{"id":47,"date":"2008-12-12T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-12-12T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:11:27","slug":"wind-powered-community-radio-in-southern-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/wind-powered-community-radio-in-southern-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind powered community radio in Southern Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-49\" title=\"su-map\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/su-map-279x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/su-map-279x300.gif 279w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/su-map.gif 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>This week&#8217;s <a title=\"Living On Earth Transcript\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/shows\/segments.htm?programID=08-P13-00049&amp;segmentID=6\">Living on Earth<\/a> Broadcast featured an interview with\u00a0<a title=\"Internews website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internews.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internews<\/a> program director Deborah Ensor about bringing solar and wind energy to the region to power a new radio station in Southern Sudan.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Living On Earth Transcript\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/shows\/segments.htm?programID=08-P13-00049&amp;segmentID=6\">This story<\/a> is a wonderful example of how radio empowers and promotes community relations in parts of the world that lack a communication infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click <a title=\"MP3 of LOE broadcast\" href=\"http:\/\/stream.loe.org\/audio\/081205\/081205radio.mp3\">here<\/a> to download mp3 of full story (click <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/081205radio.mp3\">here<\/a> if link is broken)&#8211;courtesy of Living On Earth<\/li>\n<li>Living On Earth <a title=\"Living On Earth Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/\">website<\/a> and <a title=\"Living on Earth Transcript\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/shows\/shows.htm?programID=08-P13-00049#feature6\">transcript of show<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Living on Earth Broadcast featured an interview with\u00a0Internews program director Deborah Ensor about bringing solar and wind energy to the region to power a new radio station in Southern Sudan. This story is a wonderful example of how radio empowers and promotes community relations in parts of the world that lack a communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,16,20,18,19],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-community","tag-living-on-earth","tag-npr","tag-radio","tag-sudan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11305,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/radio-tamazuj-adds-shortwave-service-for-south-sudan\/","url_meta":{"origin":47,"position":0},"title":"Radio Tamazuj adds shortwave service for South Sudan","author":"Thomas","date":"November 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source:\u00a0Radio Tamazuj via Andy Sennitt) The independent broadcaster Radio Tamazuj has launched a new shortwave frequency to help expand its listenership in South Sudan. 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Kudos to Eye Media for their Shortwave Radio efforts in South Sudan to complement and extend their reach beyond local FM radio. And I must add, kudos to the United States for their part in helping to fund the venture. 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