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The article contributes to a forum that discusses how publics can be studied within a global framework, specifically radio and its unintended publics. The author focuses on archival files preserved by the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC).

According to the selective exposure hypothesis, media consumption is determined by the ideological predispositions of individuals, who aim to confirm their opinions through media content. This research explores the role of the public state-owned radio and television corporation, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), as a facilitator of transversal exposure, that is, consumption that is not aligned with individuals’ prior convictions. Through a quantitative methodology based on contingency tables and the calculation of corrected typed residuals, and through the CIS post-electoral studies, we analyse the relevance of ideology, partisan identification and interest in public issues as predictors of public television and radio consumption over a period of 11 years (2008-2019) in Spain. The results indicate that being a voter of the party in government and sharing its ideology are related to a higher likelihood of consuming RTVE television channels. In addition, the results show a higher transversal exposure of public radio, compared to television, which is more strongly influenced by the ideology and partisanship of the audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New forms and practices of journalism evolve and stabilize when they are socially, culturally and institutionally enabled [Bossio, Diana, and Jacob L. Nelson. 2021. "Reconsidering Innovation: Situating and Evaluating Change in Journalism." Journalism Studies 22 (11): 1377–1381], signifying their acknowledgement in the triad of practice, academic research, and education. In the case of news podcasting, the practice is emerging in India, and so is academic research in the domain. However, the third vortex of education is largely missing in this case, as found in the course of the present research. This paper argues the need for podcasting to be included in the curricula of journalism schools in the Indian context. It presents the findings of 24 qualitative in-depth interviews with podcasting journalists and journalism educators in India, highlighting the need of including podcasting in curricula and the challenges to this. These two perspectives are then bridged to present a case for including news podcasting in the training of new journalists. The paper strongly argues that podcasting is a great value addition to journalism curricula, facilitating both aims of a journalism programme-employment and performing the normative function of journalism. Specifically, in India, this inclusion is necessary since news podcasting is a major way of reinventing audio journalism, which has been limited to only the public radio broadcasting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the significance of On the Wire, a BBC local radio programme, that provides a unique lens through which to examine changes in local radio, music radio in general and public service broadcasting. The paper provides a concise history and an account of the On the Wire, along with an explanation of its impact. The paper offers reasons for the programme's enduring appeal, including its ability to change and adapt, its emphasis on the local in a global context and its innovative approach to audience participation. The paper concludes by positing that the history of On the Wire provides valuable insights for broadcasters in general, highlighting key aspects that radio programmes can learn from its approach. By showcasing the possibilities of what local radio, music radio and public service broadcasting can be, On the Wire sets a positive example for what radio can achieve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A photonics‐based terahertz (THz) wireless fronthaul is proposed, and its feasibility is investigated by real‐time demonstration. The proposed wireless fronthaul can be simply integrated into existing fiber‐optic fronthaul, to serve as a complementary or emergency network. An optical signal can be converted into a THz wireless signal by photonics‐based THz‐signal generation technology, utilizing a unitraveling carrier photo‐diode. Following wireless transmission, the THz wireless signal is reconverted to an optical signal by using a Schottky‐barrier diode and an optical transmitter. To investigate the feasibility of our proposed concept, real‐time transmission over a 100 m‐equivalent configuration is demonstrated with 24.33 Gb/s common public radio interface option 10 signals, at a carrier frequency of 275 GHz. The latency added by the proposed wireless fronthaul was measured to be few 100 ns, which is negligibly lower than the wireless transmission latency required by 6G key performance indicator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout its history, radio in the US has reflected and reproduced dominant racial ideologies. This article highlights the experiences of individuals who shared their stories for the 2016 "Radical Listening" equity-focused podcasting project. As part of this project, participants recorded stories of racism and resistance from the larger Seattle area. Some participants chose to broadcast edited segments from their stories on the local public radio station. Their experience working with producers to broadcast their clips exposed the sonic centering of whiteness within public radio. The musical choices and stylistic norms of the station catered to the predominantly white listening audience, leaving contributors of color to accept these terms or keep their stories off the airwaves. Moments of suffering packaged and made public are inherently risky. Through mapping a particular instance of failed listening and its reverberations, this article traces the complicated ethical entanglements that can arise between storytellers and producers when editing audio for broadcast. How personal stories are disseminated and by whom impacts how these stories are then taken up and understood as meaningful by listeners. Listening occurs