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Radio Stations

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Radio stations are broadcasting facilities that transmit audio content, including music, news, and talk shows, via radio waves to a specific geographic area. They operate on designated frequencies and can be either AM (Amplitude Modulation) or FM (Frequency Modulation), serving as platforms for communication, entertainment, and information dissemination.
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Radio stations are broadcasting facilities that transmit audio content, including music, news, and talk shows, via radio waves to a specific geographic area. They operate on designated frequencies and can be either AM (Amplitude Modulation) or FM (Frequency Modulation), serving as platforms for communication, entertainment, and information dissemination.

Key research themes

1. How has community radio shaped grassroots participation and local development internationally?

This theme explores the historical evolution, socio-political roles, and contemporary practices of community radio stations globally, emphasizing their function as participatory and democratizing media platforms that empower marginalized groups and foster communication by and for communities. It investigates the institutional frameworks, activism origins, and the diversity of community radio forms shaped by local contexts, highlighting their relevance in contested media ecosystems despite prevailing private and public media dominance.

Key finding: Focusing on Latin America, the paper foregrounds community radio as a counterhegemonic communication practice emerging from subaltern groups that contest dominant private media models. It highlights a tripartite media... Read more
Key finding: This review examines Karnataka's community radio stations as drivers of local development, cultural preservation, and social empowerment. It documents that stations such as Antarwani promote educational, agricultural, and... Read more
Key finding: The study highlights the potential of community online radio to serve as an effective medium for disseminating localized information and facilitating knowledge transfer within Nigerian tertiary institutions. It finds that... Read more

2. How do radio stations adapt technologically and strategically to retain relevance amid digital media shifts?

This theme investigates the integration of new technologies like podcasting, hybrid radio, and digital broadcasting by traditional radio stations globally, particularly focusing on speech-based stations. It examines the strategic responses to audience fragmentations and the incorporation of on-demand audio consumption formats that challenge the conventional synchronous, one-to-many broadcasting model, emphasizing these adaptations as critical to maintaining listener engagement, especially among younger demographics.

Key finding: The paper documents how prominent Spanish speech-based radio stations have evolved by incorporating podcasting and on-demand distribution, transitioning from live-only synchronous broadcasts to offering content tailored for... Read more
Key finding: This study identifies the decline in young people's traditional radio consumption in Spain resulting from radio’s lack of interactivity and on-demand features, contrasting it with podcast growth driven by digital natives. It... Read more
Key finding: The research describes hybrid radio as a convergence technology combining FM/DAB+ and Internet protocols, enabling non-linear listening experiences such as on-demand playback, podcasting, and supplementary multimedia content.... Read more

3. What are the cultural and communicative significances of radio as a medium historically and artistically?

This theme focuses on radio’s historical stature, cultural functions, and artistic potential beyond mere mass communication utility. It probes radio’s roles in shaping public opinion globally, its place within mass media hierarchies, its social and political influence particularly in transitional societies, and its unique capacity for radio art—a creative form using radiophonic language to create aesthetic experiences. It also investigates gender dynamics, feminist perspectives, and radio’s evolving narrative in cultural scholarship.

Key finding: This work highlights radio’s diminishing visibility in media discourse despite its wide ubiquity and continued social, political, and economic significance worldwide. It documents radio’s instrumental role in historic... Read more
Key finding: Introducing radio art as an aesthetic discipline, this study models how listener involvement, art reception, and positive emotional responses predict willingness to engage with radio art works. Employing empirical data from... Read more
Key finding: This article situates radio studies within feminist and cultural scholarship, emphasizing radio’s gendered history wherein female listeners and producers played pivotal though often marginalized roles. It reviews radio’s... Read more
Key finding: Analyzing the Voice of the Arabs radio station as a political communication instrument in mid-twentieth-century Arab nationalism, this paper argues the station’s oppositional mode functioning through agency, subjectivity, and... Read more
Key finding: Based on oral histories, this work illustrates Radio Luxembourg’s cultural impact in socialist Czechoslovakia as a key conduit of Western music, English language learning, and a symbol of “forbidden fruit” allure. It... Read more

