Radio Everyone, which was launched on September 25 at the UN as a part of its Global Goals to end poverty, fight inequality & injustice and tackle climate change for everyone by 2030, engaged over 350 million listeners in 75 countries on over 1000 radio stations.
The 7-day pop up, global radio station was a part of ‘Project Everyone’, devised by British filmmaker and founder of Comic Relief, Richard Curtis.
Designed to reach as many of the 7 billion people in the world as possible, it asked stations to use its content, produce their own, or mix the two.
Here are the highlights of what the stations across the world came up with.
– A dedicated Radio Everyone pop up channel on ABC in Australia
– Global Goals playlists across CBC Music in Canada
– Europa Plus, the most popular radio station in Russia, had Russian star director Egor Konchalovsky on to talk about the Global Goals and played Global Citizen highlights
– On 92.7 Big FM in India there has been week long activity including special shows from A R Rahman, Hrithik Roshan and Kailash Satyarthi.
– Deutsche Welle across Africa broadcast a special focus week on the Global Goals in six languages, with reports, interviews and dedicated programs on the Goals.
– Astro Radio stations in Malaysia –presenters from stations Hitz FM, Mix FM, Lite FM, Era FM, Sinar FM, My FM and THR Raaga have been picking a Goal and posting their Global Goals Selfies. Plus a host of amazing Dizzy Penalty films have been uploaded to Youtube featuring the station’s presenters.
– Daily features on Arirang’s Good Morning Seoul in South Korea.
– A 3 hour Global Goals special on Hit Radio Ö3 ORF in Austria
– Special Global Goals coverage on Colours FM Bangladesh involving models, artists, authors and journalists.
– Daily interviews and a special social media campaign on Homeboyz Radio in Kenya. They also did a Goals quiz with their DJs. If they got the question wrong they had to go out and tell 5 people on the street about the goals.
– RTL Luxembourg told their audience about the 17 goals with reports and interviews with politicians, NGOs and various personalities. Plus they translated the packages into Luxembourgish.
– On Dodoma FM Tanzania there were phone-ins about the MDG’s and their impact on the lives of the audiences plus local musicians and leaders have been in to the studio to talk about the goals.
– There was amazing support from across Radio Algerie including a round table on Chaine 3 where Algeria’s UN Representative talked about the SDGs and coverage across their youth station, Jil FM.
– Ariana Radio 93.5 FM in Afghanistan gave a wide range of coverage to Radio Everyone with shows including audience discussion, presenter pieces about the Goals and lots of support online.
– On Radio Afgoi in Somalia, there has been support for Radio Everyone across the week, including special packages from journalists recording with local ‘superheroes’.
– Radio2 Rai in Italy- there has been extensive coverage including using Global Citizen highlights to talk about the Global Goals and coverage across the daytime, every day this week
– Joy FM, in Ghana, put together a two-part documentary to highlight the gains and short comings of the MDGs in that country. Their documentary team toured remote places within Ghana as well as places caught up in the urban sprawl. Tell Everybody, which featured Ghana’s top musician Sarkodie was a hit with the station.
-SBC in the Seychelles has been using short goals packages to engage listeners on their FM outlet and coverage has tied in well with a local conference on the goals which was hosted there this week. As a legacy project SBC is now planning to create documentary content, made locally, around the goals
– World Have Your Say from the BBC World Service broadcast a special show last week, live from the UN. Amina Mohamed and Helen Clark were quizzed by an audience of young people about the goals and whether there was any point in them.
You can now listen to all of the shows we made on demand at www.globalgoals.org/radio-everyone