Does the radio have a red line when choosing eulogies? / Selection from 25,000 pieces – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
Referring to the activities of this radio in the last two decades, Massoud Kaviani, the director of Moharram Radio, announced the sending of various groups to Iraq and India and told Mehr reporter: This year, I sent a group to India because there are many fans of Imam Hussain in India.A) There are and they perform passionate mourning which is sometimes even more passionate than ours.
He continued: “These days there are many subjects in India, Ashura day in India because of its importance and because of this the fans that we said are closed and we also saw that there are many capacities in this country and it is a good opportunity that a team Send the documentary maker to India. Three people were sent, including a producer, an expert, and a videographer, and we tried to record some of the cases in a video format, despite the fact that our work is on the radio.
Kaviani clarified: The initial broadcast of this documentary was on Moharram Radio and the images were also used in cyberspace or other media. They were in India from August 11 to August 25. A three-person team was sent to Karbala and they sent various reports.
Regarding the selection of eulogies on Moharram Radio, he clarified: Our red line in the field of eulogies is structural and content, that is, eulogies that were weak in content and structure were left out. The monitoring department of the radio, which has strong supervisors, as well as the Poetry and Music Council of Ma’arif Radio, reviews all these pieces.
The manager of Radio Moharram reminded about the number of these pieces: We have five thousand praise pieces in the archives of Radio Moharram that we use, and this amount is about 20 or 30% of the amount that has been checked. That is, about 25 thousand songs have been reviewed over a period of several years, which was 2 or 3 thousand songs a year, and finally, out of this number, 5 thousand songs have been included in the radio archive.
In the end, he said: “Part of these items are provided by us, some are sent by the delegations themselves, and since our view is nationwide, we also select some from different regions of the country.”