I heard about this station on Thom Hartmann because the station has added two hours of Hartmann's talk show.
Vincent Schilling, February 17, 2011
Dakota Talk Radio KDKO 89.5 FM, has only been a radio station on the internet for the past four years, but in a matter of weeks, the Native radio station will be hitting the FM airwaves serving the communities surrounding Lake Andes, South Dakota. From the onset, KDKO will be tackling tough issues such as date rape, drug and alcohol prevention and violence against women addressed by native youth in the form of Public Service Announcements.
Charon Asetoyer, Comanche, is the executive director and CEO of the Native American Community Board, Inc. and the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, the organization that will be running the station. The in-your-face programming, she says, is just another way to share a valuable message that they already tackle on a daily basis. “If most people heard our public service announcements, they would be totally blown away because we’ve got young men and young women talking about how to prevent date rape. Or how to be aware if you have been date raped or what to look for or what signs to look for.”
KDKO-FM
An arrow has hit the broadcasting desert in South Dakota and created an opening for something other than Rush Limbaugh on the high plains.
The station will feature Dakota language broadcasting, as well as addressing cultural issues, promoting the music of Native Americans as well as jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, the music of the disenfranchised.
Frank talk about date rape. Outstanding!
Radio that serves the community. The original idea of the people owning the airwaves done away with during the atrocious years of the Reagan administration and dealt a death coup during the Clinton administration.
Outlandish concepts like the Fairness Doctrine:
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced. The FCC decided to eliminate the Doctrine in 1987, and in August 2011 the FCC formally removed the language that implemented the Doctrine.
The Fairness Doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows, or editorials. The doctrine did not require equal time for opposing views but required that contrasting viewpoints be presented.
The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of viewpoints.
And, if Reagan had not done enough to damage American media, Bill Clinton opened the door to that Fox of the Chickenhouse of American Media, Rupert Murdoch:
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first major overhaul of United States telecommunications law in nearly 62 years, amending the Communications Act of 1934. This Act, signed by President Bill Clinton, was a major stepping stone towards the future of telecommunications, since this was the first time that the Internet was included in broadcasting and spectrum allotment. One of the most highly criticized - and discussed - titles is Title 3 ("Cable Services"), which allowed for media cross-ownership. "The goal of this new law is to let anyone enter any communications business -- to let any communications business compete in any market against any other." Also, the act allowed us to move forward by revising its old rules - based on The Telecommunications Act of 1934. Deregulation of the broadcasting market was the primary goal. Also, the new Telecommunications Act allowed the FCC, and Congress, to "update" the old - and outdated - Telecommunications Act of 1934.
Against the high and mighty, there is now a small voice on the high prairie:
Chaske Rockboy, aka DJ Big Daddy Rock, Yankton Sioux, a powwow singer with the Yankton Sioux Singers and a teacher of songs and historical concepts to the native youth in his community, is a popular DJ at the station.