Radio stations and service provision in Agreste de Pernambuco in times of pandemic

Abstract

How has the radio acted as a service provider to the community of Caruaru and the Region during the Covid pandemic? This is the guiding question of a research, presented in part in this article, which analyzes the content of two programs from the Cultura and Jornal de Caruaru radio stations, in Caruaru, a central municipality of Agreste in Pernambuco. Although the research starts in the second half of March, and ends in August, we selected a month (April) to build this article. The radio stations were chosen because Rádio Jornal is the successor to the first broadcaster in Caruaru. On the other hand, Rádio Cultura is the second oldest in the city. Bibliographic research, data collection and content analysis, methods were used. We conclude that the programs, in different ways, manage to make public the real and immediate needs of the local community, signaling that the radio still has an important role in charging the public power when it fails to meet those needs.