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Momentum for Change: 14 years of community broadcasting for development with Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)

Web version:

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/119294818/Momentum-for-Change-Community-Radio-in-Bangladesh

It gives me a great pleasure to present you the Momentum for Change: Community Radio in Bangladesh – Voice of Rural People.

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been struggling for the last 14 years to open up the community broadcasting including Community Radio, Community Television and giving emphasis on its vital role as voices of the voiceless people. BNNRC has been addressing the community radio, community TV and community film access issue. For helping to bridge the information gap of rural Bangladesh.

Now 14 Community Radio Stations are on-air in the country, aiming to ensure empowerment and right to information for the rural community. They are broadcasting altogether 120 hours program per day on information, education, local entertainment and development motivation activities. Around 536 youth & youth-women are now working with those stations throughout the country as rural broadcasters.
The reality of today is that the bondage between the community people and local-level community radio stations are getting strengthened day-by-day. Community Radio has now become their part of life. Community Radio becomes the improving for the life & livelihood of the rural people.
Besides BNNRC has been awarded affiliate membership with Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) & Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU) for knowledge exchange and resource sharing in regional and global level.
BNNRC has initiated a process to explore the future of development cooperation and the role of community broadcasting over the next 15 years, and we already have a new challenge! While we are in the process to set up Community Media News Agency (CMNA), Community Media Academy (CMA) & online web portal for community radio at national level.

In this opportunity, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Government, Development Partners, Academia, Researchers, Media, CSOs and Initiators taking interest on issue of community broadcasting for development in Bangladesh.

We invite you to join in our STRUGGLE! We hope you are – or will become one of our future partners for promoting community broadcasting in Bangladesh.

Let’s all do our part to build Momentum for Change in Bangladesh through Community Broadcasting.

AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)
[NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council]
&
Head, Community Media Academy

House: 13/1, Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 Bangladesh
Phone: +88-02-9130750 , +88-02-9138501 , Cell: +88 01711881647
Fax: 88-02-9138501-105,
E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net, bnnrcbd@gmail.com www.bnnrc.net

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Tudno FM is proud to announce that our five year license has been extended until 2018 by regulators OFCOM.

This momentous decision means that the station can continue to grow and promote other charitable organisations.

We would like to thank all the volunteers, funders and importantly, the listeners that have made the station what it is today, without you all, we would not have been awarded the 5 year extension on the licence!

By granting us this extension, OFCOM have shown that they have faith in us to continue to grow and prosper!

www.tudnofm.com

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In December and January, BBC Audio & Music will be opening the doors of its Radio HQs for two evenings of networking and guest speakers:

1) 5pm-7.30pm, Thursday 6 December 2012 – New Broadcasting House, London

2) 5pm-7.30pm, Wednesday 16 January 2013 – BBC Quay House, MediaCityUK, Salford

Sessions on the evenings are:

a) The importance of community radio in the developing world and the work of BBC Media Action

b) My journey from community radio to the BBC, from 1Xtra’s newest signing Yasmin Evans

c) My radio career – Nihal, BBC Asian Network, London / Mary Anne Hobbs in Salford

Members of the Community Media Association (CMA) and their community radio colleagues are invited to attend.

Please RSVP to this email address (internal.communication@bbc.co.uk), indicating which date you would like to attend.

Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to CMA members.

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Hello there,
We are about to be running a student radio station which will be broadcasting online.
We want to record all our output.
and basically we are looking for a free (or really really cheap) software that will record out output.
any ideas?
Conor

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Link: http://zunia.org/uploads/media/knowledge/Community Radio in Bangladesh – Achievement & Challenges1346306667.pdf

Community Radio in Bangladesh:
Achievement and Challenge- Recent Experience

It is really amazing that toady 14 community radios are broadcasting 100 hours program in a day! I am proud to feel that community radio is taking place as an essential mass media within the lives of the rural people. We gave thanks to Ministry of Information of Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh that they have approved community radio activities with the objectives to achieve empowerment and to ensure right to information of the rural people. What was our dream now becomes a reality in 2012!

