2.4. Community Radio of Huye (RC Huye)
a)
Historical background
The creation of community radios was from 1980, the time of
creation of regional centers for information called «Centres regionaux
d'Informations» (CRI) and the service of DECOR which has the mission of
supervising these community radios. The creation of these radios by the
government was for two principal reasons: The reinforcement of decentralization
policy which privileged the participation of population and to confront private
radios.
According to the presidential decree No 273/61 of
8th August 1978 of, the mission of this service of DECOR was:
-Leading all the regional centers of information,
-Planning the evolution of CRI in kind of infrastructures,
personnel and its improvement,
- Production of radio shows,
-Gathering of news in the area where these radios operate (in
provinces).
The service of DECOR was created after realizing that
government media, especially Radio Rwanda covered events held in the capital
Kigali and the provinces and rural area were not informed. This was confirmed
by the research of Aloys Rukebesha (1985:85) as cited by Muvunyi(2010):
«Since the start, radio broadcasting of Rwanda, tended to broadcast voices
of leaders and they go out side of capital Kigali only to cover events related
to authorities or other activities which implies authorities».
The creation of CRI has come to solve this problem. At the
beginning CRI produced print articles for bimonthly newspaper
«Imvaho» and reportages which were broadcasted to Radio Rwanda the
idea of community radios came after 20 years, after experiencing that people
was short of information. This was to give value to local initiatives by
motivating people to contribute in finding solution to their problems.
Inaugurated on 31st July 2003, RC Huye came to
serve people especially to contribute in educating people and being the channel
between people and authorities to transmit their messages (vice versa).It
represent ORINFOR in differents distritcs in Southern Procince includes: Huye,
Gisagara, Nyanza and Ruhango. It is located behind Huye police station office,
not far from Huye market, behind Ngoma sector. The office of RC Huye is a
simple house of 6 rooms (studio, Technical room, Newsroom, secretariat and
Direction). Apart those 6 rooms, other part is the radio director's
residence.
b)
Structure and Materials
b. 1 Organizational
structure
RC Huye is under supervision of ORINFOR through its service of
DECOR. It is divided in 3 sections: Redaction, free live show (animation and
Production) and technique.
At the top of RC Huye there is the director or chief of Radio
who represent also ORINFOR in this region. He has the task of supervising and
coordinating all activities of radio. Actually ORINFOR doesn't have an official
structure, but after the task of every one we can draw the structure of RC HUYE
as follow:
Administration Council
Direction of ORINFOR
Service of DECOR
RC Huye Director
Secretariat & Accountability
Technique and maintenance
Talk shows and production
News room
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