PODCAST: JAMAICA – New Technologies Extend Life and “Mobility” of Radio

By IPS Correspondents Reprint | | Print |

The last broadcast antenna installed in Kingston in the 1990s by Power 106 FM, a subsidiary of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper. Credit:Zadie Neufville/IPS

Mar 3 2012 (IPS) - Radio remains Jamaica’s most effective and fastest growing communications medium. From four stations in the late 1990s, Jamaicans today are able to access more than 70 stations – 30 of them are owned and operated on the island.

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