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A LOOK AT BAHA'I RADIO

Mar 31, 2002

A few weeks ago I received an email about a Baha'i radio web cast. This led me to investigate Baha'i radio and related subjects for an article here on Suite 101. I have to admit that some of the research took a bit of time, which will explain, at least in part, the lateness of this month's article.

BAHAI RADIO

This site is located at: http://www.bahairadio.org and contains information about Payam-e-Doost Radio Broadcasting on both AM and short wave. The site also has the programs archived as well as the complete opening of The Mount Carmel Terraces: The Official Opening Ceremony. All programs are in Persian. It does contain a link to http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/terraces/w... but I must let you know that the down load time is quite long, even for the low quality.

An article on Radio Baha'i Ecuador can be found at: http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/000089-1.h... . This is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Baha'i Radio endeavors.

Baha'i Perspectives Radio Program is an Internet program that is broadcast weekly at 1:30 GMT on Thursday and repeated every two hours thereafter until 1:30 the next day. This broadcast is on ACB Radio (American Council for the Blind). The web site for Baha'i Perspectives Radio Program can be found at: http://www.bahai-perspectives.org . They have a link to ACB Radio and have the programs archived. They can either be listened to on the web or downloaded.

Another Baha'i Radio station is WLGI, 90.9 FM. It broadcasts for the Louis Gregory Baha'i Institute in Hemingway, SC. It is a 50,000 watt station and serves a large part of South Carolina. It has been in operation for 17 years. Here is a partial quote from an article found at: http://www.capital.net/~bahai/schenectad... , "Amid the musical programming, Baha'u'llah's words (along with readings from the Bible and other sacred texts) can be heard on WLGI, whose signal spans eastern South Carolina, touching metropolitan Charleston and the resorts of Myrtle Beach, and reaches into North Carolina as well." One of WLGI's future goals is to broadcast on the Internet, but this has not happened yet.

Last, but certainly not least is a Baha'i Webcast Radio Station called WebCast9. While it is still in the "test mode" it is on line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To check it out for yourself, just put the following address in the play location on winamp or in the location line in RealAudio. I have not had any luck with Windows Media Player. Here is the address:

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2. Apr 4, 2002 9:46 AM
In response to message posted by Dan_Ellsworth:

Hi Dan, thanks, as always, for the kind words. I try to present aspects of the Baha' ...

-- posted by justin_credible

1. Apr 2, 2002 12:37 PM
I would not have guessed there was a 50,000-watt Baha'i radio station anywhere in the U.S.A. If you had told me that much, I don't think South Carolina would have been in my first nine guesses. WLGI ...

-- posted by Dan_Ellsworth

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