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RADIO UNILAG 103.1FM
The journey of campus broadcasting in Nigeria dates back to 1982, when Prof Ralph Akinfeleye called for the establishment of an educational radio station for the university of Lagos. The then head of dept of Mass communication unilag, Prof Alfred Opubor took up the college and wrote to the federal ministry of information and communication for radio license.
The university did not get radio license until d eventual media deregulation policy of 1992.
The license was grated in feb 2002, twenty years after the university applied for it. The frequency of 103.1fm was assigned to the university in july 2003 and the station was officially commissioned on the 14th of Dec 2004 by former Vice President Alh Atiku Abubakar.
Unilag Fm is on the mainland of Lagos city, 7th floor, senate building yaba, lagos mainland, Lagos Nigeria. Inside the university of lagos campus.
The station is conceived as an inter-alia as a laboratory for the training of students in broadcast journalism in a ever expanding competitive job market. Its designed with a local, rather than regional or national character; for strong economic reasons, concentrate on large degree and interest of listeners in the immediate neighbourhood because of its limited resources, as a result of transformation in new technology, market forces and public taste; the station is expected to be considerably broad when fully operation.
Unilag Fm is a specialised station and community oriented, it plans to employ niche programming for its niche audience.
To achieve its objectives, sustainability is fundamental so unilag fm is projected at two different market
(1) The Listeners market as a journalistic product.
(2) To the advertising market as an advertising medium.
The station is managed by a co-ordinator that reports to the vice chancellor, through a ten member management board. The management board submits to the vice chancellor a quarterly reports report and through same process an annual reports to the university's governing council.
Its the terms and references of the board that covers the development of strategies for making the station an effective, educational service delivery medium and an effective training group for the students in mass comm, English, Electrical and Electronic engineering and allied disciplines.
Its responsibilities also include the generation of revenue on sustainable basis.
The board controls in developing guidelines in the quality and content of the station programmes.
The University’s radio station, UNILAG 103.1 FM, the first by any University in Nigeria was established in 2004, to provide new experiences for students especially in relevant disciplines such as Mass Communication, Physics, Electronics, Distance Learning. It was also to increase the educational opportunities available to the wider community. The station since its inception has performed this role creditably and done so much in expanding the frontiers of knowledge.
And its slogan is: where possibilities are created and dreams fulfilled.
Unilag fm has its own objectives, and they are:
1) To optimize instructional and educational opportunities available to Nigerians in order to facilitate sustainable human development in Nigeria.
2)To serve as an authoritative channel of instructional and educational programmes for tertiary level students and other students and adults seeking knowledge in order to improve themselves.
3) To provide for school, to engage in appropriate research that can advance the knowledge and practice of radio broadcasting and communication.
Programmes Content includes:
1) GENERAL INTEREST: i: Matters arising, ii) know your constitution, iii) Africa in progress, iv)nature's cardinal, v) financial matters, vi) Down memoryy lane, vii) Ladder to success, viii) Tax matters.
2) EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES: i) Science world, ii) children's educational programmes, iii) Distance learning institute (DLI)
3) NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMES: i) News broadcast, ii) News analysis.
4) HEALTH PROGRAMMES: i) Health focus, ii) Doctors in the house, iii) Fitness and lifestyle, iv) Gourmet guide with lydia.
5) Sports Programmes: i) Sports reports, ii) sports panorama, iii) Road map to champions league final, iv) Unveiling the next stars, v) sunday sports.
6) YOUTH Programmes: I) Watagwan(pot-pourri of music, entertainment news) ii) Flava, iii) One touch, iv) Mass Link, v) The counsellor.
7) MUSIC PROGRAMMES: 1) Back track, ii) Old school, iii) Top 10 countdown, iv) Back in track with sento, v) Naija top 10.
8) RELIGIOUS Programmes: I) Islam and you, ii) Labourers hour, iii) Christianity and you.
9) FRENCH PROGRAMMES: I) News in french, ii) Traditional musicale, iii) carrifour francophone, iv) L' atualite de la semaine, v) Decouverte.
(All reports gotten by exclusively by me through Unilag fm News Editor: Mr Tayo Takuro.)
