ORS Community Radio

Bio

The Orkonerei Radio Service, popularly known as ORS community radio, is headquartered in Terrat village (Terrat ward) in Simanjiro district. The village is about 90 km south east of Arusha city. The radio was initially owned by the Institute of the Orkonerei Pastoralist Advancement (IOPA) which is a voluntary community membership organization started in 1991 but from 2009 the ownership of the radio was transferred to ORMAME.

The radio broadcasts sixteen hours per day on FM 94.4 MHz from 7:00AM to 11:00PM, which is suitable with the current equipment used by the Maasai population as radio receptor. The programming consist of a good mix of news and current affairs, debate on local issues and with messages interlinked with music taking up one third of the total programs: 30 % greetings and community messages, 28 % discussion and educational programs on local issues, 20 % news and sport (of this 10 % in Kimaasai), 12 % music programs and 10% religious programs.

TZArusha, Tanzania

Contact

+255787402865
ORS Radio
Profile added by In-house East Africa on 31 Mar 2015
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