Radio Sagada as ‘voice of the people’
>> Monday, November 14, 2011
HAPPY WEEKEND
Gina Dizon
(First of two parts)
SAGADA, Mountain Province -- Similar messages reminded Radio Sagada to be a community radio, voice of the people, practice grassroots journalism, move for social change and empowerment among other similar messages delivered by partners and guests during the launching of Radio Sagada Nov. 11,2011 here.
A day so fitting for launching the community radio, 11-11-11 according to numerology means an opportunity to “see the grey areas that lie between,” and get people closer to others, drawing in friendship and caring.
Supporting partners and institutions who helped Radio Sagada to what it is now instilled in their messages for the radio station to go beyond the launching and serve as a voice of empowerment of the community.
Representatives who delivered their strong messages of grassroots journalism were radio license holder National Council of Churches in the Philippines, project donor-partner Philippine Miserior Project Partners, project holder Northern Media Information Network, NorMin network Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC), and Kodao Productions.
NorMin chairperson Kathleen Okubo called on Radio Sagada to establish milestones in grassroots journalism where the media network airs stories of the people and uphold peoples communication rights.
Special guest Swiss national Bianca Miglioretto, community radio activist and member of ISIS- International exhorted Radio Sagada should serve as the voice of the people as it belongs to the people.
Women’s rights activist, Bianca enjoined volunteer broadcasters to host women’s health, women’s culture, women’s news, and other women’s programs for Radio Sagada.
Miglioretto also served as consultant for Northern Media Information Network and helped in the conceptualization of the proposal which now established Radio Sagada along with NorMin executive director Jun Verzola and then CDPC research and advocacy officer Mary Carling, now radio Sagada's station manager. Said proposal was forwarded to the Catholic Bishops of Germany-based Miserior granted for a three year program.
Radio Sagada started its broadcast test June this year 2011 after its transmitter was finally hooked up with the relay tower of SMART telecommunications located at Mt Ampakaw overlooking the towns of Besao, Ilocos, Bauko, Sabangan, and Tadian.
Due recognition goes to Radio Sagada Media Network member of the board of directors Tom Killip for negotiating with SMART and eventually the radio hooking up the radio transmitter, after failed attempts for quite some time.
Radio Sagada Media Network chairman of the Management Board Steve Dagacan in his message especially recognized the volunteers who made Radio Sagada actively operating to what it is now.
Initial talk programs by volunteers started late July including this writer hosting the program ‘Gag-ay di Umili’ aired every 10-11 a.m. of Wednesdays and Fridays. The program does commentaries on news and issues of the week be this political, economic or cultural and spiritual; and interviews with persons having knowledge on particular topics including Vice Mayor Richard Yodong and councilor Francis Kilongan on legislative matters; president Carol Balisong of Sumyaan and their remarkable program on sharing gifts as swine raising, DILG officer Edison Baddal on local governance and autonomy; and Rev PrinzelBalitog about the soul and All Souls Day.
Marcelo Daweg for the Cordillera Peoples Alliance hosts the program ‘Tangguyob’ aired every Saturday from 10-11 a.m. Marcelo talks about political and social issues leaning on the militant nature of CPA. After the CPA program comes in Sagada Mayor Eduardo Latawan’s secretary Robert Pangod who airs updates from the local government unit of Sagada every 11-12 Saturdays.
Agricultural technician Aida Abeya with the agricultural unit of the LGU comes in every Thursdays 10-11 a.m. every Thursday with her program ‘FITS on the Air’. FITS meaning Farmers Information Technology Services tells information on organic farming, climate change, tips on farming and other related information. MsAbeya just signed up for another one hour program every 1 to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays.
Patrick Pooten, a former announcer with BomboRadyo and currently principal of Bangaan National High School in his education program every 4-5 p.m. Saturdays, talks about education issues including child trafficking and school rules and regulations.
Environmentalist Jed Angway who also chairs the Sagada Solid Waste Association talks about solid waste management every 11-12 Wednesdays and does his program with station manager Mary Carling who goes with her radio name ‘MaCarl’.
