with the help of Prasar Bharati will go up to 37 shortly, with 11 more channels coming up in Phase-1.
These 37 stations, with a radius of 60 to 70 km, are dedicated FM stations for education and broadcast programmes of interest to students. Some of these are located in places such as Jabalpur, Raipur, Guwahati, Shillong, etc. which have significant remote areas with tribal population in their reach. ...
NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced its plan to launch a six-month certificate programme in 'community radio' from January 2009.
IGNOU will launch the programme in collaboration with the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA).
IGNOU Vice Chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai said, “In the certificate programme IGNOU has added a 10 day internship as a compulsory component of the programme to ensure that students get a first hand experience at a community radio station”....
MUMBAI: Lucknow University is all set to launch its own community radio station.
The Mass Communication department of the university had received the grant of permission agreement from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The station has received its letter of intent two weeks ago and it will start operating within six months.
Dr Mukul Srivastava, a faculty member in the mass communication department says, “The department had applied for a licence around one-and-a-half-years ago, but could get clearance only now.” ...
MUMBAI: Gurgaon based NGO, TRF (The Restoring Force) would be soon launching its community radio in Udyog Vihar, villages of Garhi Harsaru, Dhankot and adjoining areas. TRF had already been allotted frequency of 107.8 MHz by the Information and Broadcasting ministry. The NGO had applied for a radio license in the start of last year and received the Letter of Intent from I & B ministry in August 2008. ...
MUMBAI: Delhi based NGO, Development Alternatives (DA) will soon start a community radio station in Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, becoming the country's second NGO to get a CR license to operate. The Maharashtra based NGO Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha-MVSS became the first to get a licence to run a community radio in Aswad village and will go on air from 15 September. The Development Alternatives station, Radio Bundelkhand acquired Wireless Planning & Coordination - WPC's wing Standing Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency Allocation (SACFA) and I&B Ministry license on 31 July 2008 and wo...
MUMBAI: Students of IIT Bombay have launched their own campus web based radio station.t have their own successful on campus radio stations. Sajid Shariff, the general secretary of cultural affairs, IIT Bombay, says that they intend to provide the students through their LAN based radio station with a platform to voice their opinions, take part in debates and allow them to be more informed. The shows will include campus, city, national and international news, music, reviews of websites, information on boo...
MUMBAI: In a move aimed at encouraging more community radio stations in India, the ministry of Information and Broadcasting is organising a series of state-level workshops across the country.
The ministry has already held three consultations in November at Rajashthan, Shillong and Haryana. Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia are the facilitators for the workshop....
MUMBAI: The Sharanbasaveshwar Vidya Vardhak Sangha will set up its community radio station in Gulbarga, Karnataka within an estimated three months' time.
With this, the number of CRS will increase to 39 in the country.
According to a government release, the ministry of information and broadcasting has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station (CRS) with the Sharanbasaveshwar Vidya Vardhak Sangha, a Gulbarga base NGO....
MUMBAI: Gurgaon based NGO, TRF (The Restoring Force) would be soon launching its community radio in Udyog Vihar, villages of Garhi Harsaru, Dhankot and adjoining areas. TRF had already been allotted frequency of 107.8 MHz by the Information and Broadcasting ministry. The NGO had applied for a radio license in the start of last year and received the Letter of Intent from I & B ministry in August 2008. ...
MUMBAI: A Grant of Permission Agreement has been signed by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (I&B), Government of India to establish, maintain and operate a Community Radio Station (CRS) at Manav Rachna Education Society, Faridabad, Haryana.
The Community Radio Station is likely to be operational within three months as per the agreement. With this, the number of CRS will increase to 51 in the country....
MUMBAI: 'Jago Mumbai' 107.8 FM, the community radio venture initiated by the Union Park Residents Association, Mumbai is hopeful of hitting the airwaves in January next year.Having signed the GOPA (Grant of Permission Agreement) in September 2009 with the Information and Broadcasting ministry, the NGO is on the lookout for sponsors to fund the project....
MUMBAI: Mangalore based community radio station by St. Aloysius College- Radio Sarang 107.8 has introduced a new dimension to their programming by airing a phone-in program this month. of department of Mass Communication and Journalism and Sarang director Dr Richard Rego, “We introduced the slot to create awareness about the legal procedure and educate masses on legal problems. We have a weekly half an h...
NEW DELHI: The Central India Institute of Science and Technology in Indore has been permitted to operate a community radio station with the information and Broadcasting Ministry signing a Grant of Permission Agreement.
With this, the number of CRs in the country has gone up to 67. The Letter of Intent had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of the Inter Ministerial Committee and seeking requisite clearances from various Ministries, and the CR station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement....
