With MR TAYO TAKURO
The station was officially commissioned on the 14th December,2004 by the former vice-president Alhaji Abubakar though the station is independent of government bodies,donors,advertisers and other institution,the affairs of the stations is run by the university. The university pays the staff salaries and the student allowance.
The station get full participation from the academic staff from whom the listener is able to tap from their vast knowledge and the students of mass communication,English,electelect,and other department participate in the daily broadcast of the programmes such as news reporting and writing,presentation production and marketing.
The language of operation of unilag FM is strictly English although ther is a program which allows the participation of callers from all dialect in Nigeria.Broadcast begin at 5am to 12:30am on weekdays and 5am to 2am on weekends .
Unilag 103.1FM uses a 10KWZ transmitter which is placed on the high on the 12th floor of the senate building. some of the equipment found at unilag FM were donated by UNESCO.
All community radio must not broadcast beyond 5am.there is a difference in the case of unilag FM because the station is surrounded by water which allows water waves to transmit her programme beyond the limit"private stations believe we are competing with them,the monitor our station so as to always report to NBC, I am a professional journalist and I can stand in front of any journalist".
The station does not take adverts on alcohols,cigarettes,political advert (partisan politics) e.t.c. But Advert on soft food,non-alcoholics products,cultural and educational advert events are allowed though there is a limit to the numbers of advertisement the station can do in a day.
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