FM Radio Stations Research Articles

Commercial Format FM Radio Stations for the Young in Croatia from the Perspective of the Education of Journalists

Commercial Format FM Radio Stations for the Young in Croatia from the Perspective of the Education of Journalists

Measuring Popularity of Nogoum FM Radio Station among Teenagers in Egypt

This Paper discusses the amount of popularity Nogoum FM in Egypt as it always claimed to be No 1 ranked Radio station in Egypt by returning to listener’s numbers. To make a good analysis to the future and plans on Nogoum FM the paper investigated the Popularity especially between the young ages (Teenagers) which may have different interests and opinions regarding the radio stations and radio industry as a whole in Egypt. Nogoum FM is the first private radio station since being founded in 2003, and ever since is always said to be the first radio station in terms of listening among people in Egypt after Quran Kareem radio station. What was observed that after the appearance of new radio stations like Mix FM, NRJ and new tech music applications like Anghami and Spotify, Nogoum FM was not on the same solid ground that it was during the previous years despite its efforts to be on track by releasing an application and introducing new generation presenters to give the Radio station the right dosage of youth with balancing its famous presenters, whom it was relied on for a long time. The research studied and took into consideration variables like age, listeners numbers, time and social standard as having major effect on the nowadays popularity of the No1 radio private radio station in Egypt. Tested through questionnaire with sample of targeted age. Literature revealed other variables that had a negative effect on the popularity of Nogoum FM like technology and political stability, yet data collected, and results assured that part of the new variables like Technology effects the new generation, while eliminated other variable like political stability. Finally, paper concluded that Nogoum FM has to give technology the biggest amount of its attention as its most important variable that can affect rest of the variable and will be the main variable for the popularity and the continuity of making Nogoum FM continue to dominate and lead the industry.

Impact of Vernacular Radio Regulatory Policies on Peacebuilding During 2007, 2012, and 2017 Conflicts in Presidential Elections in Kisumu County, Kenya

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the Ramogi Vernacular FM Radio Station and peacebuilding interventions during conflicts arising from presidential elections in 2007, 2012, and 2017. Specifically, the study aimed to assess the impact of Vernacular Radio regulatory editorial policies on peacebuilding. The study was guided by Agenda setting theory. The study used a mixed method (triangulation) research design. Purposive, Stratified, and Simple random sampling techniques were used to select the sample size of 384 respondents. However, 345 (89.8%) respondents from the sample were injected into the study whereby 104 were Head teachers of Primary Schools; 44 principals of secondary schools; 7 Sub-County Administrators; 67 Market Chairpersons; 38 supermarket Proprietors: 56 Bodaboda (Motor Cycle) Operators; 25 Bodaboda Sacco Chairpersons in Kisumu County and 4 Media Persons returned questionnaires and a ration of 1:10 was interviewed. Data for the study was collected by the use of questionnaires, interview schedules, and document analysis. Pearson’s r for the reliability of piloted data was +0.89 for educationists and +0.82 for business fraternity which indicated good internal consistency. Quantitative data was analysed through descriptive and inferential statistics and presented using tables and pie charts. Qualitative data was thematically analysed using NVIVO and presented through thematic narratives, which involved the identification and interpretation of patterns and themes whereby inferential statistics were used to gauge influence. The finding showed that the media outlets freely broadcast to residents. Further, social actors’ utterances were not monitored and this was a recipe for chaotic outcomes. This research recommended that there is a need for policy formulation to fill gaps in media policies to facilitate freedom of the press, need for political accountability, and need to adapt inter-cultural dialogue to enhance social cohesion.

The multi-level factors influencing the development and impact of COVID-19 response in a university community: A review of the experiences of Kabale University in southwestern Uganda.

