Wednesday June 08, 2005

Another milestone will be scored in the PNG media sector when the PNG Bible
Church launches its Wantok Light Radio station on Short Wave on Saturday.

The radio station has already been broadcasting on the FM band in Port
Moresby for the last year or so.

The SW transmission will be launched at Kaupena mission station in Southern
Highlands province - the "birth place" of this church in PNG, set up by
American missionaries about 40 years ago.

The SW launch now takes the Port Moresby-based radio station to the rest of
the country and overseas.

Its pre-launch transmission on SW in the last few days has been received
loud and clear around the country, judging from those of us listening from
Madang.

Over two years ago, no one thought a community-funded radio station would be
launched on the Short Wave.

This approach to radio broadcasting, popularly called "community
broadcasting" where the community backs a station was until then an alien
concept. Community radio broadcasting is popular in many parts of the world.

Several groups, particularly churches, have to date set up radio stations
through this concept.

Broadly, community radio stations are owned, funded and managed by members
of a community.

People in the concerned community raise funds for the upkeep of a radio
station. They may use limited advertising in their broadcasts, often as
"sponsors" for a very short time as specified under their license.

A community broadcast station are set up to serve groups of people deemed as
not being served by the mainstream broadcasting stations or media.

They serve a niche in a community and often have agendas to pursue and
promote. They are subjective and uphold the values of the sponsoring group
and the community they seek to serve.

Universally, community broadcast stations are non-profit entities
established to serve a community interests where the mainstream media
overlooks or cannot reach.

They are often stations with limited broadcast capacity but this varies from
country to country. They can be stations with limited broadcast hours to
24-hour outfits.

Community radio stations are independent from the government. The community
financing is perhaps one of its main attributes that distinguishes itself
from the other radio broadcast sectors.

Though they are predominantly self-funding, in some cases in the world,
programming is funded through government grants and also some of the
stations that are starting up get start-up funds from their governments.

This funding option can be looked at in this country since those in
government and elsewhere in society recognise the superiority of radio over
other forms of media in PNG.

There can be trade-off arrangement for this where government messages can be
broadcast in exchange for the start-up funds.

Imagine in this country so rich in culture and language, where each
community would set up its own community radio station on common grounds
such as a language community radio station would act as a catalyst for
improvement in lifestyles of people and maintenance of language, traditional
songs and folklore on the airwaves. The community radio station would act as
a living archive of a community.

This would be in a situation where a well-meaning government went out of its
way to support their establishment along common terms such as language.

With government support, community radio stations could be the answer too
much of the information dissemination and communication needs of the
government, churches and other interested groups.

http://www.thenational.com.pg/0608/column3.htm

Mike Terry wrote:

Wednesday June 08, 2005

Another milestone will be scored in the PNG media sector when the PNG Bible
Church launches its Wantok Light Radio station on Short Wave on Saturday.

The radio station has already been broadcasting on the FM band in Port
Moresby for the last year or so.

The SW transmission will be launched at Kaupena mission station in Southern
Highlands province - the "birth place" of this church in PNG, set up by
American missionaries about 40 years ago.

The SW launch now takes the Port Moresby-based radio station to the rest of
the country and overseas.

Its pre-launch transmission on SW in the last few days has been received
loud and clear around the country, judging from those of us listening from
Madang.

Over two years ago, no one thought a community-funded radio station would be
launched on the Short Wave.

This approach to radio broadcasting, popularly called "community
broadcasting" where the community backs a station was until then an alien
concept. Community radio broadcasting is popular in many parts of the world.

Several groups, particularly churches, have to date set up radio stations
through this concept.

Broadly, community radio stations are owned, funded and managed by members
of a community.

People in the concerned community raise funds for the upkeep of a radio
station. They may use limited advertising in their broadcasts, often as
"sponsors" for a very short time as specified under their license.

A community broadcast station are set up to serve groups of people deemed as
not being served by the mainstream broadcasting stations or media.

They serve a niche in a community and often have agendas to pursue and
promote. They are subjective and uphold the values of the sponsoring group
and the community they seek to serve.

Universally, community broadcast stations are non-profit entities
established to serve a community interests where the mainstream media
overlooks or cannot reach.

They are often stations with limited broadcast capacity but this varies from
country to country. They can be stations with limited broadcast hours to
24-hour outfits.

Community radio stations are independent from the government. The community
financing is perhaps one of its main attributes that distinguishes itself
from the other radio broadcast sectors.

Though they are predominantly self-funding, in some cases in the world,
programming is funded through government grants and also some of the
stations that are starting up get start-up funds from their governments.

This funding option can be looked at in this country since those in
government and elsewhere in society recognise the superiority of radio over
other forms of media in PNG.

There can be trade-off arrangement for this where government messages can be
broadcast in exchange for the start-up funds.

Imagine in this country so rich in culture and language, where each
community would set up its own community radio station on common grounds
such as a language community radio station would act as a catalyst for
improvement in lifestyles of people and maintenance of language, traditional
songs and folklore on the airwaves. The community radio station would act as
a living archive of a community.

This would be in a situation where a well-meaning government went out of its
way to support their establishment along common terms such as language.

With government support, community radio stations could be the answer too
much of the information dissemination and communication needs of the
government, churches and other interested groups.

http://www.thenational.com.pg/0608/column3.htm

Hmmmmm... guess this is more proof that Mike Terry pays no attention at all?

They have been on the air all ready, have they not? Sure sounded like it here.

7120 kHz

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
Wednesday June 08, 2005

Another milestone will be scored in the PNG media sector when the PNG
Bible
Church launches its Wantok Light Radio station on Short Wave on Saturday.

........just what we need, even more bible-thumpers on shortwave

stagger-pee wrote:

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
Wednesday June 08, 2005

Another milestone will be scored in the PNG media sector when the PNG
Bible
Church launches its Wantok Light Radio station on Short Wave on Saturday.

.......just what we need, even more bible-thumpers on shortwave

Perhaps, but it still makes for a nice DX target. Far to many of you 'tard boys
bitch about stations going off the air, and when a new one comes on you
complain.

Continue to tote.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:



stagger-pee wrote:

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
Wednesday June 08, 2005

Another milestone will be scored in the PNG media sector when the PNG
Bible
Church launches its Wantok Light Radio station on Short Wave on Saturday.

.......just what we need, even more bible-thumpers on shortwave

Perhaps, but it still makes for a nice DX target. Far to many of you 'tard boys
bitch about stations going off the air, and when a new one comes on you
complain.

Continue to tote.

I should be able to hear it fairly easily here in California if I'm ever
up around 1000-1100 UTC (the middle of the night here).


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running dogg wrote:

dxAce wrote:



stagger-pee wrote:

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
Wednesday June 08, 2005

Another milestone will be scored in the PNG media sector when the PNG
Bible
Church launches its Wantok Light Radio station on Short Wave on Saturday.

.......just what we need, even more bible-thumpers on shortwave

Perhaps, but it still makes for a nice DX target. Far to many of you 'tard boys
bitch about stations going off the air, and when a new one comes on you
complain.

Continue to tote.

I should be able to hear it fairly easily here in California if I'm ever
up around 1000-1100 UTC (the middle of the night here).

I generally get my best reception of the PNG's and Indo's here just prior to, and the
hour or so after sunrise.

dxAce
Michigan
USA