Community radio programs are for public service or for the interests of the community.

1. Setting up your own
Community Radio

2. I. Planning, Production
II. Public address system setup
III. Technical setup
IV. Programming
V. Radyo Pinaglabanan

3. Planning
• Step 1: Know your audience
• Step 2: Formulate objectives
• Step 3: Determine and allocate resources
– Manpower
– Materials
– Money
– Minutes
• Step 4: Select the appropriate format
• Step 5: Identify your priority messages
* From the very beginning, plan with your partner
people’s or mass organization

4. Production
• Step 1: Gather radio materials, equipment
• Step 2: Write the rundown sheet and/or script
• Step 3: Audition talents and prepare music
and sound effects
• Step 4: Recording segments (support
statements, interviews, MOS, etc.)

5. Public address system setup
dividing
speakers microphones
unit/driver
horn
DVD player
paired wire amplifier

6. Setting up your own PA radio
Unit Specifications Price
Horn Size: #16 or #20 P 550/P450
100 watts, 16 Ohms
Dividing unit or 100 watts P 480
driver
Player Any player P1,000 to P3,000
(depending on the optical media or file storage
to be used – cd, dvd, data disc, usb, etc.)
Amplifier 90 watts P1,800 to P3,000
For public address; not integrated amplifier
Speaker For (mixed) audio out P 500 to P 1,000
Any speaker , karaoke
Wire Paired wire (red and black); for outdoor
Microphone Anything that works on your amplifier P 400 to P2,000

7. Technical notes for the PA setup
• It is advisable that your amplifier have lower
wattage than your horn’s driver
• Integrated amplifier cannot be used for public
address setup
• Paired wire – thicker is better; also find ways
to hide it from the sun, rain and rats
• If you intend to mix music, plugs and talk,
better to have a mixer or more DVD players
• Provide an extension cord for the PA setup

8. Technical notes for the PA setup
• If you want your radio to reach more
people/homes, set up more horns. You will
also need more wires for each additional horn.

9. Produce your own programs
• Community radio programs are for public service
or for the interests of the community.
• Different program formats:
– Talk
– News – a pure news program will deliver news of the
day/hour
– Music
– Documentary
– Drama
– Magazine – combination of talk, interviews, news,
music, live music, radio dramas, etc.

10. Program segments
• Divide the hour/program in different segments.
• These are done live:
– Talk – better to center on ONE topic
– Interviews
– News reporting
• Canned/pre-recorded segments:
– Station ID, program ID
– Interviews
– Support statements
– Music
– Radio play, drama
– Plugs
• Essentials for every program: station ID, program ID,
greetings, host introduction to self, other plugs
commercials or PSAs

11. Rundown sheet
Program : Usapang Kababaihan
Time of Airing : 5-6pm
Item No. Contents Length
1 Standard introduction 01:00
Station ID, program ID
2 Host greetings 03:00
3 Newscast: local and national news 07:00
4 Plugs 02:00
Time check
5 Feature: Talk/interview on Comprehensive RH bill 20:00
6 Comments and questions from listeners 05:00
7 Plugs 02:00
Time check
8 Feature: conclude/recap feature of the day 05:00
9 Segment: market price check 10:00
10 Goodbyes and Program and Station ID 03:00

12. Radyo Pinaglabanan
• Protest radio of Brgy. Corazon de Jesus residents
resisting demolition
• Community pooled their own resources and a
home is volunteered to become the home of the
radio
• Timeslots – 4-6pm (timeslot selection based on
the time most number of people are in their
homes or in SAMANA’s converging area)
• Organizations in the community host different
programs
• A technical director from the community is
trained

13. • Aired from January 21-25
• Stopped airing after the January 25 violent
demolition when the equipment went missing
• Will be set up again this March
• Programming
– Gabriela CDJ – Usapang Kababaihan
– Anakbayan CDJ
– Sa Piling ni Corazon

16. Anakbayan CDJ radio program

17. Gabriela CDJ’s Usapang Kababaihan