The index case of COVID-19 in Uganda was reported on 20th March 2020. The first confirmed imported case of COVID-19 in Kigezi sub- region South Western Uganda, where Kabale University is located, was reported on April 24th 2020. On August 2nd 2020 the first COVID-19 community case was recorded in the Kigezi Sub-region. Right from the early days of the threat of COVID-19 spread in Uganda, Kabale University put in place multiple mechanisms and interventions to contain the pandemic including: A COVID-19 Study Group: set up in February 2020 to study the disease, carry out risk assessment and advise the University on how to be prepared to handle cases if the disease were to reach the environment of the University. A multidisciplinary Kabale University COVID-19 Task Force: set up on 30th March 2020 to advise the University on preparations to ensure safe continuity of business at the university during a possible outbreak of COVID-2019 by designing and implementing appropriate infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), for the University community. COVID-19 Knowledge Attitudes & Practice (KAP) Study –to inform planning for safe maintenance of business continuity at the university in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak. Following a national lockdown, the purpose of the study was to guide development of necessary measures to be undertaken to minimize the spread of COVID-19 among students, staff and visitors when re-opening of the University became imminent. The study revealed high levels of knowledge (84% correct rate of response); an overall positive attitude (77% positive rate of response); but only moderate COVID-19 preventive practices (68.8% correct rate of preventive practice). Knowledge was higher among male students (p=0.033); students older than 20 years (p=0.000); and students taking health related courses such as Medicine or Nursing (p=0.019). Attitudes about COVID-19 were better among female students (p=0.034); and in students older than 20 years (p=0.000). Age and sex are significant predictors of COVID-19 prevention practices (p=0.001, p=0.000 respectively). These findings informed the need for: Effective behavioral change communication: to alert the university and the neighboring communities about COVID-19. The strategies to be used to achieve this were; Internal memos to the university community through e-mail, social media and written notices placed in strategic areas, Radio talk shows through several FM radio stations in Kabale town and, Branded health literacy print-outs in form of posters, leaflets and brochures. Promotion of good respiratory and oral and hand hygiene – to discourage; haphazard spitting, ejecting or smearing nasal mucus on public places, sneezing or coughing in public without protection, and promotion of frequent handwashing. Random COVID-19 testing – One such test in June 2021 revealed positivity rate of 17.8% Development of the Kabale University COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures. The order of personal prevention priorities emphasized in the SOPs were; face masking, hand washing with running water and soap or disinfectant, hand sanitizing with 70% alcohol and, keeping a physical distance of at least 2 meters from one another etc. With vaccination, this order has now been revised to give top priority to vaccination, although we still equally emphasize maintenance of the previous strategies.

Implementation of an FM Radio Station to Facilitate Remote Education in the District of Cojata

Implementation of an FM Radio Station to Facilitate Remote Education in the District of Cojata

Promotion of Effective COVID-19 Response Interventions among Health Workforce in Virika Hospital, Kabarole District-Uganda

Introduction: The Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV2 virus was first identified and reported in 2019 by the people’s Republic of China in Wuhan and declared a pandemic disease in march 2020. Since then, the disease has continued to spread to the rest of the communities in the world and Kabarole district in Uganda has not been spared. The need to promote effective COVID-19 Response Interventions through a capacity-building project of health workforce in Kabarole and Uganda in general was ostensible. The effective COVID-19 interventions strengthened among Virika Hospital Health workforce were, enhanced risk communication by health workers and Community engagements through Social mobilisation. In this paper, we share how a capacity building project for health workforce at Virika Hospital, Kabarole district Uganda, contributed to the reduction of community COVID-19 transmission and death as a result of increased levels of awareness of the risk by Health workers and community. Methods: This was a hospital-based project initiated by the Hospital nursing officer and the administration soliciting technical support from Kabarole District Surveillance Health office. It targeted hospital technical and support staff. At community, the Village Health Team and Village chairpersons were targeted and drawn from 5 randomly selected parishes. Risk communication practice was done using five FM Radio stations and King TV station in Fort Portal City. Results: A health workforce capacity of 60 staff was built, 92% technical and 8% support staff. Skills in Risk communication were acquired by the health workforce through Radio presentations that followed 3 workshop sessions at the hospital. Sessions on infection prevention and control were dominated by demonstrations and return demonstrations on hand hygiene and use of PPEs in COVID-19 prevention. Through dialogue meetings with the VHTs and community leaders, the community was empowered on early detection and reporting of COVID-19 Alert simulations. Despite the enhanced health workforce capacity however, inadequate PPEs was noted as a limiting factor amidst good workforce risk response competencies built. Conclusion: The enhanced health workforce capacity with effective Response interventions like risk communication, Infection Prevention and Control and community engagement, contributed to reduction in community Covid-19 transmission In Kabarole District. This could ensure a long term and sustained response capacity to any other emerging infections in the district.