By September, Montanosa Research and Development Center (MRDC), a member of the Board of Trustees of RadioSagada registered its program ‘Timekti Mannalon’ hosted by its staff every 12-1 pm Mondays. Special topics discussed by its staff are aired including features on agricultural communities where MRDC reach out its services on sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology through its 32 years of existence in marginalized areas in the Cordillera in Abra, Kalinga, Ifugao and Mountain Province.
From here, it is hoped that MRDC’s best practices learned through years be replicated and learned as these are aired. For one, the 17 year old microhydro power plant in Ngibat Kalinga featured the significance of a unified community in its early programs by Luis Edpis, Liason officer of MRDC with the Ngibat Farmers Association and this writer who also works currently with MRDC.
Other programs came in namely that on ‘Moral Recovery’ by Ray Tawaren of the Free Believers religious sect aired every 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays where hosts talk about relevant laws and spiritual messages and values from the Holy Book .
Representative from the office of Mountain Province Rep. MaximoDalog and Gov. Leonard Mayaen in the person of provincial administrator Franklin Odsey especially acknowledged broadcasts done in the vernacular.
‘Kotimya Eta on Da Air’ began airing every 4-5 on Sundays by this writer with her Igorot name ‘Masinnay’ along with ‘Gana-ing’, Igorot name of Maritess Abad-Matulay, and volunteer ‘Konyap’, Daisy Omaweng’s native name. ‘KyE on da Air’ is borrowed from the Yahoo email group ‘Kotimya Eta’ composed of members from the Kankanaey tribe of western Mountain Province who talk about anything and come up eventually with grains of truth and wisdom extracted from talks along the course of discussion. KyE which has slept for sometime is programmed to be transferred 11-12 o’clock Fridays.
‘KyE on Da Air’ among other topics spoken in the Kankanaey language, attempts to involve listeners on sharing Kankanaey terms from their own places with Radio Sagada reaching as far as Cervantes, Ilocos Sur where some Kankanaey are found, and in the fringes between Besao and Ilocos Sur and Besao and Tubo Abra; and Bauko, some parts of Tadian, Sabangan, and Bontoc.
A day so fitting for launching the community radio, 11-11-11 according to numerology means an opportunity to “see the grey areas that lie between,” and get people closer to others, drawing in friendship and caring.
Supporting partners and institutions who helped Radio Sagada to what it is now instilled in their messages for the radio station to go beyond the launching and serve as a voice of empowerment of the community.
Representatives who delivered their strong messages of grassroots journalism were radio license holder National Council of Churches in the Philippines, project donor-partner Philippine Miserior Project Partners, project holder Northern Media Information Network, NorMin network Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC), and Kodao Productions.
NorMin chairperson Kathleen Okubo called on Radio Sagada to establish milestones in grassroots journalism where the media network airs stories of the people and uphold peoples communication rights.
Special guest Swiss national Bianca Miglioretto, community radio activist and member of ISIS- International exhorted Radio Sagada should serve as the voice of the people as it belongs to the people.
Women’s rights activist, Bianca enjoined volunteer broadcasters to host women’s health, women’s culture, women’s news, and other women’s programs for Radio Sagada.
Miglioretto also served as consultant for Northern Media Information Network and helped in the conceptualization of the proposal which now established Radio Sagada along with NorMin executive director Jun Verzola and then CDPC research and advocacy officer Mary Carling, now radio Sagada's station manager. Said proposal was forwarded to the Catholic Bishops of Germany-based Miserior granted for a three year program.
Radio Sagada started its broadcast test June this year 2011 after its transmitter was finally hooked up with the relay tower of SMART telecommunications located at Mt Ampakaw overlooking the towns of Besao, Ilocos, Bauko, Sabangan, and Tadian.
Due recognition goes to Radio Sagada Media Network member of the board of directors Tom Killip for negotiating with SMART and eventually the radio hooking up the radio transmitter, after failed attempts for quite some time.
