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This article investigates the role that community media play in the translocal negotiation of local culture in Latin America. Translocal is a concept that captures the way that local cultural producers engage with national and transnational forces in shaping everyday cultural practices. This study focuses on community radio station Ecos de Manantlán in Zapotitlán de Vadillo, Mexico (Radio Zapotitlán), during the years 2006–2012. Radio Zapotitlán is officially categorized as a campesino or agricultural laborer/peasant station and presents its campesino identity through radio and Internet content. Analyses of that content, along with interviews with station associates and listeners, reveal the complex cultural mediations between local media producers, national regulators, and transnational donors. This study investigates the local production of a transnationally funded radionovela, or radio soap opera, as a window onto the station’s role as a cultural mediator. This article argues that station participants used the radionovela to express local values and meanings and to marginalize the educational goals of the transnational agency funding the project. Radio Zapotitlán offers a concrete case of cultural negotiation in which local interests engage with – and transform – donor-funded content aimed at the local community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the aspect of the shifting media environment, that is, hyperlocal media operations (HLMOs). It proposes a definition and criteria for evaluating HLMO based on existing literature and examples of current usage. The definition has been based on six operations considered as exemplars of the hyperlocal prototype. These are geographic elements, community orientation, original news reporting, origins on the web, filling perceived gaps, and civic engagement. These six components of the definition have been applied to operations broadly deemed as representative of the ill-defined genre.

The article focuses on the radio station All India Radio (AIR) in India. It states that AIR was once named as Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) in 1930. It says that the India's first development plan for its media and broadcasting was launched in April 1951. It mentions the development in the AIR includes the start of the Yuva Vani service for the youth, broadcasting designed for the improvement of agriculture, and the thrust to programmes aimed to control the population, health, and hygiene. Moreover, several challenges faced by the radio station including the lack of personnel training, the union government controls the broadcasting in India, and competition from other broadcast modes such as television are cited.