[cma-l] New publication: What’s On Air. A study of the content of community-run FM radios in Nepal

[Salvatore Scifo]

---Apologies for cross-posting---*

What’s On Air. A study of the content of community-run FM radios in Nepal
by Binod Bhattarai, with Ghanendra Ojha*

Published by the Community Radio Support Center (CRSC)/ Nepal Forum of 
Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ)
with Support from Free Voice (The Netherlands), 2010

Full publication available at http://www.nefej.org/pdf/what_on_air.pdf


Abstract from the foreword, by Raghu Mainali

Community radio is here to stay in Nepal. We in the radio movement talk 
about serving communities, giving voice to their concerns and talking 
with communities about things that can help to improve livelihoods. We 
now have over 130 community radios all of which say they are here to do 
all of the above. As believers in the empowering role that community 
radio can play in the lives of people, the Community Radio Support 
Centre (CRSC)/Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) decided 
it was time to look at what they have been broadcasting. We hope this 
effort can be the essential first step towards getting the wide network 
of radios we have to start focusing on the soul of radio – the content.

The CRSC/NEFEJ has prepared and published a set of indicators for 
assessing community radios in collaboration with the stakeholders 
themselves. They all agree that content should be one of the most 
important basis for assessing whether the radio serves its community or 
not. This study was designed by CRSC to try to get a broad idea of the 
content of community radio in general. We hope it will be the beginning 
of interest and efforts to generate and disseminate knowledge on the A 
word on content content. That will serve as important feedback to 
stations and help them innovate, re-position and re-focus programming 
for better serving their communities. The study attempts to look into 
the nature of programs produced and broadcast by selected community 
radio stations in Nepal. It did not specifically look into scripts 
and/or news texts or the type of music and entertainment on air. The 
assessment was based on interpreting what was on their weekly program 
grids and interviews with people running the stations. If only a step 
towards quality programming on community radio, CRSC believes it is 
doing its part for the simple reason that the journey has begun.



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