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And my worry is thats where radio broadcasters may come up short. One of the challenges facing community radio was distribution cards.
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Challenges facing community radio. Community radio is wide-ranging many agree as are the challenges associated with community radio development. Community radio activists who have seen both the benefits and the difficulties of community radio claim that the donor community does not fully recognize the wide-ranging benefits of community radio in development and thus fail to respond. Communities are complex entities and so what constitutes community in Community radio is often a contentious and tricky debate and will vary from country to country.
This is a qualitative comparative study on sustainability challenges facing the community radio sector in Limpopo Province South Africa. The study explores and determines community radios social acceptance to target communities identifies its fundraising and marketing strategies and evaluates its governance and management policies. One of the challenges faced by community radio stations was that some were not compliant with the minimum requirements for ICASA licensing.
She also highlighted how this caused backlogs which could be resolved with the establishment of policies that could respond to these backlogs. Challenges of Running Community Radio. I.
This is worth a read as it has lessons for all those who wish to engage with mass media and community. The fundamental factor about community radio according to the Association Mondiale Des Radio diffuseurs Communautaires AMARC that is the World Association of Community Broadcasters is that it responds to the needs of the community it serves contributing to its development within progressive perspectives in favour of social change. And striving to democratise communication through.
Community radio stations are operated owned and driven by the communities they serve. Community radio is not-for profit and provides a mechanism for facilitating individuals groups and communities to tell their own diverse stories to share experiences and in a media rich world to become active creators and contributors of media. One of the challenges facing community radio was distribution cards.
Another challenge was the fact that it was in competition with the commercial and public broadcasters. The quality of the product from community radio sector therefore had to be at the same level as the other sectors. Thats because many of you know what I know about broadcast radios mounting challenges.
They are many and they require ongoing investment in both financial and human resources. But they also require strong wills courageous leadership and vision. And my worry is thats where radio broadcasters may come up short.
Fundamental market changes are pushing radio stations towards an uncertain future and managers and owners need to begin developing strategic responses to developments in their industry. The challenges are being caused by declining demand for radio offerings due to lifestyle changes the wide availability of substitutable audio platforms and the primary content currently being offered. Despite these benefits of radio the radio industry is facing tremendous challenges in its growth.
One professionalism concerns have been raised regarding the level of professionalism and the ethical conduct of those involved in the sector. This has led to the utter disregard of the basic rules of reportage by most players. According to the findings some of the major challenges facing the community radio stations are lack of salary or poor remuneration inadequate equipment low capacity generators insufficient working space unprofessional productions and high staff turnover.
There are a number of challenges to implementing successful participatory and sustainable community media initiatives. These challenges make it inevitable to achieve the vision of knowledge societies such as increasing ICT diffusion and adoption creating ICT pilot projects ensuring sustainability and visibility of ICT initiatives creating ICT industries and systematically analysing research on the global. The challenges to broadcast radio are very real but it remains in a position of strength with unique attributes that cannot be replaced by online-only audio services.
An analysis by Marcello Lombardo EBU of the relative costs of distributing radio via DAB or internet made clear that IP-only delivery would be much too expensive both for broadcasters and listeners. Sustainability is the term generally used in the literature dealing with the challenges faced by community radio. However the word points in some directions which are not helpful to clear thinking.
It suggests sustainability is a happy state of prosperity and stability that can be reached by a station and which will then endure. Challenges Facing Community Based Radio Stations. Home RESEARCH PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS IN KENYA Challenges Facing Community Based Radio Stations.
November 19 2018 by ladychampionz. Our five-year forecasts show average annual declines of 38 percent overall from 118 billion last year to 95 billion in 2022. Local radio advertising is slightly more insulated so were.