TV and Radio Stations for Rural Communities

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TV and Radio Stations for Rural Communities

• By Linh Luong

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Average Worldwide Construction Cost for Radio
Station and Radio Transmission System

• _ Full power radio station cost more than
  500,000.
• _500,000 is of course the price for a top of the
  line radio transmission with all the possible
  equipments that a radio transmission can have.
• _This price does not include the cost of the
  control room, which could possibly cost up to
  150,000.

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Alternative Solution for Rural Communities of
Developing Countries

• _The alternate solution for rural communities and
  developing countries is low power radio
  transmission.
• _The average worldwide cost for a low power radio
  transmitter is around 41,700. This price is
  again the price for a top of the line low power
  radio transmitter.
• _The cost for a low power radio station is around
  23,600.
• _The prices for the station and the transmitter
  can be much lower if different types of material
  are used to build them.
• _With the used of cheaper materials for the
  shelter and the removal of uneccessary expensive
  equipments, the price for the transmission can be
  reduced down to less than 25,000
• _The radio station is the same case, if lesser
  materials are used to build it, the cost can be
  significantly reduced.

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TV Station

• _The average cost to operate TV station and have
  it transmits signal to the entire rural regions
  or countries is varied depend on the types of
  transmission used. Two popular types of
  transmission are PAL (phase alteration line) and
  NTSC.
• _Both systems had relatively similar operating
  system. PAL give better resolution, but it also
  has some other problems that the NTSC system
  dont have.
• _Overall the PAL and the NTSC systems are the
  same in most respects.
• _The total NTSC transmission equipments cost
  varied from 950,000 to 1,437,000. The master
  control of the transmission cost around 182,000.

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How Can Television be a Reality

• _Television can easily be a reality in many
  developing countries despite it high cost.
• _Since television can be broadcast over a large
  radius, a television station can be build by the
  country, and not individual rural communities.
• _This mean that all people in the country in
  theory can have access to a TV channels
  broadcasts by their government.

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Politics and the Stations

• _TV stations and Radio stations are censored due
  to the fact that most developing countries are
  under a dictatorship or some other forms of a
  dictatorship government.
• _TV stations and Radios stations are built by the
  state as propaganda tools.
• _Sometimes they are not even allowed to be built
  due to political reasons such a fearing the
  spread of unwanted ideology.
• _Some politicians are actually encouraging the
  creation of more stations to connect the country
  together, to get the people in the country to be
  aware of the situation.
• _This could actually lead to the building of more
  radio station in the country.
• _In the end, politic can both hindered or helped
  the advance of radio and TV in a country.

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Another viewpoint for rural communities

• Free Radio Berkley 1,000 station
• Internet Radio
• Japan Community radio
• Australia Community Radio
• Africa Community radio

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And then theres Internet radio

• 104 pm - Billy Bragg Wilco - Airline to
  Heaven1259 pm - Crash Test Dummies - God
  Shuffled His Feet1254 pm - Depeche Mode -
  Blasphemous Rumours1248 pm - Massive Attack -
  Angel1244 pm - Waterboys - Fisherman's
  Blues1241 pm - Eels - Novocaine for the
  Soul1236 pm - Gooding - For Love1232 pm -
  Miles Davis - The Pan Piper1228 pm - Cake -
  Frank Sinatra1224 pm - Supergrass - Can't Get
  Up1221 pm - Snow Patrol - Set The Fire To The
  Third Bar (w/ Martha Wainright)1218 pm - Blue
  Oyster Cult - Then Came The Last Days Of
  May1214 pm - Of Montreal - Cato As A Pun1207
  pm - OSI - Once1203 pm - Frou Frou -
  Flicks1159 am - New Order - Regret1156 am -
  Cracker - Fluffy Lucy1153 am - Tom Petty - Time
  To Move On

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The Community Broadcasting Foundation is an
independent non-profit funding agency that
solicits and distributes funds for the
maintenance and development of community
broadcasting in Australia including specialist
services for Ethnic, Indigenous and Radio for the
Print Handicapped audiences
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Rural Radio Africa's Internet
Farm radio broadcasters call for greater
collaboration Radio broadcasts provide a forum
for members of rural communities, especially
women, to express their opinions and share
experiences. Here, women in southern Mali
participate in a rural radio programme.
Rural and community radio in Africa currently
reach a far wider audience than the Internet or
television. Photo FAO/S.Oumar
Most community radio stations, such as this one
in Mali, are under-funded and the majority of
workers in the sector are untrained volunteers.
Photo FAO/S.Oumar