The radio station’s broadcasting capacity has increased from one kilowatt to three kilowatts and is currently broadcasting seven hours a day and 49 hours a week with 16 different programs in the Amharic language. It is planned that there will be broadcasting in Tigrinya and Afar languages as its listening capacity increases. We expect that the broadcasting hours will increase from the current seven hours a day to a full day, and we expect that the broadcasting range will increase from 150 kilometers to 250 kilometers. The community radio station was built with the full support of our university and is named Woldia University Community-Based FM 89.2 Radio Station.

The community radio station received a license from the Broadcasting Authority in 2008. After completing the construction and equipment installation program for two years from 2009 to 2010, it was transferred to trial broadcasting station was in trial broadcasting, it worked for about six months with one manager and two professionals until it met the professional license and staffing requirements, and then it was able to transfer to regular broadcasting by increasing its professional capacity. In this situation, it was working to educate, inform and entertain the community for about three years. In 2014, due to the war that broke out in the northern part of our country, the radio station was looted and destroyed. After two years of postwar reconstruction and equipment installation, in 2016, we completed the in October 2011. While the radio reconstruction and equipment installation work with a budget of 29 million birr and are currently preparing to operate with a three-kilowatt transmitter power by opening a reception in Lalibela city.

Woldia University is happy to have achieved its vision of connecting the university with the community and the community with the university by establishing a higher education community-oriented radio station that provides information to the local community. In general, community radio is a type of broadcasting that is established by a recognized community to meet the information, educational and entertainment needs of the community that are not covered by other government, commercial and broadcasting services. The main basic characteristics that make this community radio unique are that it is able to create a favorable environment for the community to have sufficient knowledge and information on social, economic and political issues, to promote the positive culture and identity of the community through voluntary service rather than paid employees, to encourage development and social change, to enhance the exchange of experiences and learning.