Community Radio, Funding and Ethics

Introduction Community radio is defined as being a being a notfor-profit radio station, run primarily by volunteers, drawn from the community that the radio station is targeting as its audience. This might be a geographical community, for example a small town or village, for example FOD Radio, in the Forest of Dean, a rural area of west England in the UK, or it might be a community of interest, for example Takeover Radio, in the city of Leicester in the UK, which defines as its community, young people under 18 years old. The size of the area will be dependent on the local topography and the power of the transmitter. In the UK this will typically be about a 5 km radius. However in a larger and less densely populated country, such as Australia, where transmitter power may be higher, community stations broadcast to extensive remote and rural areas, as well as wide suburban and urban districts.