{"id":6423,"date":"2013-05-03T21:01:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2013-05-03T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:01:35","slug":"all-africa-digital-did-not-kill-the-radio-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/all-africa-digital-did-not-kill-the-radio-star\/","title":{"rendered":"All Africa: Digital Did Not Kill the Radio Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChildSWRadioUganda\"<\/a>This is a brilliant article on the importance and relevance of radio by David Smith with All Africa<\/em>. \u00a0Below you’ll find some quotes, but it must be read in its entirety<\/a>:<\/p>\n

(Source:\u00a0All Africa<\/a>)<\/p>\n

By David Smith<\/p>\n

Radio threatens many of Africa’s big men.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thugs working for Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe have recently been confiscating and destroying receivers. Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki stopped issuing import licenses. Other iron-fisted rulers such as Swaziland’s King Mswati III and Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir rarely hand out frequencies, thus reducing the range of independent radio.<\/p>\n

The actions taken by these big men merely confirm radio’s supremacy in Africa. It may be old technology, but it is still relevant and appropriate. While not everybody owns a radio, most people have access to one.<\/p>\n

[…]A number of radio stations based outside of Zimbabwe’s borders rely on reports from in-country correspondents who use mobile phones and the internet, particularly social media, to send their reports to distant studios.<\/p>\n

[S]hort-wave has the advantage of sending signals over vast distances, irrespective of borders and local broadcasting restrictions.<\/p>\n

[…]Zimbabwe is not the only country where short-wave is used to bypass restrictive broadcast legislation. Pirate, or clandestine short-wave stations, often staffed by members of the target country’s diaspora, use high-frequency transmitters to send uncensored programming to dozens of countries, including Libya, Madagascar, Sudan, Western Sahara and all the states in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n

[…]Radios no longer simply transmit. They also receive. The convergence between these two communications devices has created a new community and international platform for lone, isolated voices.<\/p>\n

The list of radio stations that do not have an SMS or social network relationship with their listeners, despite their location, is getting increasingly shorter. Any station that fails to interact with its public risks going the way of the dodo.<\/p>\n

[…]Video and digital did not kill the radio star. Radio is stronger than ever in Africa, thanks largely to its ability to absorb and adapt to changing technology.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Thanks to author David Smith and All Africa.<\/p>\n

Just one more article filed under: Why Shortwave Radio<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a brilliant article on the importance and relevance of radio by David Smith with All Africa. \u00a0Below you’ll find some quotes, but it must be read in its entirety: (Source:\u00a0All Africa) By David Smith Radio threatens many of Africa’s big men. Thugs working for Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe have recently been confiscating and […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,869,3,297,43,1167],"tags":[1902,1903,84,136],"class_list":["post-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-clandestine","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-all-africa","tag-relevance-of-shortwave-radio","tag-why-shortwave-radio","tag-zimbabwe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1FB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9995,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/buying-a-bmw-in-south-africa-shortwave-radio-is-an-option\/","url_meta":{"origin":6423,"position":0},"title":"Buying a BMW in South Africa? 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