International Media Action – Page 2 – providing engineering services & policy training for groups starting radio stations

<a href="http://imarad.io/our-activities/international/">International Radio Projects </a>

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<a href="http://imarad.io/our-activities/media-capacity-building-and-policy-workshops/">Workshops & Classes</a>

<a href="http://imarad.io/our-activities/technical-trainings/">Technical Training</a>

International Radio Projects

We've done radio tech on 4 continents--whether it's building radio stations, engineering, troubleshooting, technical trainings on LPFM equipment, or repairing/upgrading antennae.

Non-Profit Engineering Services

We provide engineering services to non-profits, including building studios and installing transmitters, antennae, links, and other technology. We've built radio stations from 0.1 Watt to 10,000 Watts.

Workshops & Classes

We offer workshops and classes for schools, stations, and social movements on topics such as regulatory and congressional reform, station management, media policy, and the politics of expertise.

Technical Training

We offer trainings on anything you need to run a radio station--from programing, to fundraising, to technical troubleshooting.

Media Sanctuary Local News Magazine

Media Sanctuary is a non-profit community media center serving the Capitol Region of New York. When IMA last worked there, we helped launch WOOC-LP. The station now has a very successful nightly news magazine, produced by over 40 volunteers. Unlike many community radio stations, no one can get an individual show on WOOC. The way for volunteers to participate in the station is to help produce segments for the Hudson Mohawk News Magazine show, which airs 5 nights a week from 6 till 7PM, and repeats the next morning. This approach has dramatically strengthened the drive time (when the …

Radio Santa Ana On the Air

Radio Santa Ana, a program of Centro Cultural de Mexico in Santa Ana California, launched in June. Centro is a hub of community organizing for tenants rights and other issues for the Mexican-American community. They also operate a school of Mexican folk music. Their programming includes mostly Spanish language shows, but also other indigenous languages of Mexico. They are especially well known for Son Jarocho music, a folk music from Veracruz that has had a major revival and a lot of young new players connected to social movements.

International Media Action begins construction on Zumix Radio Station in East Boston

Zumix is a music school for kids, founded in 1993 with a summer neighborhood concert series as a community response to youth violence. They started offering music lessons after school, and since then they have moved into a beautiful old firehouse building, with a great stage, recording studios, a small business that creates youth employment by training and connecting youth to work as live sound engineers for events. And of course, they have an internet station which will soon be on FM. They include shows from “Wicked Fresh Locals” to “The Mosh Pit” to “Budder Gods Gaming” to “National …

Next stop, Troy New York!

On May 3rd, I did a workshop with the people who are starting a new station in Troy, New York. The Sanctuary for Independent Media is a renovated church that has lectures, bands, art shows, audio and video production and all sorts of activities for the community. A radio station will be a fantastic addition to the space. Spearheaded by longtime community media activists Steve Pierce and Branda Miller, the station aims to innovate and focus a lot of resources on a drivetime magazine show for the Capitol region. I’ll be helping to put up an antenna in Troy …

Dine College soon to launch new Radio Station, 92.1FM KXWR

by Tamar Maya Sharabi About 220 miles northwest from Albuquerque New Mexico, lies an area known as Tsaile, Arizona. It is more well known as Navajo Nation, which stretches across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is the largest land area “retained by a U.S. tribe.” On June 19th 2015 they will launch a new community radio station, housed at Dine College, the first tribal college in the U.S. established in 1968. You can read more about its history here. “Rooted in Diné language and culture, our mission is to advance quality post-secondary student learning and development to ensure …

IMA Visits Indian Community Radio Movement

From pete tridish In February, I visited India for a month to work with community radio stations. After many years of advocacy, community radio was first permitted in India in 2007. Among the stations that I visited was the very first community radio station in India, Sangham Radio, owned and operated by an organization of 6000 Dalit women laborers. I also visited stations in Madya Pradesh, Gurgagon, and other places. I spent several days with the UNESCO Chair for Community Media in Hyderabad, speaking with classes and graduate students. I also worked with NOMAD, a transmitter and antenna manufacturer …

New Station in Fraser Colorado, Soft Launch Onto The Airwaves

I was recently in Fraser with Denis Moynihan and Dave Dieter, getting this 10,000 watt station on the air before it’s permit deadline expired. It was a race to the finish line, but we got it on the air! Right now it is just a computer with some songs, but a studio is coming soon! Read More About the Station in Sky Hi Daily News

Danish Innovation In Antenna Placement Kickstarts Community Radio

Hundreds of new low power operators to benefit from cost savings from new Danish technology April 1, 2015 Copenhagen: Ownership of a radio station has traditionally been limited to those who could afford to construct immense steel towers, but Loof Lirpa, an engineer from Radio Gnisten in Copenhagen, has devised a new low-cost method of sending the music channel to the city. His new company, SpejlVikle, markets a device that can transform radio waves so they can travel through the earth in the same manner that they once traveled above ground.

San Joaquin Delta College Returns To The Airwaves

On January 1st, San Joaquin Delta College rebooted onto the FM airwaves after a 20 year lapse. The station had been on the air when Radio TV department head Will Story was a student, but the administration had axed it in the mid- 90s. When he came back to lead the department, Professor Story vowed to get the radio station back on the air, and took his sabbatical to wade through all the paperwork of applying for a LPFM and procuring funding. He recruited former student Governor Don Maszewski to lead the effort and be the new radio station …

Tlingit Tribe in Yakutat Alaska

In early November, I went to work on a new station for the Tlingit Tribe in Yakutat, Alaska. The station is being spearheaded by Gloria Benson, who works on social services for the tribe. The new studio is in a building that was once the school for the town, but is now the courthouse and planning department. Yakutat peaks at about 780 residents. There are no roads that go from yakutat to anywhere- the only way in is by airplane, or there is a ferry during the summer. It is about 30 miles from a gigantic glacier. A major …