The journey of campus broadcasting in Nigeria dates back to 1982, when Prof Ralph Akinfeleye called for the establishment of an educational radio station for the university of Lagos. The then head of dept of Mass communication unilag, Prof Alfred Opubor took up the college and wrote to the federal ministry of information and communication for radio license.
The university did not get radio license until d eventual media deregulation policy of 1992.
The license was grated in feb 2002, twenty years after the university applied for it. The frequency of 103.1fm was assigned to the university in july 2003 and the station was officially commissioned on the 14th of Dec 2004 by former Vice President Alh Atiku Abubakar.
Unilag Fm is on the mainland of Lagos city, 7th floor, senate building yaba, lagos mainland, Lagos Nigeria. Inside the university of lagos campus.
The station is conceived as an inter-alia as a laboratory for the training of students in broadcast journalism in a ever expanding competitive job market. Its designed with a local, rather than regional or national character; for strong economic reasons, concentrate on large degree and interest of listeners in the immediate neighbourhood because of its limited resources, as a result of transformation in new technology, market forces and public taste; the station is expected to be considerably broad when fully operation.
Unilag Fm is a specialised station and community oriented, it plans to employ niche programming for its niche audience.
To achieve its objectives, sustainability is fundamental so unilag fm is projected at two different market
(1) The Listeners market as a journalistic product.
(2) To the advertising market as an advertising medium.
The station is managed by a co-ordinator that reports to the vice chancellor, through a ten member management board. The management board submits to the vice chancellor a quarterly reports report and through same process an annual reports to the university's governing council.
Its the terms and references of the board that covers the development of strategies for making the station an effective, educational service delivery medium and an effective training group for the students in mass comm, English, Electrical and Electronic engineering and allied disciplines.
Its responsibilities also include the generation of revenue on sustainable basis.
The board controls in developing guidelines in the quality and content of the station programmes.
The University’s radio station, UNILAG 103.1 FM, the first by any University in Nigeria was established in 2004, to provide new experiences for students especially in relevant disciplines such as Mass Communication, Physics, Electronics, Distance Learning. It was also to increase the educational opportunities available to the wider community. The station since its inception has performed this role creditably and done so much in expanding the frontiers of knowledge.
And its slogan is: where possibilities are created and dreams fulfilled.
Unilag fm has its own objectives, and they are:
1) To optimize instructional and educational opportunities available to Nigerians in order to facilitate sustainable human development in Nigeria.
2)To serve as an authoritative channel of instructional and educational programmes for tertiary level students and other students and adults seeking knowledge in order to improve themselves.
3) To provide for school, to engage in appropriate research that can advance the knowledge and practice of radio broadcasting and communication.
Programmes Content includes:
1) GENERAL INTEREST: i: Matters arising, ii) know your constitution, iii) Africa in progress, iv)nature's cardinal, v) financial matters, vi) Down memoryy lane, vii) Ladder to success, viii) Tax matters.
2) EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES: i) Science world, ii) children's educational programmes, iii) Distance learning institute (DLI)
3) NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMES: i) News broadcast, ii) News analysis.
4) HEALTH PROGRAMMES: i) Health focus, ii) Doctors in the house, iii) Fitness and lifestyle, iv) Gourmet guide with lydia.
5) Sports Programmes: i) Sports reports, ii) sports panorama, iii) Road map to champions league final, iv) Unveiling the next stars, v) sunday sports.
6) YOUTH Programmes: I) Watagwan(pot-pourri of music, entertainment news) ii) Flava, iii) One touch, iv) Mass Link, v) The counsellor.
7) MUSIC PROGRAMMES: 1) Back track, ii) Old school, iii) Top 10 countdown, iv) Back in track with sento, v) Naija top 10.
8) RELIGIOUS Programmes: I) Islam and you, ii) Labourers hour, iii) Christianity and you.
9) FRENCH PROGRAMMES: I) News in french, ii) Traditional musicale, iii) carrifour francophone, iv) L' atualite de la semaine, v) Decouverte.
(All reports gotten by exclusively by me through Unilag fm News Editor: Mr Tayo Takuro.)
