Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting.
KRBX Radio Boise volunteers during the station's Spring Radiothon in 2013—direct community support is critical for such local media.
Community radio station & newspaper office side by side in regional (Young), New South Wales
Workshop for Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communications staffs
Princesa FM of Ponta Grossa, southern Brazil an example of CR. As indicated the frequency is 87.9 MHz, one of the most common tunings intended for this type of radio in this country.
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum, in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers. Before this, most implementations of electronic communication were one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. The term broadcasting evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about. It was later adopted for describing the widespread distribution of information by printed materials or by telegraph. Examples applying it to "one-to-many" radio transmissions of an individual station to multiple listeners appeared as early as 1898.
A broadcasting antenna in Stuttgart
A television studio production control room in Olympia, Washington, August 2008
An "On Air" sign is illuminated, usually in red, while a broadcast or recording session is taking place.
Radio Maria studio in Switzerland