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Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media - Volume 6, Issue 1, 2009
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2009
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An analysis of the communication strategies of Spanish commercial music networks on the web: http://los40.com, http://los40principales.com, http://cadena100.es, http://europafm.es and http://kissfm.es
Authors: Avelino Amoedo, Mara del Pilar Martnez-Costa and Elsa MorenoIncreasing online activity and greater competition in the traditional broadcast market are changing the face of commercial music radio in Spain. Music networks have begun to provide supplementary content alongside their radio broadcasts in order to impart distinctiveness to their Internet presence. This study examines the websites of a number of Spanish music stations and reports on the content of those sites, their relationship to the traditional broadcast content, the types of services available and the methods used to encourage user interaction.
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Ten years of radio studies: The very idea
By Kate LaceyIn the 10 years since the Radio Studies Network was founded, a substantial body of studies has been produced to address the neglect of radio as an area of study. Yet, this focus of attention runs the risk of distancing radio from other media rather than transforming it into a mainstream area of study. This article seeks to map a way for radio studies to more readily engage with debates outside the discipline. It suggests that researchers in the field should capitalise on the present cultural turn to produce histories which anchor radio to everyday life and asks what radio has come to mean, 10 years on.
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Lend me your 84 million ears: Exploring a special radio event Shakespeare's King Lear on BBC World Service radio
More LessOn 15 October 2006, the BBC World Service claimed a historic first in the history of British radio Shakespeare: a live recording of King Lear at the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. The one-off show was subsequently broadcast to 42 million listeners around the world in December 2006, 400 years after the play was first performed on stage. The special nature of this radio theatre tells us much about the power of radio to determine cultural content on a global scale in the highly competitive mediascape of the twenty-first century. It also offers a focal point from which to consider Shakespeare as a cultural signifier across the history of British public service radio. Based on personal experience of the production process and interviews with production personnel, this article examines the different meanings attached to a programme that was promoted both as a national cultural event and an internationally significant adaptation of Shakespeare.
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From the Bogside to Namibia: The place of community broadcasting in post-conflict cultural reconstruction
By Paul MooreThis article has evolved from the author's continuing relationship, as a broadcaster and trainer, with two so-called community radio stations. One is a community station according to accepted definitions of the global community radio movement, and the other is an example of community radio in a public service environment. Both, the article argues, fail their communities through being too closely associated with the norms and practices that have shifted radio from the sphere of material to the sphere of broadcast, with all that such a move entails in terms of business practices, political intervention (ideological and authoritarian), censorship and essentialist notions of identity and consensus. Through an examination of the concept of community and the exploration of the two radio stations as case studies, the article argues that only radio as art can fully articulate the community voice and go some way to answering the questions as to who is speaking for whom, why and with what consequences?
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Reviews
Authors: Kate Lacey, Janey Gordon and Paul LongThe Human Voice: The Story Of A Remarkable Talent, Anne Karpf (2007) London: Bloomsbury, 399 pp., ISBN 9 7807 475 8537 4 (pbk), 20
From the Margins to the Cutting Edge: Community Media and Empowerment, Peter M. Lewis and Susan Jones (eds), (2006) Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 256 pp., ISBN 1572737181 (pbk), 23.95
The Peel Sessions: A Story of Teenage Dreams and One Man's Love of New Music, Ken Garner (2007) London, BBC Books, 352 pp., ISBN 978 18460 72826 (pbk), 19.99
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 21 (2023)
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Volume 20 (2022)
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Volume 19 (2021)
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Volume 18 (2020)
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Volume 17 (2019)
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Volume 16 (2018)
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Volume 15 (2017)
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Volume 14 (2016)
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Volume 13 (2015)
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Volume 12 (2014)
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Volume 11 (2013)
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Volume 10 (2012)
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Volume 9 (2011)
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Volume 8 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 7 (2009)
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Volume 6 (2008 - 2009)
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Volume 5 (2007 - 2008)
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Volume 4 (2007)
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Volume 3 (2005)
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Volume 2 (2004)
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Volume 1 (2003 - 2004)