World Radio Day 2020 on February 13 celebrates the radio as a method for teaching individuals, giving data, and promoting the opportunity of expression across cultures. The theme of World Radio Day 2020 is “Radio and Diversity”.
Radio is a ground-breaking medium for celebrating humanity in the entirety of its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic talk. At the worldwide level, radio remains the most generally expended medium. This novel capacity to connect the most extensive crowd implies radio can shape a general public’s experience of diversity, remain as a field for all voices be represented, to speak out, and heard. Radio stations should serve diverse communities, offering a wide variety of programs, perspectives, and content, and reflect the diversity of crowds in their associations and activities. Technological advances are additionally taking part in diversity in the radio sector: DAB+, DRM, IP streaming.
Radio is a low-cost medium explicitly suited to contacting remote communities and vulnerable individuals, offering a platform to intercede in the public debate, irrespective of individuals’ educational level. It additionally plays an urgent role in crisis communication and fiasco alleviation.
Radio is uniquely situated to unite communities together and cultivate positive dialogue for change. By tuning in to its crowds and reacting to their necessities, radio services give the diversity of perspectives and voices expected to address the difficulties we as a whole face.
For World Radio Day 2020, UNESCO approaches radio stations to maintain diversity, both in their newsroom and on the wireless transmissions.
The Executive Board of UNESCO prescribed to the General Conference the decree of World Radio Day, based on a wide counsel process. In 2011, UNESCO did a wide consultation procedure and it is proposed by Spain. The project leader of the Academia Espanola de la Radio got support from a few stakeholders, including major international broadcasters and broadcasting associations and unions.
In 1946, at long last, the day of United Nations Radio was established that was proposed by the Director-General of UNESCO. The 36th session of UNESCO’s General Conference broadcasted 13 February as World Radio Day.
In 2012, in Barcelona, Spain, a public event organized by the College of Telecommunications Engineers of Catalunya (COETTC) was held on 21 February 2012 to celebrate World Radio Day. The occasion was organized with the support of the Government of Catalonia.
In Switzerland, the European Broadcasting Union organized a Digital Radio Week. This was a series of technical events beginning on 13 February 2012, with the participation of the main radio standardization associations: DRM Consortium, WorldDMB, RadioDNS.
The United Nations General Assembly officially embraced UNESCO’s decree of World Radio Day on 14 January 2013. In the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, a resolution was embraced for declaring 13 February as World Radio Day.
The main purpose of observing World Radio Day is to spread awareness among the general population and the media to raise the significance of radio. It likewise urges decision-makers to establish and give access to data through radio, upgrade networking and create a kind of international cooperation among the broadcasters.
Radio unites individuals. In a time of quick media evolution, radio holds a special place in every community as an accessible source of fundamental news and data.
Be that as it may, radio is additionally a source of innovation that spearheaded cooperation with crowds and clients created content a very long time before they became standard.
Radio offers a brilliant presentation of diversity in its formats, in its languages, and among radio professionals themselves.
This sends a significant message to the world. As we endeavor to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals and handle the atmosphere emergency, radio has a key role to play as a source of data and motivation the same.
On this World Radio Day, let us perceive the suffering power of radio to promote diversity and help construct a more serene and comprehensive world.
World Radio Day is a medium to raise awareness about the radio and to make networking stronger among the telecasters. Radio is century-old now, however, a significant source of social communication.
The theme of World Radio Day 2020 is “Radio and Diversity”. The theme centers around diversity and plurilingualism. It is a significant medium to celebrate humanity in the entirety of its diversity and gives a platform for democratic discourse.
Commercial and state-owned radio stations will commend the day on air, welcoming specialists and intercultural communications to discuss cultural traditions and legacy.
Students of news coverage colleges will direct multilingual broadcasts on student radio, talk about the commitment of students of different faculties in the improvement of their nations, and share multimedia content on social networks.
Community Radios SuusamyrFM and Bakai-AtaFM organize various live broadcasting on the theme.
Every year the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrates World Radio Day by arranging activities with broadcasters, associations, and communities worldwide.
WRD edition is partitioned into three primary sub-themes:
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