within gendered and raced bodies, and our positionality impacts how we understand the significance of the stories we hear. As their narratives traveled farther from the recording studio through radio and online spaces, participants contended with their inability to control the soundtrack of their experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1930 and 1943 over 400 public radio receiver installations were erected by Japan's national broadcaster in public parks around Japan. They were intended to bring radio broadcasting, during this period the voice of the state, to a wider audience and to play a part in Japan's home-front mobilisation efforts. The majority of installations seem to have been destroyed during or shortly after World War Two but roughly 40 are known to be extant, these have yet to receive systematic attention from either Japanese or foreign academics, they thus offer a fresh focus for research into the relationships between the interwar Japanese state and the listening publics. This paper aims primarily to draw attention to the existence of these little—known objects, it also offers a sketch of the media landscape into which they emerged, and covers two significant contemporary social developments—the growth of coordinated mass sport and exercise, and the 'year 2600' celebrations of 1940—which contributed to the spread of radio towers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through evidence gathered from sixteen interviews with producers and businesspeople in the podcast industry, this paper argues that the professionals that populated the early phase of the formalizing podcasting scene made up an interpretive community defined, in part, by their appreciation for, and experiences with, public radio. I chart how this interpretive community cast themselves against dominant public radio paradigms when they moved into podcasting, while also retaining much of public radio's ethos, and I discuss what the central preoccupations of this interpretive community were. I assert that audio broadcasting as understood and practiced within the interpretive community is a particularly millennial medium, influenced by the norms of digital communication. And I make claims about how this is foundational to understanding podcasting's political and aesthetic predispositions. Ultimately, this argument advances and nuances one connection between public radio and podcasting using qualitative interview data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As "the first draft of history," journalism is an essential agent of memory work. Although the relationship between the fields of memory studies and journalism studies has historically been underdeveloped, scholars in both disciplines have established productive and necessary connections between the two. One such connection is the area of anniversary journalism, or current news coverage of anniversaries of past events. Anniversary journalism is also a means by which journalism commemorates itself, particularly through the celebration of institutional anniversaries, and an opportunity for journalism organizations to summarize the past. Using a corpus of nearly 80 articles reflecting on the 50th anniversary of National Public Radio (NPR), the present study employs thematic analysis to examine how NPR engaged with its organizational past and American collective memory more broadly. This study identifies four themes throughout the network's commemorative coverage: the archive, nostalgia, democracy, and the public. I argue that the series should be understood as an organizational branding initiative that uses collective memory and anniversary journalism as a response to larger transformative change in the journalism industry, and thus, as a strategy to assert the continued cultural relevance of public service media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines French colonial and early Tunisian nationalist initiatives concerning public music listening practices in 1930s Protectorate Tunisia. Drawing on historical documents from the colonial archive, period travel logs, and Tunisian authors, I offer a history of café listening in Tunis focused on audition of ma'lūf, Tunisian Arab-Andalusī music. Specifically, I analyse a 1935 government-issued mandate directing café owners across the country to play pre-approved recordings of ma'lūf for their clientele. I consider this mandate alongside a co-occurrent policy of the nascent Rashidiyya organisation that prohibited live performance of ma'lūf in cafés. While these approaches appear contradictory – one encouraging ma'lūf listening and the other discouraging it – I demonstrate that French and elite Tunisian actors in fact sought similar goals: rescuing traditional music from neglect and debasement. I explore the way these policies reflected pre-existing ideological tensions among Tunisians around the respectability of music listening in public – especially with regard to class and gender – and how acts of colonial control sought to 'settle' ma'lūf listening, challenging Tunisian 'sensate sovereignty' (Robinson [2020]. Hungry Listening, Resonant Theory for Indigenous Studies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) and shaping emerging politics of multisensory and embodied listening. This account aims to situate ma'lūf listening within its dense sensory, cultural, and historical contexts, taking into account the social-sonic milieu of the café, colonial anxieties around public radio listening, and the use of music broadcasting to combat threats to colonial control. Finally, I identify examples of present-day approaches to 'unsettling' Tunisian listening and reclamation of multisensory musical experience from my ethnographic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some problems in sketching a history for such a wide-ranging array of New Zealand distance education provider and support agencies are reviewed and the principal agencies tabulated. The coincidence of first school teaching by correspondence and the start of public radio gives a starting point. The narrative suggests how New Zealand distance education expanded, how it achieved a positive identity at home and internationally, and how