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Recognising that Community Radio is an ideal means of fostering freedom of expression and information, the development of culture, the freedom to form and confront opinions and active participation in local life; noting that different cultures and traditions lead to a diversity of forms of Community Radio; this Charter identifies objectives which community radio station share and should strive to achieve. Community Radio Stations:

1. Promote the right to communicate, assist the free flow of information and opinions, encourage creative expression and contribute to the democratic process and a pluralist society.
2. Provide access to training, production, and distribution facilities; encourage local
   creative talent and foster local traditions; and provide programmes for the benefit,
   entertainment, education, and development of their listeners.
3. Seek to have their ownership representative of local geographically recognisable communities or of communities of common interest.
4. Are editorially independent of government, commercial and religious institutions, and political parties in determining their programme policy.
5. Provide a right of access to minority and marginalised groups and promote and protect cultural and linguistic diversity.
6. Seek to honestly inform their listeners on the basis of information drawn from a diversity of sources and provide a right of reply to any person or organisation subject to serious misrepresentation.
7. Are established as organisations, which are not run with a view to profit and ensure their independence by being financed from a variety of sources.
8. Recognise and respect the contribution of volunteers, recognise the right of paid workers to join trade unions and provide satisfactory working conditions for both.
9. Operate management, programming and employment practices which oppose discrimination, and which are open and accountable to all supporters, staff, and volunteers.
10. Foster exchange between community radio broadcasters using communications to develop greater understanding in support of peace, tolerance, democracy, and development

I took a trip across 22 stations in Ireland and here is the July 15th playlist.

July 15th 2024 Community Radio Playlist

I am testing some code that builds podcasts or news reels automatically. Each item has an expiry date – so old listings will not appear past the expiry date. Also the tool can randomise or date order or priority order the items as often as required during the day. An intro and outro are at either end of the media.

now residing at https://events.radio.ie/

some web and mobile visual players for some streaming dublin radio. click on the images to try them out.

On the Adamant Nicolas Philibert

France, Japan | 109 min | 2022

Synopsis:

The Adamant is a unique day care centre: it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. The film invites us to board it and meet the patients and caregivers who invent its life day to day.

IFI noon 25/02/2024

The W Cinema – Westport 8:40pm 27/02/2024

Happy World Radio Day 2024. This site as been offline for a few weeks with the teaser that it returns today. What was the tease? Where is the big reveal?

There isn’t a big reveal as once intended. A career move into television in January has had me busy in a new job so for now here is what is new.

1. As of today Feb 13th 2024 UPˢᵗʳᵉᵃᵐ pain free radio archiving is now FREE for Community Radio in Ireland. Any paid plans will become free plans and any stations not yet using UPˢᵗʳᵉᵃᵐ can jump on for free via an email to reception@radio.ie
2. A convergence APP for Irish is media slowly being built see /signal for an early peek. It brings together 260+ Irish radio streams, 300+TV news channels via newsvendor.com, the latest 15 Irish Radio uploads to Mixcloud, a randomised TV playlist, the latest 50 Irish Podcast drops.
3. I have begun blogging about media over at wavelinks.substack.com
4. radio dot.ie /tune continues as a http/s player and radio.ie/t is now 100% https
5. Older Radio Lab projects that have been much ignored are mothballed. Access to theses and papers available on request.
6. New radio shows on Canary Islands and Dublin radio have begun. Links to follow.

That’s about it except, well, this project now gets serious about being a labour of love. Expect more great things less often 🙂 “take your passion – and make it happen” Irene Cara.

Broadcasts from Bankstown to Sydney, New South Wales Australia. 92.1 FM
Streaming Online 24/7 2MFM is online at http://www.2mfm.org.au/
Recording from stream 14/05/2023

Established in 1995. The Muslim Community Radio is a multicultural and multilingual Islamic radio station. It broadcasts to the Sydney community in general while incorporating elements that target the Islamic community of Sydney. It first transmitted twenty-four hours a day during the month of Ramadan of 1995 and has continued to broadcast during every month of Ramadan and Dhul-hijja (Pilgrimage month). In addition, in 1997 Muslim Community Radio was broadcasting on every Friday of that year until the introduction of the temporary broadcast community license (TBCL). Muslim Community Radio currently broadcasts 24 hours 365 days a year covering all Islamic events. Because Arabic/Lebanese is, according to statistics, the major ethnic language communicated among the Muslims in Sydney, understandably the radio programs are primarily transmitted in the Arabic and English languages with spots of other community languages, evolving in pace with demand.

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In January 2021 the Future of Media Commission sought submissions for interested people to shape the future landscape of media in Ireland and from Irish people aboard. 750 submissions were made which is an outstanding number of connections made.

Myself and John Walsh made a submission which calls for the opening up of spectrum to new uses to breathe some life into the grassroots of radio.

Here is a copy of our submission A new community media model from the ground up.

In conclusion we call for the following action points to be addressed as they are essential to a new grassroots public media model:

1. Foster and grow micro and niche services for underserved groups.
2. Deregulate spectrum to grow diversity of use.
3. Incentivise use of unused spectrum for hyper-local media.
4. Establish and fund a national network of community media hubs.
5. Develop core-funding model for such community media and hubs.
6. Abolish broadcasting levy for community and institutional stations.
7. Streamline licencing process to facilitate alternative media uses.
8. Scrap Section 71 fees for content licences.
9. Roll out media literacy training to deliver ready to use practical media skills.