Manaus - In 1995 Brazil discovered community radio, in the format of free radio. There are currently a large number of such broadcasters. The numbers are controversial: for some 5,500, for another 7,000, but there are estimates that speak of the existence of 10,000 broadcasters in the country. They dared to initiate “land reform on the air”, while in Parliament, legislative proposals for low-power broadcasting were discussed, with a visible delay in relation to the social demands for the sector.
It was something unprecedented in the country's history, not as a free radio experience, whose pioneerism dates back to the early seventies, but due to the high number of broadcasters demonstrating a willingness to occupy the waves, in an open challenge to the exclusive control of the media. of mass communication.
It was something unprecedented in the country's history, not as a free radio experience, whose pioneerism dates back to the early seventies, but due to the high number of broadcasters demonstrating a willingness to occupy the waves, in an open challenge to the exclusive control of the media. of mass communication.
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