its various participants found a common framework in DEANZ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radio is one of the mass media technologies that were readily absorbed in and adapted to the patterns of construction and integration of communities. Among non-elite Kenyans, radio was inserted into their performative practice of greetings through a quasi-interactive programme known as kutuma salamu, which literally translates as "sending greetings." This article analyses the practices of kutuma salamu, a significant popular cultural phenomenon that is worthy of academic attention for at least two reasons. First, Voice of Kenya was the only radio service operational in Kenya from the 1960s to 1980s and it was largely associated with the serious business of official government communication. Second, in form and substance, this programme was very similar to present-day popular digital social media, yet dates from a time before the invention of the internet. The article examines how this popular cultural phenomenon thrived by disrupting official public service radio and how it mediated the performance of social identities. The main argument here is that radio has always provided an opportunity for alternative voices to be heard, and some of these voices can be understood as metaphorical extensions of the performance of transgressive social identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radio remains the most important information and entertainment medium in translingual South Africa. Subject to digitalization, it underwent major technical and structural transformation processes known as media convergence to maintain and to broaden audiences. These transformations have significant effects on the pragmatic realization of interactive talk and knowledge transfer. The study is based on an empirical multimodal discourse analysis of a Facebook video by the isiXhosa radio station Umhlobo Wenene. It observes dynamics of media convergence on the communicative situation. The example from a multilingual and mediated setting highlights impacts of conversation conventions externally imposed by promotional obligations. Furthermore, it examines how material affordances affect the conversation. The analysis shows that radio convergence has some enabling as well as some restrictive effects for realizing translingual knowledge transfer in mediated expert interviews. • Multimodal settings complexify membership in radio talk. • Visual dimension adds level of understanding in translingual radio communication. • Converged radio changes communicative and pragmatic affordances. • Radio genre conventions change through fusion with social media. • Public radio talk commodifies through convergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A liberalisation policy would later take effect to ensure that state-owned radio stations did not broadcast beyond their states within Nigeria - this policy, according to the author, was influenced by the IMF and the World Bank. The author familiarises the reader with different scholarly perspectives on public policy actualisation stages, which include problem identification, policy formulation, policy support through legislation, policy implementation and evaluation. The limitation of the liberalisation policy - the available state and private radio stations did little community and development-focused broadcasting - heightened the call for community radio (third-sector broadcasting). [Extracted from the article]

In the 1920s and 1930s radio receivers were advertised as the most wonderful invention of the century, making music and news from all over Europe easily accessible to everyone. What radio broadcasting brought to the musical scene was supposedly a perfect bond between technological innovation and the democratization of culture. According to Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), however, these idyllic perspectives had their aesthetic and political drawbacks. Although Adorno's essays on radio broadcasting (Current of Music, 2009) were written in 1938-1941 with American radio stations in mind, the motivation behind his radio scepticism can also be explained from an Estonian point of view. An analysis of radio listening and public reception in Estonia, with the focus on the years immediately following the beginning of regular radio broadcasts in Tallinn on 18th December 1926, reveals a considerable degree of similarity in the ideology surrounding radio broadcasts in their early days in Estonia and the US. While Adorno's remarks about the "standardisation" of radio broadcasts were not fully pertinent in the more varied and fragmented European context, the main problem he posed remains highly relevant: what is the intellectual and political price one has to pay for music to be easily accessible on the air? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to develop an audio image of the Holocaust in the genres of artistic radio –– i.e. in reportage, radio play, and feature –– produced in three public radio stations in Poland (Polish Radio Warsaw, Radio ŁódŹ, and Radio Lublin) in the years 1950–2020. This article is based on a query in the archives of the above-mentioned radio stations.In my research work, I used a hybrid method: I made a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the artistic contents of radio broadcasts. On the basis of the established quantitative data, I was looking for answers to the following question: what are the dynamics of producing artistic programs about the Holocaust in the years 1950–2020? A historical perspective, supplemented with media (uniquely radio) studies methodology, was used to analyse the subject. Artistic audio genres do not claim to settle any historiographic matters. They primarily have an aesthetic value (artistry of communication), although they may also have cognitive value (especially radio documentaries and reportages or documentary radio plays). The radio broadcast is not only an sonic record of history, but also an artistic work and important voice in the public discussion and shaping of the Polish extermination discourse (the discourse elevating Jewish victims, the discourse of Polish guilt, or the oppositional discourse of the Polish heroism). