Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media rich world, to become creators and contributors of media. In many parts of the world, community radio acts as a vehicle for the community and voluntary sector, civil society, agencies, NGOs and citizens to work in partnership to further community development aims, in addition to broadcasting. There is legally defined community radio (as a distinct broadcasting sector) in many countries, such as France, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and Ireland. Much of the legislation has included phrases such as "social benefit", "social objectives" and "social gain" as part of the definition. Community radio has developed differently in different countries, and the term has somewhat different meanings in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and Australia, where freedom of speech laws and de facto realities differ.

Vision & Philosophy

RR Community Radio station serves its listeners by offering a variety of content that is not necessarily provided by the larger commercial radio stations. This Community radio will carry news and information programming geared toward the local area. Specialized musical shows are also of a feature of this community radio stations. This Community station can be valuable assets for this educationally backward region. This Community radio station avoids content found on commercial outlets such as music, sports and "drive time" personalities. A meme used by members of this movement is that community radio should be 10 percent radio and 90 percent community. This means that community radio station would focus on getting the community talking and not solely on radio (which is a technological process). The social concerns of community radio are stressed over radio per se. There is also a distinction drawn in contrast to mainstream stations, which are viewed as pandering to commercial concerns or the personalities of presenters. Conceptions of community in the literature Communities are complex entities, and what constitutes the "community" in community radio is subject to debate which varies by country. In sociology, a "community" has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location. This Community radio has been built around the ideals of access and participation. Station will be run by locals, typically to serve a local audience. However, the internet's availability and popularity will encourage our station to podcast and/or stream and audio and make it available globally. Our radio emphasizes service and community ¬mindedness, focusing on what the station can do for the community. The other stresses involvement and participation by the listener. In the service model locality is valued; This community radio, as a third tier, can provide content focused on a more local or particular community than a larger operation. Sometimes, though, providing syndicated content not already available within the station's service area is viewed as public service, within the country. In the access, the participation of community members in producing content is viewed as a good in itself.