Radio Sagada Media Network chairman of the Management Board Steve Dagacan in his message especially recognized the volunteers who made Radio Sagada actively operating to what it is now.
Initial talk programs by volunteers started late July including this writer hosting the program ‘Gag-ay di Umili’ aired every 10-11 a.m. of Wednesdays and Fridays. The program does commentaries on news and issues of the week be this political, economic or cultural and spiritual; and interviews with persons having knowledge on particular topics including Vice Mayor Richard Yodong and councilor Francis Kilongan on legislative matters; president Carol Balisong of Sumyaan and their remarkable program on sharing gifts as swine raising, DILG officer Edison Baddal on local governance and autonomy; and Rev PrinzelBalitog about the soul and All Souls Day.
Marcelo Daweg for the Cordillera Peoples Alliance hosts the program ‘Tangguyob’ aired every Saturday from 10-11 a.m. Marcelo talks about political and social issues leaning on the militant nature of CPA. After the CPA program comes in Sagada Mayor Eduardo Latawan’s secretary Robert Pangod who airs updates from the local government unit of Sagada every 11-12 Saturdays.
Agricultural technician Aida Abeya with the agricultural unit of the LGU comes in every Thursdays 10-11 a.m. every Thursday with her program ‘FITS on the Air’. FITS meaning Farmers Information Technology Services tells information on organic farming, climate change, tips on farming and other related information. MsAbeya just signed up for another one hour program every 1 to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays.
Patrick Pooten, a former announcer with BomboRadyo and currently principal of Bangaan National High School in his education program every 4-5 p.m. Saturdays, talks about education issues including child trafficking and school rules and regulations.
Environmentalist Jed Angway who also chairs the Sagada Solid Waste Association talks about solid waste management every 11-12 Wednesdays and does his program with station manager Mary Carling who goes with her radio name ‘MaCarl’.
By September, Montanosa Research and Development Center (MRDC), a member of the Board of Trustees of RadioSagada registered its program ‘Timekti Mannalon’ hosted by its staff every 12-1 pm Mondays. Special topics discussed by its staff are aired including features on agricultural communities where MRDC reach out its services on sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology through its 32 years of existence in marginalized areas in the Cordillera in Abra, Kalinga, Ifugao and Mountain Province.
From here, it is hoped that MRDC’s best practices learned through years be replicated and learned as these are aired. For one, the 17 year old microhydro power plant in Ngibat Kalinga featured the significance of a unified community in its early programs by Luis Edpis, Liason officer of MRDC with the Ngibat Farmers Association and this writer who also works currently with MRDC.
Other programs came in namely that on ‘Moral Recovery’ by Ray Tawaren of the Free Believers religious sect aired every 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays where hosts talk about relevant laws and spiritual messages and values from the Holy Book .
Representative from the office of Mountain Province Rep. MaximoDalog and Gov. Leonard Mayaen in the person of provincial administrator Franklin Odsey especially acknowledged broadcasts done in the vernacular.
‘Kotimya Eta on Da Air’ began airing every 4-5 on Sundays by this writer with her Igorot name ‘Masinnay’ along with ‘Gana-ing’, Igorot name of Maritess Abad-Matulay, and volunteer ‘Konyap’, Daisy Omaweng’s native name. ‘KyE on da Air’ is borrowed from the Yahoo email group ‘Kotimya Eta’ composed of members from the Kankanaey tribe of western Mountain Province who talk about anything and come up eventually with grains of truth and wisdom extracted from talks along the course of discussion. KyE which has slept for sometime is programmed to be transferred 11-12 o’clock Fridays.
‘KyE on Da Air’ among other topics spoken in the Kankanaey language, attempts to involve listeners on sharing Kankanaey terms from their own places with Radio Sagada reaching as far as Cervantes, Ilocos Sur where some Kankanaey are found, and in the fringes between Besao and Ilocos Sur and Besao and Tubo Abra; and Bauko, some parts of Tadian, Sabangan, and Bontoc.
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