For entertainment broadcast, some radio provides interactive form of song requests from the audience.

The radios provide access to programming on women's rights, health and controversial issues such as female genital cutting.

Compared to computer penetration - which is quite low - radio can provide excellent educational opportunities.

Amateur radio provides a means of communication "when all else fails".

"In a lot of areas, kids don't read and write, and radio provides the ability to communicate orally."

The radio provided a minute-by-minute report of the raid.

A radio provides some contact with what is happening in the outside world.

The radios will provide Internet reception over a nearby hill to a school with about 250 students.

Commercial radio sometimes also provides weather and damage information.

Last-minute radio and telephone messages would provide phone numbers for people to call for rides, she said.