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globally daily news podcasts have exponentially grown in popularity. To build on the increased interest in this podcast format, this study examines three distinct programmes in this genre. The focus of our research specifically highlights the significant news events during the summer of 2020: the killing of George Floyd, and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a set of genre conventions adapted and expanded from previous podcast and radio news scholarship, this research analyses the impact podcasting has on daily audio news production. Our findings indicate the podcast host's empathy and intimacy, coalesced into powerful, immersive deep dive discussions. Those kinds of conversations have strongly influenced and transformed daily news production, while still maintaining journalistic ethics and aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to show to what extent alternative audio media can be built online, not only by amateurs but also as a combination of the energy and involvement of professional journalists and the community of listeners who are ready to support them. Moreover, the topic of the extent to which this form of production is similar to the model of alternative media produced by amateurs described by Hackett and Caroll (2006), as well as Atton and Hamilton (2010), is also discussed. Special attention is paid to the ways this can challenge the institutional media logic and provide an interesting alternative to pro-government public media and commercial mainstream media in a country in Central and Eastern Europe that is dropping down the rankings of the Democracy Index. The podcast Raport o stanie świata and two Internet radio stations, Radio Nowy Świat and Radio 357 from Poland, which are analysed in this article, were born in an act of protest against the negative changes in public service broadcasting, which became a propaganda tool. They are financed by listeners via the crowdfunding platform Patronite and do not broadcast advertising. A framework for analysing their functioning is devised using, in particular, theories of the public sphere and of alternative media. The study is based on content analysis of the call-in broadcasts disseminated for the first anniversary of the stations, Radio Nowy Świat (April 16 and July 9, 2022) and Radio 357 (January 5, 2022). Pre-structured interviews with the patrons of Raport o stanie świata are also used. Websites and social media accounts of these initiatives, as well as press coverage and data gathered by the National Broadcasting Council in relation to Polish Radio, are analysed as well. The research found that all three initiatives Raport o stanie świata, Radio Nowy Świat and Radio 357, despite being started by professionals, share some of the characteristics of alternative media and can significantly change the model of audio production, financing and consumption routines in Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses anonymizing elite interviewees. Based on our experiences with interviewing professional elites and ultra-elites in different research projects, we describe how the types of conflicts involving analysis and publication change when interviewees are not promised anonymity. We discuss how contextualizing the elite positions of anonymized interviewees becomes increasingly difficult in interviews with persons who hold prestigious positions of authority and are interviewed in their official capacity. Masking interviewees can create conflicts with regard to the researcher's presentation of results, the transparency of the research and the ability of interviewees to talk back. We show how working with non-anonymized interviewees – and even using excerpts from interviews on public radio – can be an option in qualitative research. However, non-anonymized interviews with elites should be considered only in some instances and may seriously hamper the validity of the material in other cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the effects of message framing and distraction on older adults' responses to a radio public service announcement (PSA) to promote influenza and pneumococci vaccinations. In detail, it addresses the message impact on recognition, attitudes toward the ad, and information-seeking intentions. The 2 × 2 online experiment was conducted in August 2019 in Germany. 378 participants aged 60 years and above received a radio PSA with either gain- or loss-framed messages (factor 1). Additionally, half of the participants completed a distraction task while listening (factor 2). Gain frames (η2 p =.02) and a non-distracted reception situation (η2 p =.04) positively influenced older adults' recognition accuracy. Recognition, in turn, was found to mediate the effect of framing and distraction on the intention to seek further information on the campaign (framing: b = -0.03, distraction: b = 0.05). We conclude that gain-framed radio PSAs are an appropriate tool to raise awareness for a vaccination campaign and its contents, especially when recipients are concentrated while listening to it. We suggest to implement them at the early stages of a health intervention to sensitize people about vaccination, followed by more in-depth information material (e.g., brochures) to create behavior change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study examines how media-portrayals of Palestinian–Israeli women, can help community members realize their capabilities. We present a comparison of the frequency and context of appearances, between different media institutions, public and commercial, and between different media technologies, radio and television, based on a sample that includes all news and current affairs programs broadcast on all five Israeli broadcast networks over 24 months (2016–2017). The results, which show underrepresentation and misrepresentation of Palestinian-Israeli women, are analyzed utilizing the capabilities-approach. Additionally, to better understand the implications of media representations on women's capabilities, we include semi-structured qualitative interviews with 15 Palestinian-Israeli women. The analysis suggests