Radio4all.net
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| URL | radio4all.net |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Registration | optional |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Content license | Non-commercial |
| Owner | Lyn Gerry |
| Launched | October 1996 |
| Alexa rank |  481,739 (March 2012[update])[1] |
The A-Infos Radio Project was formed in October 1996 by Lyn Gerry and other grassroots broadcasters, free radio journalists and cyber-activists to provide the means to share radio programs via the Internet. Programs are typically submitted from "Independent or Alternative media", which refers to a form of media that is free of influence by government or corporate interests (ie. "mainstream media.").
The A-Infos audio internet archive began in response to a reorganisation of the Pacifica radio station that eliminated many of its more controversial programmers.[2] The project's goal is to support and expand the movement for democratic communications worldwide by offering an alternative to the concentration of corporate media outlets and perspectives.
The A-Infos Radio Project was the first grassroots media project of its kind on the internet to allow free upload and download of programs, and has attracted a wide variety of audio material. The focus remains on public domain radio programmes from various perspectives and often of an alternative political nature. Programs address both local and global issues and perspectives vary substantially, but the most often included are environmentalism, socialism, humanitarianism and anarchism. Lyn Gerry has stated that Radio4All.net is operated exclusively by volunteers on an occasional basis and that the decision not to censor any material was mainly pragmatic.[3]
The archive currently has programs from over 4,000 producers and in March, 2011 it passed 50,000 programs. As a 100% non-commercial operation, it relies on donations and in former years the site has had occasional outages and download speed has been limited.
[edit] See also
- Internet activism
- Independent Media
- Concentration of media ownership
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Mainstream media
- Media bias
- Media democracy
- Media imperialism
[edit] References
- ^ "Radio4all.net Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/Radio4all.net. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
- ^ "Listserv forms Backbone of National Free Radio Network". http://www.roguecom.com/rogueradio/hardwarehandshake.html. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
- ^ MP3 Interview Skidmark Bob interviews Lyn Gerry about A-Infos Radio Project
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