We could rightly identify that due to globalization, in receiving information and knowledge, the difference between urban and rural societies widened. As a result, people are losing access to the basic ingredients of life. As days go on they are becoming asset-less. On this context, we have started policy advocacy with government for community radio installation to exchange and disseminate information and knowledge effectively within the rural society. We also believe that any good work needs devotion and dedication. We have now achieved community radio after 14 years of dedication.

However we did not fail! While we see 536 young boy and girls are now working as rural broadcasters in community radio stations. A total of 125 (98 male and 27 female) are now involved in community radio station management committees from the rural community and trying to achieve the ownership at the local level. The government officials and civil society at upazila/district level have joined in CR station Advisory Committee and started motivating the mass people to take part in local development and entertainment by using community radio as a platform for mutual learning. In this way, these officials are taking a great role to build a knowledge-based society at rural level. Therefore our effort for 14 years was not mere wastage!

The reality of today is that the bondage between the community radio and local-level radio stations are getting strengthened day-by-day. Community Radio has now become their part of life. Community Radio becomes the instrument for the livelihood battle of the rural people. We have now started advocacy with the government of Bangladesh on community television. We hope that community television will come into being within a short time.

Community Radio Stations in Bangladesh will be a wonderful platform for dialogue of the rural people. This dialogue will help the community to discover their own voice. For them, this will ensure helpful social, economic and cultural conditions and the freedom of opinion in the realm of politics.

We hope this book will be useful for the community media activist, policy makers, academia and development partners working to achieve a free, independent and pluralistic community media sector of voices for the voiceless in rural Bangladesh

With best wishes,

Bazlu

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AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)
[NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council]
&
Head, Community Media Academy

House: 13/1, Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 Bangladesh
Phone: +88-02-9130750 , +88-02-9138501 , Cell: +88 01711881647
Fax: 88-02-9138501-105,
E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net, bnnrcbd@gmail.com www.bnnrc.net

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Does anyone have a basic Commission Only Sales Contract that they can share with me please? We have now managed to find the correct person for our Severn FM management Team however we need to ensure we have a HMRC friendly contract with the limited funding we have. Thanks. Andy.

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Volunteer sound/broadcast engineers, programme editors, programme makers, interviewers and presenters, wanted for new Catholic Internet Radio

If you’ve a bit of time and would like to contribute to something worthwhile in the community, we’d be delighted to hear from you – we’re a lively bunch and want people to enjoy their time helping us produce an interesting mix of programmes to broadcast to our Catholic audience.

We go live on 16th September and still have opportunities to contribute to new projects. See our attached schedule and visit hguh.co.uk to learn more about us. Our studio is at Wonersh, near Guildford, and much of our material will be pre-recorded. Many of our projects such as programme making, audio file editing or admin can be done via the internet, but to broadcast you would need to be able to get to Wonersh.

We are particularly interested in sound/editing and broadcasting engineers. We’d also love to hear from you if you are:

* An experienced or keen in-experienced presenter
* Don’t want to present but want to do something else
* Want to do something for the Catholic community but not sure what

You don’t have to be Catholic to join the team, but you should have sympathy with Christianity. More details here – http://www.hguh.co.uk/volunteers.htm or get in touch with us at hguh.info@hguh.co.uk .

Looking Forward to hearing from you!
Jillie
Heart Gives Unto Heart Catholic Internet Radio
www.hguh.co.uk

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Consultation on Review of Community Radio Policy 2008:
Proposed Inclusion, Revision and Change

A Consultation for Policy review on Community Radio Installation, Operation and Broadcasting Policy 2008 entitled:”Proposed Inclusion, Revision and Change “has been taken place 7 May 2012 at 10 a.m. at JATRI Training Hall Karwan Bazar, Dhaka. Bangladesh
The consultation was organized by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC).Representatives of different Community Radio stations, veteran media experts, academics and UNICEF officials participated in the program. Mr. Syed Tamjidur Rahman, Chief Executive Officer of Change Maker facilitated the session.

