Radio-i
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Radio-i is a Multilingual commercial radio station[1] based in central Japan in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.
Nagoya University cites Radio-i FM (79.5 MHz) and ZIP-FM (77.8 MHz) as sources[2][3] of multilingual information during emergencies. At the time of disaster it can broadcast in the following languages: Chinese, English, Simple Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog.[4]
Radio-i arguably has the largest area served among the FM radio stations in Japan.[citation needed] Set up as Aichi International Broadcasting, Radio-i commenced operations in April 2000 and is the third of a series of radio stations created to bring a more international scope to local regions across Japan (they form the MegaNet.)
The station broadcasts on three frequencies, 79.5 FM in Nagoya and across Aichi Prefecture, 79.9 FM in Hamamatsu and southern Shizuoka Prefecture, and on 83.0 FM in the southern districts of Aichi Prefecture from Toyohashi. Playing a mixture of Top 40 and Album-oriented rock formats, Radio-i features a team of mostly bilingual radio DJ's handling the main programmes.
Current line up features Cocoro in the mornings with Canadian David Yanase and New Yorker, Mark Bailey alternating the mid mornings. Afternoons have Australian DJ Chris Glenn followed by Eri Sano, with evenings DJ'd by Takeda Yuko. Other main DJ's include Hana Shintani, American Nic James.
The Sorensen Media Group[5] in Guam provides some of the original radio programming for both Radio-i Nagoya and InterFM Tokyo.
[edit] References
- ^ Sanae Tsuda (2005). Japan's Experience of Language Contact: A Case Study of RADIO-i. Language and Intercultural Communication Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 248–263 (ISSN 1470-8477). “This paper … isolates the rationale for the existence of a multilingual radio station, RADIO-i, and examines why its listeners prefer it to a monolingual alternative.”
- ^ Guide for Earthquake Disaster Preparedness. Disaster Management Office of Nagoya University.
- ^ Information for International Students. Nagoya University Education Center for International Students.
- ^ In time of Disaster. Radio-i website. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ Asian radio programming. Sorensen Media Group.