that Israeli broadcasting hinders the full realization of six distinct capabilities for Palestinian-Israeli women, which are detrimental to their wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The gambling business entails geo-economic opportunities for islands, especially in times of online gambling. However, it also involves risks like ill mental health, debt, and social problems. Furthermore, a heavy reliance on gambling revenues involves great moral dilemmas, especially when the gambling provision is operated within a not-for-profit public regime. This study concerns how these aspects are negotiated in the public discussion in Åland Islands, an autonomous group of islands situated between Finland and Sweden. By ruling of its regional parliament and the Finnish Lotteries Act, the Åland-based gambling monopoly company Ålands penningautomatförening (Paf) has the right to provide onshore gambling on the Islands, on the Internet, and on cruise ships trafficking the Baltic Sea. The study examines Paf's role as a pillar of the local community, and the ways in which this position is sustained and contested. By analyzing a corpus of 862 online texts from local newspapers and public radio services from 2006-2018, this study demonstrates how Åland depends on an incongruous public construction of Paf as a responsible actor that is simultaneously criticized for not exercising greater transparency and responsibility, highlighting a contradiction between the provision of harmful gambling products and economic benefits for the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyses the public service broadcast terrain within a changing sector that is driven by digital media convergence using the case of the BBC Sounds. From the findings, we demonstrate that the BBC Sounds promotes the idea of a visible media, an inter-medial platform providing agency to some of its listeners as they choose what content they want to listen to, while questioning whether this new streaming service offers more control than choice. In this study we identify issues surrounding accessibility for all when exploring on-demand content, and what impact this has on the public. Finally, we highlight the blurring of podcasts and radio and whether all live radio shows become, or risk becoming, podcasts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 12 February 1943, Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram (Phibun), Thailand's prime minister, handed a formal letter of resignation to the Council of Regency. The news of the prime minister's sudden departure shocked the two regents and other cabinet ministers. Nevertheless, when public radio broadcasters announced the news of the premier's resignation, Phibun retracted the resignation decision and sought to avenge those who drove him from office. Why did he resign and then reverse the decision? How can such confusing and irrational behaviours be explained when they remain a mystery even to historians? This article claims that Phibun engaged in a 'feigned resignation strategy', whereby he pretended to resign to see the reactions of different political factions and to test political loyalty. This article traces his pattern of feigned resignations from 1939 to 1944 to prove how he mastered such a strategy. Archival records indicate that he frequently informed his associates that he wished to resign from office but then eventually reversed his decision. Drawing from the concept of feigned resignation strategy, this article argues that the resignation in February 1943 stemmed from Phibun's motive to identify and root out political opponents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers have found differences between the ideological beliefs and preferred news sources of the major political parties in the United States (U.S.). However, few researchers explored potential differences in logical reasoning by party. We sought to replicate previously published ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans, examined their rationality using items from classic decision-making literature, and investigated the role of voters’ political news sources in decision-making. Surveying 239 Democrats and 117 Republicans, using Amazon Mechanical Turk, we posited three predictions. The first is that Democrats would disagree with politically conservative statements, agree that political news is being reported fairly, and disapprove of former President Donald Trump’s actions. We confirmed these predictions. We also predicted that the more conservative statements participants agreed with, the lower their rationality score and this hypothesis was confirmed. Lastly, we predicted that participants who relied on right-leaning media would score lower on a rationality test than those individuals who relied on center or left-leaning media. We found that voters who relied on Fox News scored lower on the rationality test than those who relied on National Public Radio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a discussion of narrative podcasts based on the analysis of Radio Ambulante, a Spanish language radio show created in the United States in 2011. The research aims to demonstrate that the emergence of the narrative podcast is strongly linked to the tradition of National Public Radio (NPR), the American public radio network founded in 1970. The article presents a brief history and examples of NPR radio shows that became fundamental in the development of the podcast’s journalistic tradition. In addition, it highlights the Radio Ambulante project as one of the most representative examples of this tradition in a foreign language. In this essay, two episodes of this podcast are analyzed: “Las Hijas de Maria Señorina” and “Mais Médicos”, productions of 2018 totally or partially dedicated to Brazil that had their audio transcribed in Portuguese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the making of American radio art, with output of corporations existed for commercial ends and to advance values consonant with consumer capitalism. Topics include information on system as loosely organized and mildly chaotic as American public radio; and extension of postmodern interdisciplinary art into the mass media.

