Radio Progress, the premier radio station in the Upper West Region and the first Community Radio Station in Ghana, has launched its 25th anniversary to celebrate its success, assess the challenges and find the way forward.
The anniversary was launched on Sunday, with a planning committee inaugurated plan the activities for the celebration.
The nine member committee comprised of staff of the radio station and cooperate organizations and civil society organizations among others.
Mr Ivan Domasah, the Acting Station Coordinator for Radio Progress, told Info Radio in an interview that the radio station, has for the past 25 years chalked a lot of successes, including opening the gateway for some present day journalist and media practitioners in the region.
Mr Domasah explained that as a community radio they involved their audience in their programming to ensure that the content satisfied their listeners.
Mr Domasah noted that the station has over the years influenced community development.
Mr Domasah explained that it was the vision of the radio station to graduate to a radio station and to ensure that the general public, especially women, children and the vulnerable group, know its rights and how to demand those rights to avoid being discriminated against.
Radio Progress was established and commenced on-air operation on 17th February 1997.
It started as a Social Communication Department of the Catholic Church in Wa and was later became the first radio station in the region that broadcast its own programmes until Radio Upper West was establish three years later.
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