Factors Influencing the Adoption of HD Radio™ by Local Radio Station Managers

Doctor Mandica Manja Kovačević (1929–2011) was a professor at several Croatian teacher training colleges (Čakovec, Kutina, and Gospić) and the author of three books and some 60 papers in various journals. She moderated a weekly ten-minute program for the local radio station in Gospić in the first decade of the 21st century. Thus, more than 300 radio contributions were produced, of which seventy were published in the book “Life on the Highest Wave” (Gospić, 2010). By researching and presenting phonographic recordings not included in the aforementioned book, this paper focused on the topics dealing with the affairs from the Croatian society in the first decade of the 21 century serving as an original sample by means of which Professor Kovačević had presented her personal views and attitudes resulting from life experience and local and traditional expectations. Professor Kovečević’s original reviews have attracted the attention of a large number of listeners because they have been able to find answers to questions that are usually contemplated by a contemporary man torn apart between existential challenges and spiritual search.

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E-media in development: Combining multiple e-media types (originally published in February 2003)

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v0i0.1781 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Robin Koert

Keyword(s):

Rural Development ◽

Electronic Media ◽

Radio Station ◽

Case Material ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

Traffic Pattern ◽

Different Types ◽

Media Types ◽

The Impact ◽

Local Radio

This paper, on electronic media's potential contribution to rural development in less-industrialized countries, builds on the content of two earlier First Monday papers: "The Impact of Democratic Deficits on Electronic Media in Rural Development" (April 2002) and "Providing Content and Facilitating Social Change: Electronic Media in Rural Development" (February 2000). The former provides a theoretical argumentation on the influence of democratic deficits on the role of E-media in rural development, supported by case material, whereas the latter presents case material from Peru on how the different types of E-media contribute to rural development in that country. This paper also introduced the "information traffic pattern (ITP)" and "media richness" concepts. The February 2000 paper ends with the conclusion that combinations of different types of E-media are more likely to be successful in contributing to rural development than the isolated use of a single E-media type. Recently, this approach of combining multiple E-media types has been labeled "mixing media" in a paper by Bruce Girard (2002) and the approach is also being used for the "Radio Reed Flute" initiative in Afghanistan, started by Bruce Girard and Jo van der Spek. In this paper, the case for the multiple E-media approach will be made from the perspective of a need for multiple information traffic patterns, a concept introduced and elaborated in the two previous First Monday papers. Based on this theoretical argumentation, the paper will provide suggestions for ways forward for the use of E-media in rural development in less-industrialized countries. Two of the main suggestions are to use existing local radio station as "anchors" in prospective E-media projects in rural development and to establish partnerships between local radio stations and local development NGOs, the latter aimed at stimulating the collection and dissemination of locally generated information.

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Have you a local radio station?

Representation ◽

10.1080/00344896908656462 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 9 (35) ◽

pp. 4-4

Keyword(s):

Radio Station ◽

Local Radio

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Cooperating with the local radio station

The Southern Speech Journal ◽

10.1080/10417944909371118 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 138-142

Author(s):

Harold Weiss

Keyword(s):

Radio Station ◽

Local Radio

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Entertainment Content Required on Black-Focused Radio

Race and Radio ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496822062.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 105-114

Author(s):

Bala J. Baptiste

Keyword(s):

New Orleans ◽

Public Service ◽

Martin Luther ◽

Radio Station ◽

Broadcast News ◽

Service Programs ◽

Martin Luther King ◽

Local Radio

Black leadership's penchant for non-violence during the Movement was taken seriously in New Orleans. Despite riots in 125 cities after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, New Orleans blacks did not engage in widespread civil disturbances. Announcers began playing gospel and hymns and referred to King as the gentle lamb, which contributed to near tranquillity that coalesced with black leadership’s non-violent rhetoric. The emergence of black-focused radio in New Orleans was similar to Birmingham. Later, In 1980, Inter Urban Broadcasting, the first black interest to own a local radio station, arrived, but white owned businesses, such as computer and electronics companies, refused to purchase time from Inter Urban which had acquired WYLD. A white station, WQUE, entered the market and captured black listenership. It broadcast strictly entertainment compared to WYLD which also broadcast news and public service programs. WYLD lost the battle. Blacks tuned into radio to be entertained.

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The Pioneer Mixed a “Batch of ‘Congrats’”

Race and Radio ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496822062.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 79-92

Author(s):

Bala J. Baptiste

Keyword(s):

Radio Station ◽

Black Music ◽

Black Paper ◽

Racially Mixed ◽

Hillbilly Music ◽

Local Radio

In 1949, after WJMR fired Vernon Winslow, the black paper the Louisiana Weekly hired him as an advertising agent. He also wrote a nightlife gossip column called “Boogie-beat Jive.” In 1950 WMRY was the first local radio station to revamp its programming from white-oriented to exclusively black content. In his column, Winslow critiqued the on-air presentations of the new black DJs whom WMRY hired. He chimed about the good and the bad. George "Tex" Stephens was one of them whom he criticized and later praised. In 1957 WMRY phased out and morphed into WYLD. A year later, WBOK emerged as the city's first racially mixed station playing hillbilly music along with popular black music.

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