Broadcasting of news in radio gives a ‘light in the
darkness’. The
first news was broadcast through radio in India on July 23, 1927 by a private
company. Since 1930, news has been broadcast by Indian State Broadcasting
Service a public broadcaster, which was named as All India Radio in 1936. There
are total of 510 news bulletins daily broadcast by this public service radio.
But due to the technology and style of programming, the demand of the AIR is
decreasing day by day. This is the age of FM technology and it is true that
people want to listen noise free programmes, whether it may be entertaining or
informative programme. But, the Community Radio policy of India does not allow
the news to be broadcast through community radio, unlike the policy of
Bangladesh.
The community radio
(CR) stations of Bangladesh provide the most important information to the
community through their news bulletins several times in a day that encourages
the community to step forward with rest of the world. The people can be
categorized now as ‘information rich’ and ‘information poor’. Community radio
is targeted for the second category to overcome the biggest threat of the
present time- digital divide. News in radio is the most suitable format of
programme that provides information within a very limited time to feed the
curious minds, which are unreached.
Another convincing
justification on why community radio should broadcast news? The public service
media is designed (may be written or unwritten) to promote the development
activities of the ruling government. On the other hand, to survive in the most
competitive era, the private media has to depend on advertisers or to the
political parties may be in rule or in opposition. Therefore, the agenda
setting role of both public and private media depends on what the establishment
wants to inform or the advertisers or industrialists want to inform keeping in
line with their motives. But, community radio believes to be run by a community
and the community will decide what information should be helpful for the
overall development of the community.
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Dutta, A. (2015, January 31). News Through Community Radio. Community Communications. https://www.comcomm.org/2015/01/news-through-community-radio.html
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APA
Dutta, A. (2015, January 31). News Through Community Radio. Community Communications. https://www.comcomm.org/2015/01/news-through-community-radio.html
MLA
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