MUMBAI: BBC World Service announced its tie up with a Chandigarh-based community Vivek 90.4 FM. Available in some radio stations across India, Vivek FM will be the first community radio to have BBC service on air. The shows offered by BBC on Vivek 90.4 FM are a weekly science programme, Discovery, Culture shock, Top of the pops offering weekly UK music chart rundowns, The ticket, One planet, Health fact Files providing essential information about different aspects of your health, Charlie Gillett's World of Music and Science in action which looks at science stories in and behind the news fr...
MUMBAI: A Maharashtra based NGO Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha-MVSS has acquired the licence to run a community radio last week, becoming the first in the NGO sector in the country to join the CR (community radio) network. The NGO works for empowering the women in rural areas and got the license for aswad village in Satara. MVSS president Chetna Gala Sinha asserts, "Many NGOs had applied with the I&B Ministry and we were the first ones to obtain it. The radio station would be an extension of our NGO activities and will be used as a tool to propagate our financial plans. Many times, the vil...
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MUMBAI: Students of IIT Bombay have launched their own campus web based radio station.t have their own successful on campus radio stations. Sajid Shariff, the general secretary of cultural affairs, IIT Bombay, says that they intend to provide the students through their LAN based radio station with a platform to voice their opinions, take part in debates and allow them to be more informed. The shows will include campus, city, national and international news, music, reviews of websites, information on boo...
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MUMBAI: In a move aimed at encouraging more community radio stations in India, the ministry of Information and Broadcasting is organising a series of state-level workshops across the country.
The ministry has already held three consultations in November at Rajashthan, Shillong and Haryana. Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia are the facilitators for the workshop....
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MUMBAI: The Sharanbasaveshwar Vidya Vardhak Sangha will set up its community radio station in Gulbarga, Karnataka within an estimated three months' time.
With this, the number of CRS will increase to 39 in the country.
According to a government release, the ministry of information and broadcasting has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station (CRS) with the Sharanbasaveshwar Vidya Vardhak Sangha, a Gulbarga base NGO....
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MUMBAI: Gurgaon based NGO, TRF (The Restoring Force) would be soon launching its community radio in Udyog Vihar, villages of Garhi Harsaru, Dhankot and adjoining areas. TRF had already been allotted frequency of 107.8 MHz by the Information and Broadcasting ministry. The NGO had applied for a radio license in the start of last year and received the Letter of Intent from I & B ministry in August 2008. ...
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MUMBAI: A Grant of Permission Agreement has been signed by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (I&B), Government of India to establish, maintain and operate a Community Radio Station (CRS) at Manav Rachna Education Society, Faridabad, Haryana.
The Community Radio Station is likely to be operational within three months as per the agreement. With this, the number of CRS will increase to 51 in the country....
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MUMBAI: 'Jago Mumbai' 107.8 FM, the community radio venture initiated by the Union Park Residents Association, Mumbai is hopeful of hitting the airwaves in January next year.Having signed the GOPA (Grant of Permission Agreement) in September 2009 with the Information and Broadcasting ministry, the NGO is on the lookout for sponsors to fund the project....
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MUMBAI: Mangalore based community radio station by St. Aloysius College- Radio Sarang 107.8 has introduced a new dimension to their programming by airing a phone-in program this month. of department of Mass Communication and Journalism and Sarang director Dr Richard Rego, “We introduced the slot to create awareness about the legal procedure and educate masses on legal problems. We have a weekly half an h...
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NEW DELHI: The Central India Institute of Science and Technology in Indore has been permitted to operate a community radio station with the information and Broadcasting Ministry signing a Grant of Permission Agreement.
With this, the number of CRs in the country has gone up to 67. The Letter of Intent had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of the Inter Ministerial Committee and seeking requisite clearances from various Ministries, and the CR station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement....
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MUMBAI: BBC World Service announced its tie up with a Chandigarh-based community Vivek 90.4 FM. Available in some radio stations across India, Vivek FM will be the first community radio to have BBC service on air. The shows offered by BBC on Vivek 90.4 FM are a weekly science programme, Discovery, Culture shock, Top of the pops offering weekly UK music chart rundowns, The ticket, One planet, Health fact Files providing essential information about different aspects of your health, Charlie Gillett's World of Music and Science in action which looks at science stories in and behind the news fr...
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MUMBAI: A Maharashtra based NGO Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha-MVSS has acquired the licence to run a community radio last week, becoming the first in the NGO sector in the country to join the CR (community radio) network. The NGO works for empowering the women in rural areas and got the license for aswad village in Satara. MVSS president Chetna Gala Sinha asserts, "Many NGOs had applied with the I&B Ministry and we were the first ones to obtain it. The radio station would be an extension of our NGO activities and will be used as a tool to propagate our financial plans. Many times, the vil...
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