On the anniversary of the first century of broadcasting, this article surveys the formation of broadcasting in the United States, and the free radio, microradio, and low-power FM (LPFM) movements as key moments in small-scale, noncommercial broadcasting. Introduced in 2000, LPFM contains lessons for the wider media landscape in the second century of broadcasting. In a heavily consolidated broadcasting environment with substantial barriers to entry, and an online environment dominated by large commercial platforms that gatekeep and algorithmically intermediate online communications, noncommercial community radio stands out as a very different template for communication infrastructure, one with an avowed commitment to carrying out democratic community relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the Croatian Music Alphabetarium of Croatian Radio, one of the numerous music broadcasts of Croatian Radio's Third Program (HR3), the only specialized public radio station for culture in Croatia, as a case study of a (seemingly successful) attempt to make scholarly musicological texts (in the form of radio speech) more accessible. The results of Croatian radio market research published in 2015 speak in favour of the possibility of making scientific musicological texts more accessible to the general public with the help of radio. These results were compared and supplemented with the results of the German survey from 2006, which clarify the expectations of German classical music listeners, and thus helps us understand the Croatian classical music listeners' expectations, which have not been researched in our country so far. The Croatian research also reveals that Croatian listeners are willing to listen to a speech for up to half an hour if they are interested in the topic, what encourages us to present and argue for the publication of scholarly musicological texts on the radio. Furthermore, the Croatian research reveals that our case study broadcast deals with two out of the fourteen most interesting topics for the Croatian listeners -- cultural heritage and contemporary culture. The Croatian musicologists who studied musicology and music journalism are well media educated, and thus willing to publish their texts not only in professional and scientific journals but also on HR3. In order for that to happen the HR3 editors, who are accomplished musicologists and journalists, have to demonstrate their willingness as well as their superiors to broadcast scholarly musicological texts. Since the foundation of the Croatian Radio Third program (in 1964) and the Department of Musicology in Zagreb (in 1970), named Department of Musicology and Music Journalism in the period between 1977 and 1994, these conditions had been met until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. During that period (1964-2020) HR3 regularly broadcasted scholarly musicological texts, and in the last eight years HR3 has produced as many as two weekly broadcasts and two monthly broadcasts with scholarly musicological texts. The pandemic has given rise to the negative trend of reducing speech in classical music broadcasts, but hopefully not for long. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects the views of author on her experience of programming on the local public-radio station—sober reports punctuated by a cavalcade of experts preaching self-care, and quotidian grime of urban life occasions uneasiness in the city's fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus. Topics include psychological resistance to the new reality in certain quarters in immunological resistance; and number of homeless or food-insecure children in New York City public school system.

As the 2020 American presidential election approaches, it is worth thinking about the current electoral moment in terms of lessons from the recent and not‐so‐recent past. This article begins with an unlikely analysis. Ordinary life captures the attention of citizens who vote but do not spend their lives 24/7 on social media or cable news or public radio. Ordinary people do not spend their time discussing social policy over dinner. Ordinary people go to dinner—not dinner parties. The ordinary people are the path to victory in any political contest. This article explores the "ordinary" and its relation to politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines a fictional radio programme from the Peruvian Amazon as a response to extractivism in the region. Etsa Nantu: Pasión en la Amazonía (2012) resulted from a six-month collaboration among Peruvians deeply concerned with how the media had portrayed Indigenous opposition to extractivism after the 2009 Baguazo, a violent struggle between the Peruvian national police (PNP) and protestors in the area surrounding Bagua, Peru. Not only does the radio drama serve as a medium for Awajún and Wampís participants to imagine alternative outcomes for such encounters, it also dramatises critical interculturality – placing Indigenous worldviews on equal ground with Western ones – to prevent further conflicts. I argue that because radio constitutes an aural format, different audiences' listening practices will diversely mediate the hearing of these messages. In exploring listening as a challenge for allowing marginalised voices to speak to broad publics through the radio, the analysis also highlights sounds of the Baguazo in Etsa Nantu that non-Amazonian listeners might not hear. I propose auditory attention to such sounds, even when listeners cannot fully understand them, as a way to practise the interculturality proposed by the programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2018, the BBC announced plans to replace their long-established 'iPlayer Radio' service with a new platform called BBC Sounds. The new service was promoted as a single space where listeners can consume BBC radio, music and podcasts, creating a single point of interaction between audiences and content. This is, however, far more than an exercise in reframing public service radio content in a new app; it is also a practical application of these policies through the commissioning of content made for online, specifically, younger, audiences. This shift happens not only at a time where traditional broadcasters are exploring ways to re-engage younger listeners but as commentators search for the 'Netflix of Podcasts' This article explores the manner in which the BBC Sounds project is a response to current trends in the radio industry and to which it recognizes podcasting as an audio medium that is distinct from but institutionally connected to radio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]