MISA prepares to celebrate World Radio Day

MISA prepares to celebrate World Radio Day

WINDHOEK, Namibia, 10 February 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The fourth annual World Radio Day will be celebrated throughout the world on Friday, 13 February 2015. The theme for this year's celebration is Youth & Media. This theme is well represented in the events hosted by our National Chapters throughout southern Africa on Friday.




MISA Botswana and local radio stations will celebrate World Radio Day at the Game City Mall in Gaborone. Radio stations will broadcast live from 9am – 12pm. The broadcasts will focus on youth, in keeping with this year's World Radio Day theme. A youth representative will by the keynote speaker at the event, and there will also be speeches from MISA, UNESCO, and the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority. The event will end with entertainment from radio DJs.




MISA Lesotho, in partnership with the National UNESCO Commission and Transformation Resource Centre, will celebrate World Radio Day by holding a live broadcast by all of the radio stations in Maseru. The live broadcast will be airing youth radio programmes from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in Maseru all afternoon. In addition to celebrating this year's World Radio Day theme, this initiative also hopes to amplify youth voices on political parties' manifestos before elections in Lesotho on 28 February.




MISA Malawi will issue a press statement on the day, and will conduct interviews with local media outlets on the role of radio in promoting citizen participation in the governance process.




MISA Namibia, in partnership with the UNESCO National Commission and UNESCO's Windhoek office, as well as commercial, public and community radio stations will host a half-day event at the Polytechnic of Namibia to highlight the importance of youth involvement in radio. An important aspect of the day's programme will be a panel discussion with youth and radio station managers on youth-oriented content and how to involve youth in content production. A training workshop for radio stations on how to produce child/youth friendly content will run from Tuesday until Thursday. Further, five radio stations each adopted a school, and this week the schools will visit their adoptive radio station for a familiarisation visit and to learn how to produce radio content. These schools will also join the celebrations on Friday.




MISA Zambia is collaborating with their local UNESCO office, which is leading the day's commemorations. MISA Zambia will be sitting on a committee setup by UNESCO. MISA Zambia's National Director will also participate in a panel discussion on youth and radio on Radio Phoenix, a major private radio station in Zambia.




MISA Zimbabwe will be issuing a statement and will circulate print and radio adverts this week about the state of radio broadcasting in the country.


SOURCE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)


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