A DESPARETE mother phoned to a live devotion presentation on Radio Maranatha in Kabwe, her voice was that of panic seeking immediate attention.
“Is that Radio Maranatha? I have a prayer request to make, please pastor, pray for my son, he has been missing from home, he said he was going to commit suicide, we have searched everywhere, we can’t find him, friends and family are out there looking for him as I speak now, please pray for him,” she mourned.
The pastor, who was live on that radio station, begun by addressing the missing young man, calling his name and beseeching him not to commit suicide, telling him about God’s love and assuring him that other listeners tuned to the radio station were ready to help him in anyway.
Fate as it was, that live radio conversation reached the young man in his hiding place and compelled him to abandon his dire intentions, and he walked to the studio. He is alive today.
That testimony was presented by Radio Maranatha station manager Nalumino Nalumino at Ndola Central Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church last week.
Radio Maranatha is an SDA-run radio station in Kabwe and, like other Christian broadcasts, not only has the station introduced listeners to Christ, but saved a life too. What can be a greater objective for radio than that!
RCV
It was a moving broadcasting of fallen B3 gospel artiste Marvin Kasomo on Radio Christian Voice (RCV).
His obituary told on that radio station was so rich in that Choolwe Mweemba featured people who had personally known Marvin in describing who he was.
Mark Kasomo, being Marvin’s surviving twin brother said: “Life would be hard without my brother who I have never separated from since childhood.”
His pastor and other friends remembered Marvin’s commitment and his desire for perfection to everything he touched.
Chella Silwamba is ever inspiring on his Money Matters programme every Monday morning with last week’s challenge to the youths to be more innovative and create jobs for themselves.
Much as school is significant in their lives, he said they would do well to go an extra mile to identify ‘do-it-yourself’ projects.
ZNBC
Norman Tembo on his Radio Farm Forum last week featured an enterprising youth Peter Ntaimo who at 19 managers to sponsor himself through farming.
Ntaimo from Kasempa District in North-Western Province has a two-hectare piece of land where he grows maize, sorghum, millet and beans for self-reliance and helps his mother support other siblings.
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Leonard Chibasa still remains the best radio soccer commentator in Zambia. He projects his voice well in a favourable tone. He is accurate, confident and specific on activities on and around the pitch.
Chibasa acquitted himself well during the Zambia/Uganda game last Wednesday, March 5, at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium and was equally good on Saturday March 8 when Zesco beat Ferroviario of Mozambique 1-nill at the same stadium.
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Ormond Musonda came under fire from listeners who thought his report on breakfast show that youths in Solwezi were so irresponsible that they deserted work from the mines upon receiving salaries which they used to buy bicycles.
PHOENIX
Those familiar with Helpline jingle on Radio Phoenix recognise the tantalising voice appealing to listeners for donations that are in turn given to the needy.
We, however, hear a different voice that seems to have replaced the former, the earlier was more appealing.
ICENGELO
Radio Icengelo’s Rhoda Tembo is also known as ‘Original Mama Africa’.
Imagine her rapping through her presentation in chi-Bemba and said:
“Bana Mayo tukane icimupashi chakupumwa” (Women should reject the spirit on being battered.
TIPS
In radio programme production, there were two equalising standards that were used in tape recording.
Where equalisation could be adjusted, it was adjusted to correspond with the equalisation characteristic of the original recording.
Tape copying was a good practice to make copies at twice the normal speed although this reduced the copying time.
Special recorders were used for high-speed copying and those were so designed as to preserve the fidelity of the original recording.
High-speed copying on ordinary machines caused distortion.
Care needed to be taken to avoid the tape twisting when respooling. A badly twisted tape, even though untwisted, would cause drop-outs or slight loss of programme material.
Small particles of iron filings adhered to the coated surface of the tape and blocked the gaps of the tape heads.
It was not good practice to leave tape out of its containers as it collected iron filings from the air.
The rise in temperature brought about by the sun impressed a recorded signal on the tape so that it became difficult to erase it completely.
Dubb-editing meant editing by copying the tape and leaving out or inserting additional passages. When dubb-editing made sure that the two machines used were cleaned and demagnetised.
Copying always led to a rise in the background noise; this was less noticeable with a well-serviced machine.
Cut-editing was a physical process of cutting out unwanted passages and joining the tape together with a special pressure adhesive splicing tape.
If ordinary adhesive tape was used for splicing the joints, it was likely to become sticky after a short time, particularly in the tropics, and would ruin the whole tape.
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