SARANGA - St Aloysius College Mangalore starts test broadcast

SARANG 107.8 - St Aloysius College (Mangalore) CRS started its test transmission on 24 June. After completing all its formalities, SARANG was waiting to go on air - WOL pending, which came in the last week of June. To begin with, SARANG CRS has been test-broadcasting for two hours every day, from 6 to 8pm. But gradually it will increase the broadcast time. The SARANG signals are received over 20-25 km radius and covers large agricultural, fisher folk, and daily wage earners' communities, besides huge student population. Broadcasts include programmes on health and hygine, farmers and agricultural issues, issues related to fisherfolk, children, and youth and students. There has been a cordial reception to the SARANG CRS - community people eagerly coming forward to air their day to day life - problems and issues, folk elements and and joys and sorrows. The St Aloysius College Community Radio broadcasts in four different languages - Konkani, Tulu, Kannada and English. Beary language programmes also have been tried, though not on a regular basis. While Konkani, Tulu, and Beary languages are major languages of the local communities, Kannada and English happen to be languages of formal communication.A formal launch of SARANG 107.8 is planned for after the monsoon season passes by. CEMCA played a major role in securing the WOL.

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Rev Dr Richard Rego SJ
Director, SARANG SAC 107.8FM Community Radio
Head & Asst Prof., MCMS
Dept of Mass Communication
St Aloysius College; P.B. 720
Mangalore - 575003.
www.richardrego.wordpress.com
www.staloysiuscollege.wordpress.com
0824-2449706.
+919448546425.