Políticas de comunicación para el desarrollo y sostenibilidad de radios comunitarias en el Ecuador.

Abstract

This academic article is based on analyzing how community radio stations, through communication policies, manage or fail to develop as a non-profit broadcasting media at the national level. These community media tend to be sustained with the support of the same groups or associations that promoted them. This interaction responds to a collective growth around the organization, education and dissemination of local information. Likewise, we seek to determine how the reforms of the Organic Law of Communication affect community radio stations, using the Delphi model to determine the degree of impact that the law has had on their sustainability through surveys to community radio stations nationwide, in addition to interviewing experts in communication policies and alternative radio stations who contributed with their experience both in the professional and academic fields, giving us as a result a close reality faced by community radio stations. With the results obtained, a series of figures were generated that allow a better understanding of the data obtained through the research, thus detailing the different scenarios that limit community radio stations