Comments on: Davos Newbies Home http://www.davosnewbies.com/2004/03/22/davos-newbies-home/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Evan Henshaw http://www.davosnewbies.com/2004/03/22/davos-newbies-home/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Evan Henshaw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/?p=1077#comment-264 There's actually been quite a long standing movement in India to demand community radio rights. There's a mailinglist where a lot of the organizing is being discussed here: <a href="http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india" rel="nofollow">http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india</a> Last weekend there was a conference in Manipal titled: Rediscovering Radio They had a number of speakers on a variety of subjects related to community radio in India. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yrqfp" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/yrqfp</a> The big problem I found with advocating community radio in India is that it's treated as a terrorism issue. So instead of the rest of the world where you loose you equipment when you run an unlicensed radio station, in India you get 10 years in jail. This has meant nobody has gone about and setup community radio stations without licenses unless they are located in very rural areas. In France, the USA, Brazil, and other places people have used unlicensed radio as a political tool to open up the airwaves. But in India there is no conception of how radio could be really be used. This means nobody wants to risk 10 years in jail to make a community radio licensing an issue of public debate. One option in India is to use short and medium wave radio. There are relatively many more SW and MW receivers in India than other parts of the world because it was the only way to get BBC programming, especially in rural areas. The disadvantage of SW & MW is that you can't broadcast in all the local languages. There’s actually been quite a long standing movement in India to demand community radio rights. There’s a mailinglist where a lot of the organizing is being discussed here:
http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india

Last weekend there was a conference in Manipal titled: Rediscovering Radio
They had a number of speakers on a variety of subjects related to community radio in India.

http://tinyurl.com/yrqfp

The big problem I found with advocating community radio in India is that it’s treated as a terrorism issue. So instead of the rest of the world where you loose you equipment when you run an unlicensed radio station, in India you get 10 years in jail. This has meant nobody has gone about and setup community radio stations without licenses unless they are located in very rural areas. In France, the USA, Brazil, and other places people have used unlicensed radio as a political tool to open up the airwaves. But in India there is no conception of how radio could be really be used. This means nobody wants to risk 10 years in jail to make a community radio licensing an issue of public debate.

One option in India is to use short and medium wave radio. There are relatively many more SW and MW receivers in India than other parts of the world because it was the only way to get BBC programming, especially in rural areas. The disadvantage of SW & MW is that you can’t broadcast in all the local languages.

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