Deep learning for aircraft classification from VHF radar signatures

Radio sources in the Very High Frequency (VHF) band can be seized as opportunity donors in a passive radar configuration such as FM radio stations and VHF omnidirectional range (VOR). A full-wave simulation of three size classes of aeroplanes shows that their bistatic radar cross-section (RCS) are statistically comparable, albeit perform differently in time while the plane is flying. This difference can be exploited to recognize the size of the aeroplanes with respect to these classes. Measurements confirm this possible differentiation between the aeroplanes within the same class. Encouraging initial results were obtained using convolutional or recurrent neural networks to classify aircraft classes, combining simulated bistatic RCS results and real trajectories (collected from automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast data).

Rapid Prototyping and Validation of FS-FBMC Dynamic Spectrum Radio With Simulink and ZynqSDR

This article presents the research carried out in developing and targeting a novel real-time Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) Frequency Spread Filter Bank Multicarrier (FS-FBMC) transmitter prototype to programmable ‘ZynqSDR’ Software Defined Radio (SDR) hardware, and introduces a series of experiments used to validate the design’s ‘cognitive’ DSA capabilities. This transmitter is a proof of concept, that uses DSA techniques to enable Secondary Users (SUs) to access the band traditionally used for FM Radio broadcasting (88-108 MHz), and establish data communication channels in vacant parts of the FM Radio Primary User (PU) spectrum using a multicarrier modulation scheme with a Non Contiguous (NC) channel mask. Once implemented on the hardware, the transmitter is subjected to various FM Radio environments sampled from around Central Scotland, and it is demonstrated that it can dynamically adapt its NC transmitter mask in real time to protect the FM Radio signals it detects. A video is presented of this dynamic on-hardware spectral reconfiguration, and the reader is encouraged to view the video to appreciate the responsiveness of the design. An investigation into potential FBMC guardband sizes is carried out, with initial findings indicating a guardband of 200 kHz (either side of an FM Radio station) is required in order to prevent interference with the PUs. This article also demonstrates the capabilities of the MATLAB and Simulink Model Based Design Zynq-Based Radio workflow, and provides a case study and reference design that we feel other researchers working in this field can benefit from.

LANGUAGE PATTERN AND CONTENT VARIATION IN PRIVATE HINDI RADIO FMS: A STUDY

At a time when private FM radio stations are switching over to alternate patterns of language, it becomes imperative for academia to decipher what are the patterns and how much potential they have in keeping the audience involved. The paper is based on the language used by a radio presenter in contemporary time and that the success of messages is not altogether dependent of a standard and established language which has been practised earlier generation of a radio presenter. Alternate language patterns use nowadays in radio sometimes leave a deep impression on listeners and society in general. In view of these facts, the present study attempts to understand the alternate language pattern of private FM radio stations in India and that too in Hindi centric belt. In this study, three different private radio stations have been taken for the study and one programme of each station has been analyzed in detail. These three radio stations are from New Delhi, Chandigarh, and Karnal. The study draws the attention of the academia and radio industry on context to the perception that despite the popular standard style of presentation and language, there are presenters who are breaking the monotony of standard language and it's rules and is more concern with whether the audience will be able to extract meaning and comprehend it or not. The study explores the possibilities of further study to analyze the correlation between the decoding of the messages by the listeners and their impact on public communication and its further impact on the culture as well.

The Underrepresentation of Women on Commercial FM-Radio Stations in the Top 20 Markets

ABSTRACT A content analysis of weekday shifts at commercial FM radio stations in the top 20 markets in the United States was conducted. Findings show women are underrepresented in nearly every daypart. Overall, women make up approximately one-third of both morning drive talent and on-air talent overall. However, women constitute only 14.58% of all marquee/lead morning hosts. No women are heard on air during the week on 14% of stations sampled. Women are best represented on Adult Contemporary stations, and least represented at Rock, News/Talk, and Sports stations. Market size nor station ownership impacted air-talent gender.

