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Role Of Vision Africa Radio Umuahia, On Political Mobilization Of Rural Dwellers
[A CASE STUDY OF UMUAHIA NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA]
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1. Uses of Radio:
Radio has many uses other than broadcasting
programmes at the home for example schools, business, hospitals, farms,
market etc and many other organizations use closed circuit radio. Since
the late 1970s, such equipment as audio cassette, recorder, audio disc
players and personal recorders have changed the way people use radio in
their homes to listen to various programmes on the station. Considering
the fact that radio (vision Africa) is not the only means of
communication, let us have an overview of the various media of
communication.
11. Assessment of the Various Media:
Radio,
television, magazines, pamphlets, posters, brochures and visual-audio
aids are important media for conveying information simultaneously to a
large population. They easily open the eyes of the people to the fact of
mobilization. Radio especially, can reach people and be effectively
used in many countries as instrument of mobilization.
An overview of
the assessment reveals to us that upon the benefits according to each of
these media, there are loopholes which stop them from doing perfectly
the work they are meant for considering these loopholes; one may be
tempted to ask what the feature of radio is?
History of Radio
Accordingly,
nwogbunyan (2006:125) noted that in 1860 Maxwell predicted the
existence of radio walls in 1895; Marconi transmitted radio signals for a
short distance and at the turn of the century conducted successful
trans-Atlantic tests.
The new communication medium was first known as
wireless. The first station was W.B2 spring field, Massa chusset on
September 15, 1921(nwogbunyan 2006:126). Broadcasting started in Nigeria
with what was referred to as the radio diffusion systems (RDS) or
re-diffusion system, introduced by the British colonial government in
1932. In this system Nigeria subscribes received the broadcasts (news
and other programmes) through cable connected to their gramophones. The
major reason for establishing RDA was strengthening by economic,
political and culturalites with the colonies and all important area of
the common wealth.
1958, marked the turning point in the annals of
broadcasting in Nigeria with the introduction of an ordinance
establishing the Nigeria broadcasting service (N.B.S) the electronic
media (wireless and radio transmission) were constituted under the
colonial government headed by the governor general, sir James Wilson,
Robertson, and assented to in the name of her majesty queen Elizabeth
11. N.B.S was undertaken by the government of the federation and had
four major stations at Lagos (national station, Enugu. Eastern station).
Ibadan (western station and Kaduna (northern station).
However, in
June 01, 1978 the federal government of Nigeria announced the change of
the name from Nigeria broadcasting service (N.B.S) to federal radio
corporation (FRC) with other stations across the state of the
federation.
1.2 Statement of the Research Problem
Radio is one of
the most persuasive and effective medium of mass communication. The
problems to investigate is the extent to which radio have influenced
umuahia north local government areas dwellers. It is the duty of radio
to properly educate, inform, entertain or enlighten as well as mobilize
the entire local government area. Though the importance of radio cannot
be over emphasized in the third world country like
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study is geared toward finding out the role of vision Africa radio umuahia on political mobilization of rural dweller in umuahia north local government area. For this study, five rural villages in umuahia north local government area were studied. The importance of radio as the most mobilization media was universally acknowledged. This research project used survey research and its primary source of data collection for the study is the questionnaire which is formed from three main research que ... Continue reading---
