Radio Salaam Shalom
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Radio Salaam Shalom was a Bristol
-based online radio station staffed by a volunteer team mainly from the Jewish and Muslim communities of the city. It launched on 1 February 2007.
The project was seen as the UK's first Muslim-Jewish initiative of this type and emphasised the voice of the “moderate majority”. Its programmes gave people from both communities the chance to celebrate, debate and share the events, issues and faith that shape their daily lives.
One of its most innovative features was an open invitation to its global listeners to submit their own podcast
s from around the world for inclusion in its broadcasts.
A project of Salaam Shalom Ltd, a registered charity, the service relied entirely on donations and funding rather than advertising.
The project began in 2006 with technical support from Bristol Community FM and was granted start-up funding by the UK
Home Office
Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund, the Clore Duffield Foundation and the Community Development Foundation.
It celebrated its first year of broadcasting in February 2008 with the station's first intercultural musical evening, featuring Chai4two, the Sweet Easy Peelers, traditional Jewish Hazzan singing and the sharing of the Adhaan, the Muslim call to prayer, by an Imam.
Radio Salaam Shalom was selected as a media partner for the UK events of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and was also chosen as an example of Best Practice by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. It was also selected as a project of special significance by the UK Government Office (South West).
It received coverage on many of the world's biggest broadcast networks, including NHK (Japan), RAI2 (Italy), BBC WORLD, BBCTV, CBC (Canada), CHANNEL 4 (UK), TRIPLE J (Australia), PRESS TV (Iran) and AL JAZEERA ENGLISH amongst others.
A new series of Jewish-Muslim podcasts was launched in September 2008 and made available for download via iTunes and the station's website.
Significant changes in the project's funding and management situation led to a quiet period from March to December 2010 when it rebranded as a training project called Salaam Shalom Media.
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
-based online radio station staffed by a volunteer team mainly from the Jewish and Muslim communities of the city. It launched on 1 February 2007.
The project was seen as the UK's first Muslim-Jewish initiative of this type and emphasised the voice of the “moderate majority”. Its programmes gave people from both communities the chance to celebrate, debate and share the events, issues and faith that shape their daily lives.
One of its most innovative features was an open invitation to its global listeners to submit their own podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
s from around the world for inclusion in its broadcasts.
A project of Salaam Shalom Ltd, a registered charity, the service relied entirely on donations and funding rather than advertising.
The project began in 2006 with technical support from Bristol Community FM and was granted start-up funding by the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Home Office
Home Office
The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security, and order. As such it is responsible for the police, UK Border Agency, and the Security Service . It is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such as drugs,...
Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund, the Clore Duffield Foundation and the Community Development Foundation.
It celebrated its first year of broadcasting in February 2008 with the station's first intercultural musical evening, featuring Chai4two, the Sweet Easy Peelers, traditional Jewish Hazzan singing and the sharing of the Adhaan, the Muslim call to prayer, by an Imam.
Radio Salaam Shalom was selected as a media partner for the UK events of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and was also chosen as an example of Best Practice by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. It was also selected as a project of special significance by the UK Government Office (South West).
It received coverage on many of the world's biggest broadcast networks, including NHK (Japan), RAI2 (Italy), BBC WORLD, BBCTV, CBC (Canada), CHANNEL 4 (UK), TRIPLE J (Australia), PRESS TV (Iran) and AL JAZEERA ENGLISH amongst others.
A new series of Jewish-Muslim podcasts was launched in September 2008 and made available for download via iTunes and the station's website.
Significant changes in the project's funding and management situation led to a quiet period from March to December 2010 when it rebranded as a training project called Salaam Shalom Media.