At Breeze FM, even some of the news bulletins are sponsored, which again raises impartiality issues, though the station manager insisted, “This does not make the sponsor immune to coverage, good or bad, and we make that very clear in our contract.”. As the economic profiles above show, radio stations do not necessarily make distinctions between the private sector, the public sector,and nonprofit organizations. A new era in broadcasting, in journalism and in popular culture and advertising had begun in Uganda.  =  The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Its income in 2018 was roughly 235 million UGX ($63,941). However, these kinds of income-generating activities rarely, if ever, are big moneymakers: in the case of Radio Mano, peanut sales generate just 0.02 percent of its annual income. So the competition from the internet is not a burning issue, yet. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Your email address will not be published. Not dependent upon grant funding, but instead financed substantially by advertising and/or other private sector support or commercial sponsorship. For Mama FM, this means developing programs of special interest to women. Thanks also go to all of our other interviewees who gave us their time and insights and to Paul Kavuma, Simon Davison, and Sam Muyonga. All radio streams and radio stations at one glance. Knowledge Management/Learning and Digital … Listen online to CBS Radio Buganda using your smart phone, computer, or tablet. UNESCO,“Empowering Local Radios with ICTS:Uganda,” https://en.unesco.org/radioict/countries/uganda. The stations are Mama FM, Tembo FM, Speak FM, and Voice of Kigezi (VOK) in Uganda; Breeze FM, Phoenix FM, Radio Icengelo, and RadioMano in Zambia. It also relies to some extent on volunteers. At least five of our cases had previously participated in similar courses offered by NGOs.32 Where the sales and marketing operations were already quite efficient, like at VOK, the stations did not express a desire for further support. Listen to all stations from Kampala for free now on radio.net. VOK launched in 1999 and has since built an audience of up to 3 million, partly by starting with a powerful transmitter (3kW) before restrictions on transmitter strength were introduced (1kW is the current limit for new FM radio stations). The top DJs like DJ Berry, Peter Sematimba, Rasta Rob MC, Gloria Kamba and Alex Ndawula became household names, better known than most cabinet ministers and national sports stars. article19.org/resources/uganda-ban-on-live-coverage- limits-access-to-information/; Reporters WithoutBorders, 2019, “Zambia: Outspoken Zambian TV Channel Suspended for 30 Days,” March 12, 2019, https://rsf. By “donor,” we exclude local sources of finance from our meaning, for example philanthropic donations by local business people, which we classify as community funding. Those that we consider “donor-dependent” would close or severely strip-down within a year if external donors stopped funding the station.5 Such donor support includes financial and other in-kind or training assistance provided by organizations (governmental, religious, charitable, or nongovernmental) based outside of the locality in which the outlet operates. Internet Radio Uganda lists all top online radio stations from Uganda. We thank our dedicated research team—Emily Arayo, Louis Davison, Mwendalubi Maumbi, and Martin Ssemakula—with special mention of Dr. Martin Scott of the University of East Anglia (UK), who made important inputs both to the research design and to the shape of this report. Beaten to it, Pike and Quarcoo scrambled resources and at the last minute also registered and set up Radio Kampala Limited, which came to be known as Capital Radio.