All papers in Radio Stations

This article explores issues which arise from the use of campus radio stations as a tool for Open and Distance Learning in Nigeria. As population and demand for education continued to increase, Nigeria turned to ODL which in turn adopted... more
Broadcasting more educating and language-reviving contents are ways radio stations can help revitalize the use of the English language in the Hunan province of China. The challenges faced in communicating in English in Chinese radio... more
Colombia los medios de comunicación, más específicamente las cadenas radiales nacionales más importantes, no se han quedado atrás y han optado por unirse desde hace unos años a twitter, incursionando sobre la marcha. Las cuentas de... more
A lo largo del presente artículo nos centraremos en analizar la participación activa de la congresista republicana Edith Nourse Rogers en los diferentes medios de comunicación de su época. Una figura pública de su calado era de suponer, y... more
More than 60 years after the first community radio stations began operating in Latin America, and under the sociotechnical transformations that characterise the present time, it is both relevant and urgent to question these alternative... more
As a prominent Arabic-language transnational service, the Voice of the Arabs radio station was the product of unforgiving modernity in an era that carries reverberations to the present day and it occupied a place that had distinct... more
This study, the role of community online radio in information management and knowledge transfer in Nigerian tertiary institutions: a study of Al-Hikmah University FM radio (Proposed) examined the challenges and prospects of setting up a... more
This review paper explores the impact and contributions of community radio stations in Karnataka, India. Since the inception of community radio in India, these stations have evolved to address various local needs and issues. Karnataka,... more
Radio Luxembourg was undoubtedly a phenomenon that deserves attention for several reasons. For young people in socialist Czechoslovakia, it was one of the sources of "Western" music-so much more attractive that the offer of Czechoslovak... more
The factors that have contributed to the position of RAC 1, a radio station belonging to the Godó Group, as the audience leader in Catalonia, despite being the most recent channel available, are defined and explained. This detailed... more
This article examines the topic of radio station valuation. A review of the key academic literature on station valuation is presented, followed by a discussion of the various models used by media industry brokers to systematically... more
Acción Cultural Popular fue una institución católica de largo alcance que ofreció educación a la población campesina y que buscó mejorar sus condiciones de vida en una época violenta, con alta migración rural-urbana y una creciente... more
Passive coherent location (PCL) radar systems that use single FM radio channel signal as illuminator of opportunity have reasonable Doppler resolution, but suffer from limited range resolution due to low modulation bandwidth and high... more
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Twitter en Colombia: ¿Cómo lo están usando las cadenas radiales para informar? Resumen En Colombia los medios de comunicación, más específicamente las cadenas radiales nacionales más importantes, no se han quedado atrás y han optado por... more
Resumen Durante los últimos años han surgido numerosas emisoras desde diferentes lugares de la geografía española destinadas al público latino. Unos medios que dan respuesta a las necesidades de los inmigrantes en cuanto se refiere a... more
Com o considerável desenvolvimento tecnológico e a convergência dos meios de comunicação, os hábitos de consumo de mídia sonora foram alterados, fazendo com que profissionais da área se reinventassem. Visando o futuro da mídia... more
El trabajo explica las mediaciones que intervienen en la construcción de la agenda mediática de tres emisoras radiales de diferente alcance de Santiago de Cuba y su relación con la agenda pública de la provincia durante el año 2016. Para... more
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and one of the largest in terms of size, Church (1979). It came into existence i 1914 when the British colonialists amalgamated the then Northern and Southern protectorates. The Northern... more
This report intends to summarize the activities carried out during the Radio Nova internship and pretends to analyze the audio recordings (known vulgarly in journalism as RMs) used in the Radio Nova news. With the notion that Radio Nova... more
This work is the output of a multidisciplinary team each with a different area of expertise: Organisation of the project team ?What If! ?What If! Digital (formerly Fathom Partners) is a strategic innovation firm, focusing on health,... more
Determining the value of a privately held firms confound those in academia as well as practitioners in the fields of appraisal, forensic accounting, and law. Divergent parties to the transfer look to apply the valuation technique to serve... more
The paper examines meaning extension in communication among male youths in some northern states such as Katsina, Kano, Kaduna and Zamfara. The variables under study comprise of words, phrases and sentences in English and Hausa languages.... more
Peter Carrodus was a major community figure as manager of 2CA commercial radio station and a decisive player in the formation and survival of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. Socially he will be remembered by old-time residents for his... more
Biography of an Australian Radio Station manager and classical musical music enthusiast.
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