RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

11) Lewis ( 1984) provides a useful way to conceptualize community media as : "expanding the services of mass media; challenging mass media systems and their implications; offering alternatives to mass media systems; and doing things which mass media cannot do (p . 1). 12) some programs occasionally could have a political slant to them as well, as typified by the appearance on WNYC by Aunt Holly JacKson and f amily , musicians and union organizers who sang of the plight of striKing coal miners in KentucKy (Vurchenco, 1970). However, the stations that allowed such discussions by common people were гаге . 13) д more successful college community station is WYSO , Yellow Springs , Ohio, which mixes locally-produced news and public aff airs programs with music , arts and women J s programs, and a daily call-in show of current events (Barlow , 1987). 14 ) These problems аге certainly not unipue to the United States. The largest cities of Europe, for example, аге also heterogeneous collections of groups from a variety of religious , ethnic , racial, and political, and national bacKgrounds. There аге also class distinctions between people of ostensibly the same groupings which can create further distinctions between communities . 15 ) Hein anđ his colleagues аге now trying to replicate their experience with Baha'i Radio with station WLGI in Hemingway , South Carolina . ' 6 ) One outstanding example of a successf ul local radio project that functions primarily through the languages of the indigenous peoples in the surrounding агеаз is the Liberia Rural Communication NetworK (LRCN ) . Неге , local people have been recruited and hired to produce programs reflecting local languages and cultures , which аге the majority of program content. Programs in the national language , English constitute only 20 рег cent of the broadcast đay (EaKin, 1987). 17 ) Of the 14 languages native to Liberia , LRCN broadcasts in 10, plus English f ог the national new programming among its three stations (EaKin , 1987).

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