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Today's Topics:
1. Retuning All India Radio (Jaisakthivel)
2. Glenn Hauser logs October 3, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:47:30 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Retuning All India Radio
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We need to collectively reimagine All India Radio as an independent public
service broadcaster.
Pradip Ninan Thomas ([email protected]) is with the Centre for
Communication and Social Change, University of Queensland, Australia.
As All India Radio (AIR) enters its platinum jubilee, it is worth reflecting on
this national institution of inestimable worth that has fallen on bad times. In
spite of the great changes in the Indian radio landscape, AIR remains a force
to reckon with, given its 376 stations, its unrivalled coverage of more than
90% of the country, and broadcasts in 23 languages and 146 dialects.
Nonetheless, AIR remains a deeply paradoxical institution. On the one hand, it
offers a truly national service that, to borrow from the old Heineken ad,
reaches parts of the country other broadcasters don?t. AIR?s sound archives ?
consisting of both north and south Indian classical music and the spoken word ?
offer a unique memory of music traditions and styles and a repository of the
political history of the nation, including recordings by Tagore, Subhash
Chandra Bose, Gandhi, Jinnah and other national figures. The digitisation of
these archives at a central level as well as in the regional centres is an
ongoing project. On 25 March 2013, for instance, AIR?s Akashvani Sangeet
released five CDs of the Hindustani vocalist Pt Mallikarjun Mansur, from its
11,000-hour repository of music that includes 1,000 hours of Carnatic music.
AIR has extensive experience of rural and farm broadcasting, with programmes on
land and water conservation, sustainable agriculture, biotechnology, integrated
pest management for crops, crop insurance schemes, environment protection and
disaster management, which have benefited scores of farmers in the country. AIR
has played a critical role during natural disasters, most recently during the
floods in Uttarakhand. Both AIR?s FM radio Rainbow and the station in Najibabad
helped relay information that was vital to the rescue operations. It played a
similar role during the cyclone in Odisha and the tsunami that struck the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, both in 1999, as well as in the Indian Ocean
tsunami of December 2004, and the Kosi floods in Bihar in 2008. Also noteworthy
is its example as a community broadcaster ? consider, for example, Radio Ujjas,
which is broadcast from the Bhuj and Rajkot AIR stations ? and the commercially
successful Vividh
Bharati. All this does suggest that there is much that AIR offers.
On the other hand, however, on the very same day that AIR released the music
CDs of Pt Mallikarjun Mansur, the president of the Congress Party, Sonia
Gandhi, announced the establishment of an AIR studio in Rae Bareli, her
parliamentary constituency. The relationship between electoral politics and
broadcasting in India is, of course, not new, given that during the dark days
of the Emergency, AIR became a propaganda mouthpiece for Indira Gandhi, earning
the sobriquet ?All Indira Radio?, and a decade later, her son, Rajiv Gandhi,
commanded the over-hasty expansion of broadcasting ahead of the 1989 elections.
The late V C Shukla, who was union minister of information and broadcasting
during the Emergency, once banned Kishore Kumar songs from being played on AIR
and Doordarshan because he had refused to sing at a Congress event in Mumbai.
The fact that Rajiv Gandhi heard of the assassination of his mother from a
report by the BBC correspondent Satish
Jacob, a full five hours before it was announced on AIR, is a reflection of
the fact that politics and political expediency have shaped the deve?lopment of
public broadcasting in the country.
The paradox that AIR currently is does it no favour. Although that is no excuse
to retire the service or starve it out of existence, it needs to become an
independent and genuine public service broadcaster. To be sure, AIR does
possess the capacity to broadcast content that counts and that is different
from the hyper-commercialised music and talk shows that have become the norm
for radio in contemporary India. Surely, rather than letting it implode, we do
need to collectively reimagine AIR as an independent public service broadcaster
suitable for 21st century India ? and hope that our broadcasting mandarins
understand that a relevant and responsive public service broadcaster ultimately
makes for good politics.
Source::?http://www.epw.in/
Vol - XLVIII No. 40, October 05, 2013?|
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 3, 2013
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** BRAZIL [and non]. 9645.42, Oct 3 at 0536, het upon Vatican Radio mass show,
often strong but only poor tonight, slightly above A-flat, indicating frequency
variant for R. Bandeirantes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Oct 3 at 1832 checking for a second day of R.
Africa activity, only a JBA signal so I can`t tell whether it`s this or
Philippines; but NIGERIA DRM 15115-15125 is still audible, and presumed OMAN AM
on 15140, so suspect it`s not EqG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Oct 3 at 1244, still no signal from AFN (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1689, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, Oct 3 at 1230 UT, full ID from Sinaloa with FM XHREV, slogan
Los 40 Principales, also en grupo Ch?vez, Radio K (?). Cant?:
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 900, Oct 3 at 1226 UT, time check for 6:26, mentions Cuauht?moc,
which correlates as the only XE in the UT -6 zone, Cant?:
900 XEDT Hits FM + FM 98.3 Cd. Cuauht?moc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11675, Oct 3 at 0535, RNZI is in AM instead of usual DRM here!
Also AM on // 11725 during sports/news, which is slightly stronger. Own website
does not favor us with power and azimuth details, but HFCC registrations show
11675 DRM at 25 kW on double (either/or?) azimuth of 35/325 degrees; 11725 with
only 50 kW at same double azimuth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 7320, Oct 3 at 0539, music on fair signal with flutter, R.
Rossii ID, i.e. from Magadan (``Okhotsk`` as HFCC-registered), getting into
winter propagation mode this early from 59+ degrees north. Also poor at 1246
during jazz song in English? Weaker than 7325 CRI Japanese music (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11815, Oct 3 at 1300 REE news via COSTA RICA, no CCI from JAPAN
for a change with higher paths suppressed; 1303 starting `Espa?oles en la Mar`,
maritime show with usual Morse-code logo. Used to be at 1305. GRA blog reports
that REE is increasing its news output by 65%, with at least headlines every
half hour and some longer news blox later such as at 1400 (UT?). But the 1300
news has really been contracted; must also mean overall reduxion in non-news
musical and feature programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 12025, Oct 3 at 0532-0534, VOA report on government shutdown,
by Dan Robinson, White House correspondent, with his usual air of urgency, who
has not been shut down (while Kim Andrew Elliott says he has been; suspending
new Radiograms). HFCC shows 12025 VOA English via 100 kW BOTSWANA at 04-07, but
shifting from 350 to 10 degrees at 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1689,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1689: completed in time for first airing on WTWW-1
9479, Thursday Oct 3 at 2100; later: UT Fri 0329v on WWRB 5050; UT Sat 0200v on
Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Sat 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB;
Sat 1500 on WRMI 9955; Sat 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW-1 5830
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 130, Issue 4
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