![]() ![]() ![]() They sell a radio and they put a special chip in it: Wherever LiteFM goes, they are able to listen to our station too, but they need to buy the radio from us.” In Pa Nou’s front office, there are boxes of those radios for sale, each one modified to pick up their signal. “So you have a station - let's say like 101.9 LiteFM - they broadcast throughout the Tri-State area. Jeffery Joseph, the operations manager at Radyo Pa Nou explains how it works: ![]() One option is perfectly legal: the subcarrier station. Haitian immigrants have brought that radio culture with them to the US, where they’ve encountered a system of media regulation that has few options for small-scale broadcasters. Thirty years after the fall of Duvalier, radio remains the dominant form of media in Haiti, where it can cross the country’s mountainous terrain, speak directly to the significant illiterate population, and serve up the perfect mix of music, politics and religious programming. Even though Haiti was poor, people were saving money to buy the little radio.” People would go under the bed and listen to radio programs, to listen to words of hope about one day ending this nightmare. As Dupuy remembers: “People had radios hidden, in the kitchen, in the bathroom. “There is something called the ‘Transistor Revolution,’” he explains.ĭuring the long reign of the Duvalier family (from 1957 to 1986), when all political opposition in Haiti was brutally silenced, radio was a unique space for dissent. According to Ricot Dupuy, Haitians’ love of radio is rooted in politics: ![]()
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