By Damilola Akinlotan
The Ekiti State chapter of Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU) has felicitated with all Radio Workers and listeners in the state on the occasion of World Radio Day 2023.
The union stated this in a good will message signed by its Chairman Comrade Taiwo Jasper False and made available to newsmen on Monday.
The statement reads; “Today, Monday February 13th 2023 marks the 12th edition of UNESCO’s annual celebration of World Radio Day
(WRD), with the theme “Radio and Peace”.
“The date was proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO to create awareness and celebrate radio broadcasting world wide and the proclamation was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012.”
According to him, “Radio is a powerful tool for sustaining and shaping humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse.
“At the global level, radio remains the most widely consumed medium. This unique ability to reach out to the wide audience means radio can shape a society’s experience of diversity, stand as an arena for all voices to speak out, be represented and heard.
“Radio stations serve diverse communities, offering a wide variety of programs, viewpoints and content, and reflect the diversity of audiences in their organizations and operations.
“Radio continues to be the most trusted and used media in the world, according to different international reports.
“Radio and Peace”is an apt description of the significance and continuing acceptance of radio as
an unequalled and most trusted means of mass media broadcast. It is a tribute to its capacity for
perpetual adaptation to the rhythm of societal transformations and listeners’ new needs in the face
of the monster of fake news through social media, societal strive and terrorism.
“2023 World Radio Day is calling on all radio stations, audio shows and podcasters around the
world to participate, and remind their listeners that radio is part of humanity’s history, adapting to
our lifestyles and dynamic technologies’
