Ghana’s best and innovative campus radio station, KTU Radio joins other leading international radio stations to mark World Radio Day slated for Thursday, February 13, 2025.
February 13 is a date proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ‘to celebrate radio broadcast, improve international cooperation among radio broadcasters and encourage decision-makers to create and provide access to information through radio, including community radios’.
Significantly, World Radio Day is ‘an occasion to draw attention to the unique value of radio, which remains the medium to reach the widest audience and is currently taking up new technological forms and devices’.
‘UNESCO encourages all countries to celebrate this Day by undertaking activities with diverse partners, such as national, regional and international broadcasting associations and organisations, non-governmental organizations, media organizations, outlets as well as the public at large’.
In view of the focus of this year’s celebration, UNESCO invited interested media organisations around the world to provide relevant information that will aid them to create a common digital platform for media managers.
KTU Radio’s application was accepted by UNESCO and the station has now been listed alongside other major global radio stations on the UNESCO website. https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-radio/ktu-radio
‘The platform is big. It presents a huge opportunity not only for the campus radio station (KTU Radio) but the entire Koforidua Technical University community to learn and also share good stories about the institution. It further extends our institutional linkages, and demonstrates our commitment to community engagement through the power of radio’, KTU Radio Manager, Daniel Ofosu (radio name Kasatintin) commented.
Overall, UNESCO will offer a networking experience for all participating radio stations and also provide some useful resources to celebrate 2025 World Radio Day.
‘We will make the best use of this opportunity’, Mr Ofosu added ‘UNESCO implores us to make this year’s World Radio Day special by exchanging ideas, material and stories with a radio station from another country, inviting each other on air, sharing programmes, discussing longer-term collaborations among others, and we will do everything possible to achieve this objective’.
SOURCE: KTU Radio
