A Rough Overview on FM Stations in Addis
Posted by akamjirta on June 10, 2008
A Rough Overview on FM Stations in Addis
I would love to make a pre-notification on what you are going to read. We all know we, Ethiopians, don’t really want to hear “bad bamboo-jumbo” of whatever we do. Who does actually?
Is not over a decade (8 years only) since the first station on FM band ( FM Addis on 97.1MHZ) was found by the government. Obviously FM stations are headaches for AM ones. (The national radio station even started to transmit on FM band.) Thanks to the almighty we now have a finger count of those.
FM Addis 97.1, Fana FM 98.1, Sheger FM 102.1, Zami FM 90.7, FM 96.9 are some among the whole and the usually tuned ones.
Basically, FM stations are known for local & critical information and all rounded entertainment some to mention YEBEKAL (focusing on HIV/AIDS), IRIE (music), ADDIS ZEMA (Music), SAMINTU BETARIK WUST ( The week within history), soccer chat (on all stations), CHEWATA (guest interview, music & narration) some like SHEGER 102.1 got their own style of presentation like writing. They prefer to talk of things in the old fashioned way like they say WORE instead of ZENA. They may even use obsolete words.
There are some program presenters who are up to the work like Dagmawi Tariku & Fiseha Tegen (both now in abroad), Meaza Birru, Teferi Alemu, Getachew Manguday, Abiy Teklemariam(all ‘football first’ members though I don’t like soccer) . There are some to the contrary, not knowing of what they are doing. There are some programs ‘best conceived ideas’ and ‘not yet shall be born’ types. Ethiopiacal links is one of those. The program is like a nasty detective acting like in a weird way. The most boring thing about them is that they try to take you in labyrinth suspense almost to tell nothing. There are some having large magnificent boat in the middle of a sea but run out of fuel. Addis Zema Saturday night live party used to be one among the weekly expected @ 9:00PM through 12: 00AM. Seifu Fantahun is a funny idol to this program. Unfortunately he started talent search & ceased it after a while. Later he made the public hallucinate saying this song is a copy of this one. The public tolerated him till he touched Teddy Afro who is considered as first born child to the art world in Ethiopia.
Generally speaking, it’s a good start but needs baby sitting since media is a wind sailing boat, can take anywhere since all are destinations. “Press Law” is the wheel but without trend captain who can foresee before the compass…is what all seem wander to have.
