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Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media - Volume 9, Issue 2, 2011
Volume 9, Issue 2, 2011
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Community broadcasting and mental health: The role of local radio and television in enhancing emotional and social well-being
Authors: MICHAEL MEADOWS and KERRIE FOXWELLThis article sets out to explore the role of community broadcasting in enhancing the emotional and social well-being of its diverse audiences. We argue that communitybased broadcasting is having a positive impact on the state of mental health of its audiences. We make our argument by reviewing audience research data from a study of the Australian community broadcasting sector conducted between 2004 and 2007. The findings reveal that the community radio and Indigenous television sectors are making a significant contribution to managing community mental health by empowering audiences to better understand and control issues that impact on their emotional and social well-being. This suggests opportunities for health care agencies to consider the potential of enlisting community broadcasting in future mental health campaigns. The study reinforces a claim that mainstream media need to be more aware of a growing dissatisfaction with their inability to 'connect' with their diverse audiences on such issues. It also provides further evidence for community radio as a key cultural resource that meets its expected outcomes in contributing to social gain.
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Zimbabwe’s community radio ‘initiatives’: Promoting alternative media in a restrictive legislative environment
More LessUnlike most nations in southern Africa, Zimbabwe has not seen the expansion in community radio stations that has been characteristic of the region from the 1990s. A number of community radio initiatives (CRIs) were formed after the 2001 Zimbabwean Broadcasting Services Act (BSA), but no licences were ever issued in any broadcasting sector. This article argues that CRIs reflected the wider political crises of the years since 2000. Even after the Global Political Agreement of 15 September 2008, no community radio station has been licensed. Taking two case studies of such initiatives - Community Radio Harare and Radio Dialogue of Bulawayo - the article investigates how they have survived the Zimbabwean political crisis. It examines the way they lobbied for the right to broadcast and how they produced and distributed programming, and utilized so-called 'roadshows' in an environment where alternative radio stations are viewed with suspicion by ZANU PF.
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US college radio, the ‘New British Invasion’ and media alterity
By NICK RUBINThe mid-1980s discursive emergence of 'college radio' as a discrete broadcast sector in the United States was founded on college stations' embrace of UK punk during the late 1970s. While commercial rock stations rejected punk on aesthetic and affective grounds, college DJs continued to support punk's offshoots into the early 1980s, nurturing an oppositional sensibility regarding commercial broadcasting and mainstream tastes. The stunning debut of cable television channel MTV in 1981 introduced a potential crisis in self-consciously oppositional college radio communities, because as part of its programming, MTV promoted UK post-punk and 'new music' bands that had previously received most of their airplay from college stations. MTV's success sparked a parallel programming trend on commercial radio, which journalists labelled the 'New British Invasion'. The various responses to MTV and the 'New British Invasion' on the part of US college radio practitioners extended and consolidated the ethos that college radio embodied in its embrace of punk, helping to cohere the sector as a cultural imaginary. These responses also suggest that 'alternative media' theorists might profitably include college radio in the future development of alternative media models.
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Radio promotion history: Crafting image and loyalty via philatelic ephemera
More LessWhen radio was in its golden age, so was the hobby of stamp collecting. This article explored the way that philatelic ephemera were used in the promotion of US radio between the 1920s and 1960s. Philatelic programmes used the natural affinity of their audience for collectibles as an opportunity to provide cheap premium prizes and to create offers connected with programme sponsors. Non-philatelic programmes, stations and a manufacturer also took advantage of opportunities to use philatelic items to promote customer and listener loyalty and growth. Promotions represented efforts to enhance listenership, build station image and reach out to new audiences.
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REVIEWS
Authors: John Tebbutt and Matthew LinfootCALLING ALL CARS; RADIO DRAGNETS AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF POLICING, KATHLEEN BATTLES (2010) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 282 pp., ISBN 978-0-8166-4913-6 (hbk), $67.50 ISBN 978-0-8166-4914-3 (pbk), $22.50
SOUNDS OF YOUR LIFE - THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT RADIO IN THE UK, TONY STOLLER (2010) New Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, 350 pp., ISBN 978-0861966905 (hbk), £22.50
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 21 (2023)
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Volume 20 (2022)
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Volume 19 (2021)
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Volume 18 (2020)
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Volume 17 (2019)
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Volume 16 (2018)
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Volume 15 (2017)
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Volume 14 (2016)
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Volume 13 (2015)
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Volume 12 (2014)
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Volume 11 (2013)
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Volume 10 (2012)
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Volume 9 (2011)
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Volume 8 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 7 (2009)
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Volume 6 (2008 - 2009)
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Volume 5 (2007 - 2008)
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Volume 4 (2007)
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Volume 3 (2005)
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Volume 2 (2004)
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Volume 1 (2003 - 2004)