Tel : +255
28—276 2633
Website:www.radiofaraja.com
Email:radiofarajafm@gmail.com
P.O. BOX 47
SHINYANGA
TANZANIA
RADIO PROFILE
INTRODUCTION
Radio Faraja FM
Stereois a Community Catholic Radio Station established in June 2001. It is
owned by the Catholic Diocese of Shinyanga.
It aims at being a medium of authenticity and accuracy towards quantitative
and qualitative development (Integral development) of a human person in
Shinyanga Region.
VISION
It aims at being
a medium of authenticity and accuracy towards quantitative and qualitative
development (Integral development) of a human person in Shinyanga Region.
MISSION
To provide
accurately and authentically all the information, education for development,
health, spiritual, social and cultural issues for all without prejudice.
RADIO
FARAJA’S OBJECTIVES
•
To
offer educational programmes to the society (e.g. Agricultural, environmental,
domestic science, health and other social issues facing the society-HIV/AIDS,
Superstitious beliefs etc)
•
To
create awareness among the people to take development in their hands
•
To
disseminate News and information
•
To
provide a source of entertainment e.g. Hymns, Choirs, Music, cultural Music and
Radio plays
•
To
preach the Word of God to the people in the Diocese of Shinyanga and other
regions in Tanzania.
Radio Faraja is
owned by the Catholic Diocese of Shinyanga and is intended to cover the whole
Diocese of Shinyanga dominated mainly by the sukumatribes man. This is a vast
area of land and most of the residents are sukumas with average academic education
and actually some of them, (a few), with non!
The radio is
therefore a good tool to use to uplift the educational impact and therefore the
understanding the prevailing advancing mode of life as a whole.
Radio Faraja was
therefore launched in the early two thousand years with this aim. Radio Faraja
was granted its broadcasting license in June 2001. The license which radio
Faraja got was that of District which could not be used to air commercials nor
acquire any sort of profit, NON PROFITABLE, NON COMMERCIAL LICENSE.
In the last three
years, progress has been very slow-if-any regarding the up grading of the Radio
Broadcasting sector as a whole. Purchasing of different equipments for the
different section of the station has been very slow. Radio Faraja has managed
to up very attractive programmes – educative, entertaining and information and
what it mainly stands for-religious.
STUDIOS
For the last
three years the station managed to purchase equipment for a DJ style studio No.
2. Now two studios can be used, studio No. 1 for production and studio No. 2 as
full day ON AIR, which has not changed-nineteen hours from 0500hr in the
morning to 2400hrs a day-daily.
STUDIO
SUPPORT SYSTEM
A main control
room continues to hold satellite equipment-now only for Deutsche Welle radio.
The system has an
outside broadcast facility that is capable of making live commentaries at least
from distances with a maximum distance of 50 km by radio studio/transmitter
linking system. This transmitter has a distance coverage of about the said 50
km radius-omni directional.
PROGRAMMES
As have been
stated, the transmission of the station is for 19 hours a day from 0800hrs GMT
to 21hrs GMT (0500hrs – 2400hrs East African Local time). Seventy percent of
the total programmes are produced by the programmes staff of Radio
Faraja-relays and programmes by other broadcasters and artists complete the
remain percentage.
Mondays
to Saturdays, 25% of the programs are religious,while on Sundays 85%
of
the them a religious.
The
programme content is very well planned and they vary from educative,
entertaining, informative. Faraja relays DeutcheWelle Swahili three times
morning, noon and evening – one hour of each of these relays. Radio Faraja has
its own news at 1600hrs,1000hrs and 1930hrs. Other news related programmes can
be heard around the week.
STAFFING
The station has
ten employed staffs, most of them are Journalists. Only six are Administrative
staff, a Technician, Driver,Director andan Office Attendant.
Jonalists and Producers
are working hard and creative.
COVERAGE
Radio
Faraja is having a coverage in the whole Diocese of Shinyanga (region) and some
Districts like Nzega, Igunga in Tabora region, Kwimba, Misungwi in Mwanzaregion,Isaka
in KahamaDistrict,Chato in Geita region and some areas in SingidaregionandSimiyu
region. This is a vast area of land and most of the residents are sukumas with
average academic education and actually some of them, (a few), with non!
We therefore believe that, Radio
remains a powerful tool to bring social changes and uplift the educational
standard of the people. As a second medium community members can listen to it,
while doing something else like cooking, looking after cattle, fetching
firewood, driving, learning and so forth.
EXPRESSION
OF INTEREST WITHTEST AND TREAT PROGRAM.
Radio faraja is running the program called UKIMWI
NA JAMII which is aired once in a week on Sunday from 12:00am to 13:00am
This program
produced by VERONICA NATALIS AND FAUSTINE KASALA.
The program aimed to the following contents;
·
To
create awareness to fight against stigmatism.
·
To
promote voluntary testing.
PROGRAM
|
SEGMENT
|
TARGET GROUP
|
OBJECTIVES
|
ESPECT OUT(THEMES)
|
UKIMWI naJamii
|
Discussion,Interviews,Phone
in but some how documentary Program
|
All people
|
To create
awareness to fight against stigmatis.
To promote
voluntary testing.
|
HIV/AIDS is a
dangerous desease take care.
|
CHALLENGES.
·
We
are not reaching to the targeted groups
because we have only one means of transport and sometimes producers have got no
financial support to enable them to travel.
·
lack
of Income.
·
Lack
of Technique support such as computers and digital recorders are not enough.
·
We
have the challenge of missing generator and some times we are OFF AIR when
power is out.
Radio faraja is hoping the best from TEST AND TREAT PROGRAM.
With much
regards,
_______________________
MOSHI NDUGULILE
PROGRAM MANAGER
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