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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Radio stations"”.
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The audience promotion of ten major market talk and all-news radio stations
… State University. Dept. of Television and Radio, 1968
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The Media in Society: Religious Radio Stations, Socio-Religious Discourse and National Cohesion in Tanzania
… on the one hand the broadcasting activities of Radio Maria Tanzania (owned by a Christian organisation) and Radio Imaan (owned by a Muslim community) while on the other hand identifying the meanings which audiences construct in relation to national cohesion in Tanzania. Specifically, the study …
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An exploratory study of new media adoption for participatory programming in southwest Nigeria’s radio stations
… broadcast journalists were drawn from 18 FM radio stations in four southwest states of Nigeria using multi-stage purposive and snowballing techniques. Another set of 18 broadcast journalists of varied background were interviewed in-situ. Factorial analyses confirm the significance of …
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Trill maintenance and replacement in Chichewa : a study on newsreaders' speech from three radio stations in Malawi
… users of Chichewa. Data was collected from three radio stations in both formal and informal settings. Each radio station has different types of audience, from top government officials, to businessmen, and to the youth. The formal setting is news bulletin reading, while interviews made up a more …
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the sustainability of community radio stations: the case of Vhembe FM and Makhado FM
The study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the viability of community media in South Africa. Focusing on Vhembe FM and Makhado FM in Limpopo's Vhembe District, it draws on media development and sustainability theories to analyse the negative impacts the pandemic has had on these …
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Examining community media sustainability in the digital age : a study of community radio stations in the North-West province of South Africa
… on ways in which local media firms (community radio in South Africa) can achieve sustainability amidst the prevailing digital challenges. Hence, the knowledge gap this study intends to fill. Current studies indicate a good amount of scholarly work on media sustainability focusing on large media …
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Comparative Study of Church and Non-Governmental Radio Stations in Zambia-A case study of radio explorers and radio Maria in Eastern Province
… is a comparative case study of the church-run, Radio Maria and non church-run, Radio Explorers in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The work compares and contrasts the (1) content and management of the stations, (2) the process of selection of programmes and content development, and (3) …
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The effectiveness of Community Radio Stations in bridging the information gap in Rural Communities: The case of Radio Chikuni in Monze District of Zambia
… especially in the rural areas. Community radio is one such media which has been used in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa with a strong assumption that it has demolished information barriers in rural communities, allowing for effective participation of the rural population in …
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The Effects of Performance Appraisal System on Employees’ Performance in Tanzanian Community Radios: A Case of Selected Radios in Dar es Salaam
… on employees’ performance in the community radios. It specifically explores the employees’ awareness on appraisal system, knowledge of the appraisal system and performance appraisal management that leads to effective employees’ performance in community radios. This study was descriptive in …
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Circumstances beyond our control : Canadian radio program schedule evolution during the 1930's
… and government agencies to control and develop radio broadcasting in the 1930s such factors as the abilities, strengths and weaknesses of the private broadcasters as well as the availability of various types and forms of programming governed the direction and development of the program schedule …
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POLICY MAKING AND PUBLIC SPHERE: AN ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY RADIO IN THAILAND (1997-2021)
Radio broadcasting policies and practices in Thailand have long been affected by political uncertainties, starved of financial support and therefore left with little technical progression. This research examines Thailand’s approach to public service broadcasting (PSB) through a theoretical …
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The performative nature of talk on commercial music radio in South Africa : the cases of 5FM, Metro FM and 94.5KFM
Commercial Music Radio is one of the largest radio formats in the country, attracting millions of listeners per week, yet little academic attention has been afforded to its components such as music, talk and accompanying sounds that garner listeners. This thesis pays particular emphasis on …
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The role of networks in political economy
… However, we show that the presence of radio stations compensates for this bias. This effect is driven by municipalities that have radio stations connected to a regional network rather than by the presence of local radio stations. In addition, the effect of network-connected radio …
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The Voice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago
… research has been done on the role that radio stations in the northern United States played in spreading information related to the Civil Rights Movement. Owned and operated by Chess Records label owners Leonard and Phil Chess, the Chicago radio station WVON 1450 AM, "The Voice of the …
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Marginal formations and the production of culture: The case of college music
… disseminated over the air waves of college radio stations and/or produced in college environments--emerged onto the national (and international) scene; it earned its own trade paper, the College Music Journal, its own chart in Rolling Stone, and it became the subject of music industry …
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Design and implementation of real-time cognitive dynamic spectrum radio, targeting the FM radio band with PHYDYAS FS-FBMC
… exponentially increasing. Allocated bands in the Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum are commonly presented as being nearly at capacity but in reality, they are often under-utilised. New shared spectrum regulations, combined with Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technologies and Software Defined Radio …
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Radio convergence: young people's radio listening habits in Cape Town - a comparative study
… of this study is to explore young people's radio listening habits in a time of radio convergence in South Africa. This study explores how the radio listening practices of youth studying and living in a township, for example Khayelitsha, differ from the practices of those who attend school in …
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The politics of ethnic minority radio in South Africa
The discourse on the implications of ethnicised radio, for example, in the Nigerian ethnic conflicts, the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and in the Kenyan ethnic violence of 2008 have brought more focus on challenges involved with policing ethnic media and managing ethnic relations in contemporary …
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Engaging voices or talking to air? A study of alternative and community radio audience in the digital era
… the implementation of the Local Community Radio Act of 2010, which marks the largest expansion of community radio stations in U.S. history. The act responds to the decade-long community radio movement in which many civilian groups advocated that community radio—an “old-fashioned” yet …
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The evolution of British Asian radio in England: 1960-2004
… research examines the evolution of British Asian radio in England from 1960 to 2004. During the post-war period an Asian community started migrating to Britain to seek employment as a result of the industrial labour shortage. The BBC and the independent local radio sector tried to cater to this …
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