Аналіз експлуатації діючих макетів комплексу спеціальних апаратних для підрозділів інформаційно-психологічних операцій

The article provides an analysis of the experimental exploitation of samples (operating models) of a complex of special hardware for the units of information and psychological operations in the area of anti-terrorist operation. The above characteristics classify complexes of special hardware according to certain indicators of remote information management of social and individual behavior of possible objects of information and psychological influence. Using complexes of special hardware units of information and psychological operations can formulate conditions of vulnerability of behavior of target audience, which reflects dependence of change of ideas and characterizes social behavior of possible target audience.The results of the analysis provided an opportunity to evaluate the information and psychological impact of the FM radio stations. The most significant deficiencies in the formation of TV reception interference were also identified, and as a consequence the need for the station to be located 3 km away from television broadcast receivers, provided that the partners of the station allow them to be effectively used in regions with no coverage at all.With the deterioration of weather conditions, it was revealed that there is no possibility of using a satellite receiver to receive content from a set of special hardware for the units of information and psychological operations. Suppression of broadcasting of television channels on the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions is one of the elements of protection of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from negative information and psychological influence.

ACCOUNTANTS AND ICT: BEYOND THE FIGURES FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE

This paper fosters the importance and need of international cooperation for use & promotion of Information and Communication Technologies for economic change in Nigeria among professional accountants. The concept of “Information Society” has made it imperative that no country can develop without involving and focusing on regional and global development perspectives. Collaboration has become the key word. When we talk of integrated socio-economic change, it takes into account many areas which can benefit from faster access and enhanced productivities by using ICT. Some case studies on use of ICT for different initiatives within Nigeria are reviewed and conclusions drawn on how it does support the socio-economic change and development, which may be similar and bear lessons for other developing countries. The supply side of ICTs has increased substantially in Kenya. For example, the number of mobile phone subscribers has more than tripled over the past five years, while FM radio stations have proliferated all over the country. There has been a lot of enthusiasm on internet usage with the landing of three undersea fibre optic cables in Lagos and their subsequent operationalization. Marxs of mobile phone service providers and communication equipment now dot both the rural and urban landscapes, and advertisements for some form of ICTs are common on billboards along major highways and roads.

What Inspires Us to Work: A Case of Motivation for Employees of Commercial FM Radio Stations in Tamale, Ghana

What Inspires Us to Work: A Case of Motivation for Employees of Commercial FM Radio Stations in Tamale, Ghana

Violent Trends in Hip-Hop Entertainment Journalism

While the prevalence and adverse effects of violence in hip-hop music and music videos have been studied extensively, hip-hop entertainment journalism, which reports on hip-hop news and events, has been largely unexplored. The purpose of this study was to examine violent trends in hip-hop journalism. We conducted a content analysis on a random sample of 970 news articles, 218 interview articles and the accompanying photographs from three hip-hop themed websites, and 56 radio interviews from hip-hop themed FM radio stations. Content was coded for type of violence, reality status, narrative sequence, and tone. The findings suggest that a significant portion of hip-hop journalism communications contain violence. More than half of all articles (52.3%; n = 663) contained violence. The prevalence of violence was higher for interview articles (73.4%, n = 218) than for news articles (45.9%, n = 445). The most common categories were violent metaphors, weapons, feuding (e.g., verbal aggression), and fighting. Almost 70% of radio interviews ( n = 37) contained at least one mention of violence and the most common types of violence were fighting/physical assault and feuding. Furthermore, the majority of violence for all articles and radio content were reported as real and were presented from the performer sequence. News articles depicted more consequences, whereas interview articles and radio interviews depicted more positive portrayals. Potential implications for youth exposure hip-hop journalism are discussed.

Transmission of track name information on the FM radio station using Radiotext

The article develops a method of transmitting artist names and their tracks on FM radio using the additional function Radiotext in the radio data system (RDS), considers its principle of operation and scope, shows an example of basic software settings, received from the air information with the artist's name track. The main functions of the RDS system are considered.

