Radio College Park

Radio College Park is the oldest operational Persian podcast in the world^[1] and a weekly audio program produced by a group of Iranian graduate students at the University of Maryland at College Park. The subjects of the programs of this podcast include science, society, art, entertainment, history, literature, interview, and report. Each program is usually constructed of 1 to 5 parts each produced by one of its collaborators.

History

The idea of Radio College Park started in Spring 2005 when a group of graduate students at the University of Maryland discussed how to create a podcast to share some of their ideas with the other members of the Iranian community at the University of Maryland in particular and the other Persian speakers in the world in general. Finally, the first program of the Radio College Park was broadcast on June 24, 2005.^{[citation needed]} As of November 2011, there are 262 programs published on its website.^{[citation needed]}

Sections

The website of Radio College Park has multiple sections. In its home page, visitor can listen to weekly programs via audio links to the mixed program as well as each individual section. The programs are presented in several audio formats including mp3, RealAudio and zip.^{[citation needed]}

Seasons

The planning for the radio station is performed on a seasonal basis. Each season consists of 13 programs and the interval has a perfect mapping to the seasons of the nature.^{[citation needed]}

Featured Programs

Besides the individual sections, the radio has had a set of programs presented as a series. In the longest series, Amirali produced programs on the cultural- and art- related news of the Washington, DC area, the Metropolitan area where the University of Maryland is located. In another series, graduate students of different schools in the U.S. introduced their own schools, the offered programs and also the Iranian communities on their campuses.^{[citation needed]}

Media coverage

Radio College Park has received some attention in the news media and on the Internet. Also, at end of the Persian year 1384 (late March 2006), Radio College Park was selected as the second best podcast of the year after the podcast of the journalist Masoud Behnoud, in an online poll conducted by the Internet magazine "7-Sang".^{[citation needed]}

References

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External links

Coverage on Weblogs

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