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How to improve local radio stations so that all members of the community benefit

  Community radio stations should be improved to benefit all the members of our communities Since the born of Media Development Diversity Agency (MDDA), we have seen the mushrooming of radio stations in our communities. The MDDA was set up by an Act of Parliament (Act 14 of 2002) to enable “Historically disadvantaged communities and persons not adequately served by the media” to gain access to the media. Its beneficiaries will be community media and small commercial media. One amongst the ways in which MDDA can achieve all these objectives is: To encourage the  channeling  of resources to community and small commercial media. Now, those who have been to our community radio stations like me can attest that if not all the community radio stations but some, do not comply with all that is said in the MDDA documents with regards to how radio stations should include communities in some of their decisions.   I have done my Work Integrated Learning (WIL) at a community radio...