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Radio Revolution In India: The Story Of Phenomenal Medium And Its Challenges, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Sep 2013

Radio Revolution In India: The Story Of Phenomenal Medium And Its Challenges, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Since broadcasting has been opened up to private broadcasters about 6-7 years ago, the private FMs have thrived. Suriyan FM and many other FMs like 93.1 and others have ushered in an entertainment revolution. The monopoly of All India Radio has been broken and AIR has also come up with some FM stations. The situation has changed some years ago and it has ushered in an private FM stations. Also some community radio stations and college FM stations like Anna FM, MOP FM and Loyola FMs have come up in big numbers. All these promise to bring out a broadcasting …


Community Radio:History,Growth,Challenges And Current Status Of It With Special Reference To India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Oct 2010

Community Radio:History,Growth,Challenges And Current Status Of It With Special Reference To India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting content that is popular to a local audience but which may often be overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Modern-day community radio stations often serve their listeners by offering a variety of content that is not necessarily provided by the larger commercial radio stations. Community radio outlets may carry news and information programming geared toward the local area, particularly immigrant or minority groups that are poorly served by other major media outlets. Philosophically two distinct approaches to community radio can be discerned, …