After a brief introduction by the participants, Mr.AHM Bazlur Rahman- S21BR, Chief Executive Officer of BNNRC welcomed the participants. He mentioned that after a long term policy advocacy govt.has announced the Community Radio Policy 2008 and approved license for 14 Community Radio stations. Out of these 10 stations are already on-air and the rest are coming on-air by this month. This is a good time to reflect on the policy and govt.has rightly chosen the time to review the document. The inputs of the in initiators will enrich the initiative of the govt.
In the consultation, as regards to inclusion, revision and change(proposed) in the policy document; valuable suggestions and inputs have been provided by Mr. S.M. Shameem Reza, Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka, Nance Weber, C4D Unit Chief, UNICEF-Bangladesh, other officials of the unit Ms.Anu Kapur and Sayedul Haque Milky, reputed development expert Faruq Faisal, Jamil Ahmed, Executive Director, JATRI and Shamima Akhtar, Executive Director, ESO Foundation and Focal person for WIN-Bangladesh.

From among the Community Radio Stations/initiators Md.Hasib Hossain Community Radio Mahananda 98.8, Mr. Azizur Rahman, Community Pallikantha 99.2, Sultan Mahmud, Community Radio Bikrampur 99.2, Dr.AKM Shahidul Islam Community Radio Nalta 99.2, Mostafiz Gani Community Radio Padma 99.2, Subir Das Community Radio Sagargiri 99.2 and Mahbubul Haque Community Radio Barendra 99.2.
The speakers shared their experiences and lessons learned and provided some valuable suggestions so that these would be considered during the review process of the CR Policy by the govt.

BNNRC will now compile the recommendations and place those to the Ministry of Information as part of the inputs from the civil society and grassroots level initiators to policy review process.

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A new internet radio station had a “soft” launch in July 2011. Called Golden Oldies Plymouth Radio, the radio station was launched after the demise of Plymouth Sound Radio. The station fully launched in early 2012 truly promising a wide range of variety with an extensive playlist regularly updated every week.

The Radio station is different in that it plays music from as far back as 1950 and up to 1989. All music genres are included such as Bluegrass, Country, regular pop music, Hard/Soft Rock and Album tracks.

Listeners can listen to the station by either going to the website www.goldenoldiesplymouth.co.uk or Facebook at Golden Oldies Plymouth. The station is also on the Tunein, Yourmuze and Nobex apps for all popular smartphones.

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World Press Freedom Day 2012: 3rd May 2012
Community Radio Station level in Bangladesh

World Press Freedom Day 2012 is going to be observed in all Community Radio stations simultaneously on May 03, 2012. In the mean while, all Community Radio stations are preparing them for celebrating the day first time in Bangladesh at Community Radio station level with support from Free Press Unlimited.

Addressing the Global theme of the day is New Voices: Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies, a theme has been fixed up in the context of Bangladesh: “Press Freedom is essential for social transformation: Community Radio has started its venture in this struggle”.

In this occasion “World Press freedom Day 2012”, Community Radio stations will arrange a press conference locally on the issue, “Community Radio and World Press freedom Day”. Representatives from local media, media practitioners, civil society members, local administration and delegates from different level of the society will be invited in the event.

Celebrating the day “World Press freedom Day 2012”, Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication has already been published a special poster. The message of the poster is: “Press Freedom is essential for social transformation Community Radio has started its venture for establishing Good Governance and democratic practice”.

“World Press freedom Day” is a tool for ensuring the freedom of media practitioners. It will be the strength to establish a desired healthy pluralistic society as well as social transformation, which will encourage the global media practitioners to be self-reliance for striving in the future days. Thus a Good governance and democratic friendly new social structure will be ensured.

With the support from Free Press Unlimited, all 14 Community Radio stations namely – Community Radio Padma 99.2, Community Radio Nalta 99.2, Community Radio Loko Betar 99.2, Community Radio Pollikantha, Community Radio Sagar Giri 99.2, Community Radio Mohananda 98.8, Community Radio Mukti 99.2, Radio Chilmari 99.2, Community Radio Jhenuk 99.2, Community Rural Radio Krishi Radio 98.8, Community Borendro radio 99.2, Community Radio Naf 99.2 , Community Radio Sundarban 98.8 and Community Radio Bikrampur 99.2 are going to celebrate “World Press freedom Day 2012” on May 3, 2012 for the first time in Bangladesh facilitated by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC). For More info: ceo@bnnrc.net
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