Anyone out there mixing in education programming into their broadcast schedule?
What sort of programs are you broadcasting that cover education?
Looking for some ideas here and sources of programming. 🙂
I am very surprised no one has responded to censoredship about educational programs.
In the one or two weeks since this was posted, I have been thinking about radio education and have decided that a good place to start the discussion is to ask censoredship what kind of subjects he wishes to teach with educational programming?
Going deeper, "teaching" would consist of passing "knowledge" to a "learner", also known as a "student (one who studies)".
But knowledge comes in at least two kinds: genuine and artificial.
Artificial knowledge might include a lot of the new age healing claims, astrology, mythology, religion, magic, witchcraft, superstition, revisionist history and propaganda.
Genuine knowledge would include the sciences, languages, accurate history geography and astronomy.
Of course a journalistically ethical newscast is "educational" as it "teaches" us what happened.
What are you looking for, censoredship?
I recently carried a one hour program on Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors. Found it on youtube.
Good questions as always Carl!
I tend to shy away from "artificial knowledge". Lamestream media is full of that stuff, especially the revisionist history.
Genuine knowledge is more the focus I'd say.
History and geography is great. Science programming would be great (as local science literacy is approaching zero).
News is fine, but still struggling to find any news source that appropriate.
Fiddling with IRN USA's news (good for top of the hour). Supposed to be licensed or something, but can/will deal with that later or migrate to something else.
Here are a few choice programs available for us to broadcast.
Free Speech Radio News - Pacifica Network - Mon. Fri. 30-minutes a day
fsrn.org
Democracy Now with award winning journalists Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez 1-hr daily Mon.-Fri. on ALL the main issues. Amy actually WENT to Haiti after the earthquake. democracynow.org
The Shortwave Report produced by Dan Roberts from his solar powered cabin in California, a collection of English language news clips from shortwave broadcasts worldwide so we can hear what other countries are reporting. 30-minutes weekly. outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml
Between the Lines a professional weekly roundup of the news being ignored by mainstream media, 30-minutes weekly.
btlonline.org/2011/110916-btl.html
Counterspin is another weekly roundup of major stories 30-min. fair.org
Big Picture Science with Seth Shostak and Molly Bentley, from S.E.T.I. Weekly 1-hour. radio.seti.org
twit.tv provides a ton of weekly shows on computers, technology, law, and HAM radio.
I have more if you need more.
Let us know if you like/don't like any of these shows.
EarthSky.org has short podcast's 90 seconds while the longer podcast is 22 minutes. I asked for permission to carry their materials and was given the okay to share.
If you want to carry some classical music full time or part time WCPE-FM The Classical Station allows relay of their programming. http://theclassicalstation.org/partners.shtml That link will take you to their partner station's page with detail's on what you need to carry their programming. I have been carrying their broadcast's overnights. Not bad coming from a 100 KW FM with translators and cable outlets already carrying their programs. I know, i know...classical music on a rock station?? Sure, why not? lol
Thanks for the recommendations.
I like most of them.
Some are a bit to one political side.
Earth Sky is a favorite and certainly will include in rotation. Glad they are Part15 reuse friendly.
Have tons of work to do on my schedule and means to auto get the content and keep track of things. Trying to homebrew what I can to do most of this (software).
Hello censoredship
Your response hasn't provided enough to go on, so I have no way of knowing what you want.
"Some are a bit to one political side" doesn't tell us which programs are unacceptable to you, leaving us with no way to make future recommendations.
What you have disclosed is that your own bias is making the choice, without regard to listener preference.
Low power to the people.
Here's what I did for my programming.
I carried Feature Story News at the top of the hour. Great world news and not U.S. oriented like so many are. Also politcally neutral. Not free (they ask for $15 per month) but well worth it.
Most of my programming was playlist based (each containing thousands of songs). I whipped up some software to automatically generate (text to speech) the artist/name at the end of each song. I did 60s during the days weekdays (every Top 100 charting single), jazz at night (30s to 60s) and some Old Time Radio, also at night. During the weekend, mostly obscure doowop (50s & 60s).
And interspersed throughout were hosted programs, some done by me (Teenage Dreams - 50s and 60s teenage oriented music, Slightly Bent - probably my favorite, comic music, intentional or otherwise) and others done by contributors (we had several classical shows, modern west coast jazz, obscure popular music from the 60s, Cliff Richard, dance, etc.). I also produced a show consisting entirely of local music, either prerecorded or live tapings at various venues.
Other than the news, everything was 'home grown', so to speak.
Syndicated shows are nice, but I wanted (and needed) to control the content, to minimize the chances of complaints and thus the chances of Canada's friendly neighborhood content regulatory body (the CRTC) demanding that I get a license (and as a result effectively shutting me down). Necessary in Canada.
Well Mr. Blare, with my range and reception so far the station is probably going to me mostly myself listening 🙁
I am satisfied with the recommendations. I think Democracy Now was in the recommended list and was what spiked my response. Count me as a less frequent listener of the show than I use to be. It use to be less partisan. Seems like Amy sold out to the politicians on the left.
Never was a fan of the name of the show including democracy. Afterall, we live in a REPUBLIC Carl. Unsure who and when and where democracy reared its head. Like most political systems, nice on paper, terror when implemented.
Having said all that, I likely will air more liberty minded talk(right side) than left sided stuff. Exceptions to the right leanings end when they pound on religion and worshiping their sky (g)od or clear discrimination.
BUT, am more into factual and historical than propaganda and conspiracy theories. Conspiracy has its place, while propaganda has no place.
Real interested in geology, geography, history, approachable physics, general science, news on understandable research, etc.
I find a BIG problem with nearly zero based in reality earth and science info in my general population here and such is re-enforced by the anemic science test scores in my local schools. State standardized testing of 11th grade at the high school shows in 2012, 27.9% met the standard. That lags the state basic pass by 41.8% of those tested. Both scores are an abysmal failure and indicative of a population out of touch with nature and many of the careers of today.
So any programming towards that interest would be great.
Thank you censoredship for giving detail about your stand point regarding desired programming.
It is unfortunate that I wrote the line calling you biased, as that was not a proper thing for me to think or say about you. Too bad my 30-minute edit time had expired by the time I started worrying about it.
In defense of the program list I gave, I would say that not a single one of the programs comes from conspiracy or propaganda, but very much from truthful, accurate, unfiltered journalism at its purest.
There is one more radical program I have been trying to carry because I care about it's boldness in daring to open certain cans of worm, and that is Alex Jones, but I have been unable to get a reply from his people. Even though he is sometimes very wrong in his opinions, he hits home runs every so often and I believe is in peril for daring to challenge the big powers.
The term "conspiracy theory" has been misused as a personal criticism, when a more realistic term would usually be "conspiracy opinion", and all thinking persons have the occasional conspiracy opinions.
For censoredship and other programmers, a fabulous source of educational programming can be found at Librivox, a website devoted to providing public domain audio books read by volunteers.
During the overnight hours this whole weekend I have been running The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, and these are marvelous stories. Next weekend I may run Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, much more than a children's story, from Lewis Carroll.
Thanks Carl for the Librivox mention. Have to download some files and give these a listen and see how they are.
Their website isn't too friendly in searching and finding things though.