Ramana Voices FM 90.4, a community radio station with a difference, launches in Bangalore
Indiantelevision.com Team (6 October 2008 5:00 pm) BANGALORE: Bangalore-based Shree Ramana Mahrishi Academy of the Blind launched a first-of-its-kind community radio station in Asia yesterday. Ramana Voices FM 90.4 is the station that will be available initially over a neighbourhood of 6 to 7 km of the academy. The range is to be increased later. The shows will begin broadcasting everyday at 8 am and aired in a loop. The academy is in the process of empanelling RJs and around 50 per cent of these will be visually impaired people according to the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia director Dr R Sreedhar while speaking with Indiantelevision.com. "We already have a couple of visually challenged students who have volunteered to play RJs," informed Dr Sreedhar. The launch honours were done by Dr Sreedhar on Sunday. The station will not limit its activities to the physically challenged alone, but will serve the community and the neighbourhood as a whole, revealed Dr. Sredhar. As reported earlier, (http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/june/june344.php), Bangalore already has a community radio station that was launched by the Jain Group of Institutions (JGI) at Radio Active 107.8. Another community radio station by Narayana Hrudayalaya (a cardiac hospital) is likely to be launched soon in the city according to industry sources. Meanwhile, Dr Shreedhar informs that Dehradun's National Institute for the Visually Handicapped has been granted a licence to start a community radio station in that city, but has yet to do so. http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k8/oct/oct44.php YOU CAN SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY RADIO FORUM (India) BY JOINING AND TAKING AN ACTIVE PART IN ONE OF THESE NETWORKS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-awareness (Awareness building) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-helpdesk (Offering help) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-policy-advocacy (Policy advocacy) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-techoptions (Technical options) _______________________________________________ cr-india mailing list [email protected] https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india
