by BiliranIsland.com Staff
BiliranIsland.com
First Posted 17:44:00 02/05/2011
(An editorial)
When the live-stream broadcast of Radyo Natin-Naval went off two weeks ago, some browsers of www.biliranisland.com based abroad asked for the reason of the sudden silence by text message and in some blogged items. We relayed the word and we were informed by the RN staff that the computer monitor that facilitates the live-stream broadcast is out of order and needs replacement. We thought the problem could be addressed promptly, like other broadcast-related problems of RN. But when two weeks had lapsed and the silence remained, we took the initiative of posting the now-controversial note soliciting help that could resume the live-stream broadcast.
A blogger, ichiro, soon wrote that this was a problem that can be addressed by RN without soliciting a donation as proposed by this website. The blog was promptly answered by Michael Aguilos, the RN station manager. He claimed that the live-streaming is a feature of this website and not of the station, and that they do not get anything from this (which was qualified in centavos).
We would like to tell our audience that this website does not also earn from the live-streaming feature; in fact, we spend for this feature, and its expense is shouldered by relatives. But we carry this live-streaming feature because this is much-demanded by Biliranons now based in foreign lands, mostly as OFWs. They need word from home, apart from what they read in this website and its blogged items.
The RN manager said that live-streaming is not their concern, and that their main concern is merely to serve the Biliranons the best way they can. There are certain contradictions and loopholes in this statement. We do not have to sing a pattern of the “May pulis sa ilalim sa tulay” song to tell our point, that the OFW listeners are as much entitled to listen to RN broadcasts as the folks back home – that they support – and who listen to the RN broadcasts (within the station’s physical reach) – with the equipment they bought – and powered with electricity or batteries shouldered by their remittances. They also pay a lot of indirect taxes apart from E-VAT from the purchases of the people they left behind. And some of these taxes go to some offices which pay for their radio programs in RN. Can you still hear the strains of the “May pulis …” tune?
Our Biliranon OFWs are also Biliranons, and they likewise deserve access to RN broadcasts in exchange for the economic bounties they send home, which incidentally help prop up the local economies, the different levels of government, and even RN.
Let us not just look at the golden egg. Let us also cast some glance at the goose that lays it. Let the live-streaming of RN’s broadcast in www.biliranisland.com resume.
I cannot understand WHY people when it comes to POPULARITY, they can easily turn their Brain Up-SideDown, ( DUMP, DOMMERT and DOMBO )…. Do making probleem to those who are populair.
Biliran Site is NOW populair not only to people inside Philippines but those who are abroad …Please let the Biliran site continue the GOOD JOB they made and help them to Explore it instead of making TROUBLES.
To people those who troubled the Biliran Site, if you want to be populair thesame as Biliran Site Now, then make your own site and convince people or let may say this way …, tell to people that you’ll like to be alike as the popularity as the Biliran Site ! … Because in my meaning is NOT fear to jump in to this SITE only to make TROUBLES into it !!! …
BI buy ur own…DAghan man ang inyong kwarta sa mga controversial nga posting sa inyuhang site!
BLOG # 1. Lycor Vleem
I GUESS YOU’VE GOT THE WRONG POINT OR MAYBE YOU TRIED TO MISLEAD OUR READERS HERE! OR SHALL I SAY, GO DEEPER TO UNDERSTAND THE REAL ISSUE! JUST A SORT OF UNSOLICITED ADVICE!
THE ISSUE HERE DOESN’T IMPLY POPULARITY IT’S ALL ABOUT TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY! WE DON’T CARE ABOUT POPULARITY! WHAT WE ONLY REGARDED HERE IS JUST A PLEADING FOR THOSE CONCERNS TO PRACTICE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THEIR NOBLE SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF BILIRAN. AND OF COURSE, IT DOESN’T MEAN THAT WHEN YOU ARE ALREADY SERVING OUR PEOPLE YOU ARE NO LONGER HELD TO BE ACCOUNTABLE!
WELL, GIVING YOU THE BENEFIT OF DOUBT, MAYBE THAT IS HOW YOU UNDERSTAND THIS ISSUE OR MAYBE YOU JUST TRY TO MISLEAD THE READERS IN ORDER TO DEFEND CONCERNED PERSONS BEHIND THIS ISSUE! PEACE! HOPE YOU GET MY POINT.
AS I LOOK INTO THIS ISSUE, THIS IS JUST ONLY SMALL PROBLEM! WA LANG CGURO PROPER COORDINATION ANG BI.COM UG RN-NAVAL MAO NGA NAAY NANGASABIT ANI NGA ISYU!
WHY NOT BI.COM AND RN MANAGEMENT OF NAVAL WILL TOGETHER TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PROBLEM HAND IN HAND. BUT I GUESS, BI.COM MUST HAVE TO TAKE THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND MUST HAVE TO TAKE HIS INITIATIVE TO APOLOGIZE RN MANAGEMENT FOR POSTING AN ARTICLE THAT SOMEHOW DAMAGED THE INTEGRITY OF RN NAVAL WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE FROM RN MANAGEMENT..