Deconstructing the Menace: Use of Fake Accent on Private Radio Stations in Nigeria

Media scholars, veteran broadcasters and the public have been expressing divergent concerns over the proliferation of fake accent on the Nigerian media waves, particularly on private radio stations. This phenomenon has been tagged a menace, creating false assimilations and strains on the semantic inclines of listeners particularly middle aged Nigerians and the older generation. This paper adopts the Uses and Gratification Theory to discuss the use of fake accent by analysing the presentation styles of On Air Personalities on Cool FM and Soundcity Radio Stations in the country. These Radio stations record very high number of listenership and findings revealed that many radio presenters equate the radio format of their stations to the reason they adopt the use of fake accent and that the ability to speak with a foreign accent is seen as a major criterion for getting a media job in Nigeria. The paper stresses the importance of speaking right through the adoption of features of connected speech as presented by notable media organizations and certified institutions saddled with the responsibility of teaching and training non-native speakers of the English Language. It concludes by encouraging media professionals to appreciate the uniqueness of the Nigerian media and cultural terrain.

Peran Program Rojhek Cingur Radio Nada Fm Dalam Melestarikan Budaya Lokal Di Sumenep Madura

The Rojhek Cingur program was one of the Nada FM radio broadcast programs produced and broadcasted for the first time in 2016. The program discussed the values ​​and local culture of Madura delivered by the people, which was then combined with the news of cultural issues developing across the people. This research used descriptive qualitative type. The main informant of the study were the broadcaster of the Rojhek Cingur program and the Nada FM radio station manager. The data collection technique of this research was carried out by interview, documentation and observation. While the data analysis technique consisted of data collection, data reduction and data presentation. The data validation used data triangulation. The result showed that the Rojhek Cingur program was one of the Nada FM radio programs discussed cultural values. The role of Rojhek Cingur Nada FM radio program were (1) Rojhek Cingur was a rehabilitation of Madura culture, (2) Rojhek Cingur was an education and cultural socialization, and (3) Rojhek Cingur was an unifying media. The pattern of communication between broadcaster and Rojhek Cingur program listeners were (1) Two-way communication patterns (two way traffic communicatios), and (2) Multi-directional communication patterns. 
 
 Keywords: Mass Communication, Rujak Cingur program, Local Culture.

Antenna Dilemmas: The Rise of an Indigenous-Language Low-Power Radio Station in Southern California

This article documents the legal and technological struggles of indigenous Mexican farmworkers (Mixtec and Zapotec) and a partner non-profit as they worked to apply for and build a low-power FM radio station in Oxnard, California. While there is much research on the development of U.S. community radio, scholarship rarely captures the experiences of low-income immigrant communities. With a focus on the FCC application, siting the antenna, and establishing Internet radio, this article highlights the limitations of new media (mobile phones and Internet radio) in bridging information gaps for low-income immigrants and argues that the need for FM radio persists.

Radio fuzzy graphs and assignment of frequency in radio stations

Based on the rules of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States, there is a problem when FM radio stations are situated nearby and transmit on channels when they are satisfactorily far separated. The difficulty of taking an optimal assignment of channels for a particular set of radio stations according to some given limitations on the distances among the stations as well as other factors are referred to as the Channel Assignment Problem. That problem has been designed mathematically in different ways. In this problem, it is managed by the introduction of radio k-colourings of graphs for assignment of frequency in radio stations. Depending on radio distances, radio fuzzy graphs have been defined. Complete radio fuzzy graphs, cyclic radio fuzzy graphs, and star radio fuzzy graphs are introduced, and several properties have been proved. Based on these theories, a survey on Kolkata (India) radio stations has been verified.

Uses and Abuses of FM Radios by Militants in Former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA), Pakistan

Abstract
 This research deals with the uses of abuses of FM radios in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the recently merged districts – former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) during the period ranging from 2003 to 2018. Radio is the most effective mean of mass communication. The rapid increase in FM radios and its cheap and easy operation was a source of attraction for many to disseminate their message. The use of FM radio has been on the rapid rise for the last nearly two decades, both for propaganda, political and commercial purposes. The government, private entities and some anti-state elements have made effective use of this media tool. This study analyses the role of government and non-state actors’ launched FM radio stations, which include both the legal stations and the pirated or illegal ones. The objectives and functions of Government run FM radio have been discussed. The use of the FM radio for promotion of Islamic teachings has also been thoroughly looked into. Its use by different militant outfits for propagating their message has also been covered. The commercial use of the tool by private entities has also been taken into account.