The importance of place in community radio broadcasting: a case study of WDVX, Knoxville, Tennessee

Keough, Sara Beth

doi:10.1080/08873631003593265

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“…In that regard the station had a duty to serve the needs of a specific community in Irish society. Community stations have, as a primary objective, a role to play in building communities by facilitating dialogue between different sections of the community (Forde, Foxwell, & Meadows, 2002;Martin & Wilmore, 2010;Siemering, 2000), by reflecting local culture (Meadows, Forde, Ewart, & Foxwell, 2005), by reinforcing a sense of place (Keogh, 2010), by reducing the social or cultural isolation of particular communities (Reed & Hanson, 2006), and by reengaging marginalized groups to promote progressive social change (Baker, 2007;Barlow, 1988;Sussman & Estes, 2005). All of these objectives that are enshrined in the philosophy, policy approaches, and programming practices of community radio highlight the distinctiveness of the sector vis-à-vis commercial and public service broadcasters.…”

Section: Irish Radio and Lgbt Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“Openness through Sound”: Dualcasting on Irish LGBT Radio

Kerrigan¹,

O’Brien²

2018

Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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This article explores how Ireland's first LGBT radio station, Open FM, attempted to offer LGBT radio in a heteronormative media landscape. It uses semi-structured interviews with two of the stations founders as well as posts from online LGBT message bulletin boards to argue how Open FM ultimately became ambivalent about its LGBT status and adopted a dualcasting strategy. Despite its ambitions to be a community-led radio station for Ireland's LGBT community, the dualcasting strategy of the station framed many of its endeavors between the mainstream standards of radio broadcasting and the community of interest that their licence claimed to serve.Open FM was a temporary community radio station that aimed to serve an Irish LGBT audience. However, in terms of the vision for the station, the production practices it adopted, and its reception by the audience, Open FM was ambivalent about its LGBT status. Initially intended to be a platform for queer resistance and one that would contest the broader heteronormative Irish radio landscape, the authors argue that Open FM ultimately adopted a dualcasting strategy, which attempted to appeal to both the gay community while also maintaining a heterosexual audience. Sender (2007, p. 305) coins the term "dualcast" to theorize the connections between programs and imagined audiences. Sender's study of gay-themed programming on U.S. cable network Bravo argues that it "dualcast" in order to attract fragmented audiences; in short Bravo ensured that the same show appealed to different audiences. The authors further contend that a similar strategy of dualcasting was deployed in the context of Open FM. For this reason, it is our intention to expand upon the application of the idea of dualcasting to describe how Open FM reached its audience, but also fostered a dualcasting approach to the vision for the station and within its production practices, whereby it tried to

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Section: Irish Radio and Lgbt Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“Openness through Sound”: Dualcasting on Irish LGBT Radio

Kerrigan¹,

O’Brien²

2018

Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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“…In linking people together (Oliveira, 2013) and assisting with social relationships (Vidal, 2019), radio can help to contribute to a sense of community (Maina, 2013). For instance, volunteers experience a sense of belonging to community stations (Vuuren, 2002); and there is evidence that community radio listeners who tune in often become more active in the community (Milan, 2008) and can build networks by attending social events advertised on air (Keough, 2010). There is some additional evidence that radio can provide companionship for individuals who are disconnected and isolated (Ewart, 2011).…”

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The Role and Impact of Radio Listening Practices in Older Adults’ Everyday Lives

Krause

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Previous research has indicated older adults value listening to music as a leisure activity. Yet, recent research into listening practices broadly has often focused on younger adults and the use of newer, digital listening technologies. Nonetheless, the radio, which is familiar to older people who grew up with it at the forefront of family life, is important to consider with regard to listening practices and the potential associated well-being benefits. This research investigated older adults’ everyday radio listening practices, in order to begin to understand how the radio fits into their daily lives and how it might influence their sense of well-being. Twenty-five Australian residents (aged 66–87; 56% female, 44% male) participated in semi-structured, one-to-one interviews. The results of a qualitative thematic analysis revealed themes concerning listening preferences, listening routines, access, and motivations/outcomes. While personal preferences (concerning content, stations, and presenters) were diverse, individuals clearly communicated these as well as their established listening routines and habits. Listener motivations varied: some people focused on the enjoyment that listening to the radio creates while some noted benefits to their well-being, such as relaxation, modifying their mood, and feelings of comfort and community. Radio listening practices can be defined in terms of differing engagement styles, as characterized using continua ranging from passive to active, or focused, listening as well as generalized or specific listening. Based on participants’ experiences, a proposed engagement space model links how people engage with the radio to the possible outcomes mentioned. Importantly, benefits to well-being can result from varied engagement styles. The findings presented provide an in-depth understanding of how the radio fits into older adults’ everyday life, with implications for considering how the radio might be used as a widely accessed, low-cost tool for maintaining and enhancing quality of later life.

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“…These studies explored the contributions of community radio stations to the development and wellbeing of communities. For the most part, a consensus emerged that community radio contributed to its community by reducing isolation (Read and Hanson, 2006); by encouraging a sense of place (Keough, 2010); by fostering dialogue (Siemering, 2000); by show-casing local culture (Meadows et al ., 2005) and by including marginalised groups (Barlow, 1988; Sussman and Estes, 2005; Baker, 2007). The defining characteristic of community media also contrasted with commercial and public service outfits in their structures of community based ownership, control and financing.…”

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confidence: 99%

Community radio, democratic participation and the public sphere

Gaynor

O’Brien

2017

Irish Journal of Sociology

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Community radio is unique when compared to its commercial and public service counterparts in that, as a non-profit activity, it is owned, managed and controlled by local communities, In theory therefore, community radio offers the potential for more broad-based participation in deliberation and debate within the public sphere engaging multiple voices and perspectives and contributing towards progressive social change. Drawing on a study of four community radio stations in Ireland within a framework drawn from the evolving work of Habermas and associated deliberative, social and media theorists, in this article we examine the extent to which this is the case in practice. We find that democratic participation is still not optimised within the four stations studied. We argue that the reasons for this lie in four main areas: a somewhat limited policy framework; a focus within training programmes on technical competencies over content; the weakness of linkages between stations and their local community groups; and the failure of the latter to understand the unique remit of community radio. The article draws lessons of specific interest to researchers and activists in these domains, as well as offering a framework to those interested in examining community media’s contribution to the re-animation of the public sphere more broadly.

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The importance of place in community radio broadcasting: a case study of WDVX, Knoxville, Tennessee

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

“Openness through Sound”: Dualcasting on Irish LGBT Radio

“Openness through Sound”: Dualcasting on Irish LGBT Radio

The Role and Impact of Radio Listening Practices in Older Adults’ Everyday Lives

Community radio, democratic participation and the public sphere

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