Setting up your own Community Radio

I. Planning, Production

II. Public address system setup

III. Technical setup

IV. Programming

V. Radyo Pinaglabanan

Planning • Step 1: Know your audience

• Step 2: Formulate objectives

• Step 3: Determine and allocate resources – Manpower

– Materials

– Money

– Minutes

• Step 4: Select the appropriate format

• Step 5: Identify your priority messages

* From the very beginning, plan with your partner people’s or mass organization

Production

• Step 1: Gather radio materials, equipment

• Step 2: Write the rundown sheet and/or script

• Step 3: Audition talents and prepare music and sound effects

• Step 4: Recording segments (support statements, interviews, MOS, etc.)

Public address system setup

horn

amplifier

DVD player

microphones

paired wire

dividing unit/driver

speakers

Setting up your own PA radio Unit Specifications Price

Horn Size: #16 or #20 100 watts, 16 Ohms

P 550/P450

Dividing unit or driver

100 watts P 480

Player Any player (depending on the optical media or file storage to be used – cd, dvd, data disc, usb, etc.)

P1,000 to P3,000

Amplifier 90 watts For public address; not integrated amplifier

P1,800 to P3,000

Speaker For (mixed) audio out Any speaker , karaoke

P 500 to P 1,000

Wire Paired wire (red and black); for outdoor

Microphone Anything that works on your amplifier P 400 to P2,000

Technical notes for the PA setup

• It is advisable that your amplifier have lower wattage than your horn’s driver

• Integrated amplifier cannot be used for public address setup

• Paired wire – thicker is better; also find ways to hide it from the sun, rain and rats

• If you intend to mix music, plugs and talk, better to have a mixer or more DVD players

• Provide an extension cord for the PA setup

Technical notes for the PA setup

• If you want your radio to reach more people/homes, set up more horns. You will also need more wires for each additional horn.

Produce your own programs

• Community radio programs are for public service or for the interests of the community.

• Different program formats: – Talk – News – a pure news program will deliver news of the

day/hour – Music – Documentary – Drama – Magazine – combination of talk, interviews, news,

music, live music, radio dramas, etc.

Program segments • Divide the hour/program in different segments. • These are done live:

– Talk – better to center on ONE topic – Interviews – News reporting

• Canned/pre-recorded segments: – Station ID, program ID – Interviews – Support statements – Music – Radio play, drama – Plugs

• Essentials for every program: station ID, program ID, greetings, host introduction to self, other plugs commercials or PSAs

Rundown sheet

Item No. Contents Length

1 Standard introduction Station ID, program ID

01:00

2 Host greetings 03:00

3 Newscast: local and national news 07:00

4 Plugs Time check

02:00

5 Feature: Talk/interview on Comprehensive RH bill 20:00

6 Comments and questions from listeners 05:00

7 Plugs Time check

02:00

8 Feature: conclude/recap feature of the day 05:00

9 Segment: market price check 10:00

10 Goodbyes and Program and Station ID 03:00

Program : Usapang Kababaihan Time of Airing : 5-6pm

Radyo Pinaglabanan

• Protest radio of Brgy. Corazon de Jesus residents resisting demolition

• Community pooled their own resources and a home is volunteered to become the home of the radio

• Timeslots – 4-6pm (timeslot selection based on the time most number of people are in their homes or in SAMANA’s converging area)

• Organizations in the community host different programs

• A technical director from the community is trained

• Aired from January 21-25

• Stopped airing after the January 25 violent demolition when the equipment went missing

• Will be set up again this March

• Programming

– Gabriela CDJ – Usapang Kababaihan

– Anakbayan CDJ

– Sa Piling ni Corazon

Anakbayan CDJ radio program

Gabriela CDJ’s Usapang Kababaihan