OPINIONISTA: Survivor lockdown story: Music radio station strikes a chord to bring harmony into storm-tossed lives

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Media globally are in crisis, and the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the industry hard. Fine Music Radio, a plucky Cape-Town based community radio station, is attempting to weather the storm through loyal listener support.

in the aftermath of World War 1, and interesting for our times as the poem is connected to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. As Covid-19 envelops its tentacles around the globe, the loss of lives, income and normality has kicked us off-centre. So where do we find our balance and seek a positivity bias, without becoming Pollyanna in a mask with blinkers?is the only radio station in the Western Cape that plays classical music and jazz.

Broadcasting from the now empty Artscape Theatre Centre on Cape Town’s Foreshore, the team is all too aware of the lockdown implications for not only the station but the industry as a whole.daily events calendar has simply replaced live with virtual events. The station has offered public service announcements to numerous organisations including the Theatre Benevolent Fund, feeding schemes and NGO health institutions.

“‘Unprecedented’ has become the buzzword when describing the pandemic, however we’re grateful it can now be used in a positive context. We believe this display of audience loyalty is unprecedented in the history of broadcasting in South Africa. The messages we receive all have a similar sentiment. In this time of uncertainty,is keeping listeners sane. The music, which has survived for centuries, continues to provide nourishment and sustenance. There is a perfect anecdote to illustrate this.

The majority of people will, thankfully, never experience the salvation music offers on death row. But in our non-equitable society when disaster strikes we all have vastly different resources to deal with the crisis and aftermath.is not claiming to be society’s elixir. Their mandate is to offer calm in the chaos and play the world’s most beautiful music.transformative; a simple FM radio can unlock concert halls with virtuosi performers.

 

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