| What is Community Public Radio? |
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The answer varies quite a bit depending on your country of origin and your point of view. From wikipedia:
WNMC fits in pretty well by these general standards: we're staffed mostly by community volunteers, we're community oriented, we broadcast a wide variety of locally produced programming, etc. For some, though, community public radio MUST be a collective (managed & directed collectively by all the volunteers). WNMC is not collectively managed. The problem some see in the collective governance model is that listeners' interests are not properly represented, and collectively-run stations tend to be much more oriented toward the volunteers than toward the broader listenership. Some say that community radio should be run by a community board exclusively dedicated to community media (rather than, say, an elected board of education, which would have priorities other than community media). WNMC does not qualify as a community station by these stricter standards. But, in that the station is staffed by community volunteers, and its license is held by an elected board (the NMC Board of Trustees), and in its local character, WNMC has a pretty strong claim to the community radio mantle. |
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| Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 January 2008 ) |