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Yatsani Radio has helped with the licence and funding applications for Radio Yangeni,
Radio Mosi-o-Tunya and Oblate Radio Liseli in the Mansa, Livingstone and Mongu dioceses within Zambia.
All three have sent personnel to spend time at Yatsani Radio. Breeze FM in Chipata is also looking at
the possibility of sending staff to work with Yatsani Radio.
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A member of the staff of Lesotho Catholic Radio worked with Yatsani Radio for a
period of one month before returning to Lesotho.
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As a result of an EU initiative, Yatsani Radio obtained funding from the Swedish
and Royal Danish Embassies. With advice from Signis (Rome) the radio station will set up a
satellite-internet network between the Zambian radio stations for the promotion of good governance.
This will involve 15 radio stations (Catholic and non-denominational) and 5 receiver stations and
will be a ‘first’ in Africa. It will utilize a satellite that was only commissioned in November 2002.
The system will enable all the radio stations concerned to share their programmes, not only
throughout Zambia, but across Africa and Europe. It will be installed, hopefully, in June
2003 and will be operational immediately.
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The late Fr. Patrick Casserley of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
began investigating (at the initiative of the PSSC) the possibility of having personnel from the
Catholic radio stations throughout Africa spend time at Yatsani Radio. His plan was that African
broadcasters could train in Africa rather than outside the Continent.
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Yatsani Radio has an excellent and ongoing relationship with other local radio
stations, especially with Radio Phoenix, Q FM and Breeze FM, with which stations there is a
continuous exchange of ideas. Q FM and Breeze FM are commercial radio stations with committed
Catholic owners. They are, therefore, effectively (in all but name) Catholic radio stations.
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Yatsani Radio makes it a deliberate policy to welcome the personnel of
other existing and incipient radio stations in order that it might share with them the
lessons it has learned.
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