HALA BEDI IRRATIA. Historia bat uhinetan
35 urte pasa dira Hala Bedi irratiak uhinak okupatzeari ekin zion abuztuko egun hartatik. 1983an jaio zen Hala Bedi irratia, helburu argi batekin: ahotsik ez zutenei ahotsa ematea, komunikatzeko modu ezberdin baten alde lan egitea. Asko aldatu da dena denbora honetan zehar. Asko aldatu da jendartea, bizimodua oro har. Eta handia da gaur egungo Hala Bedi irratiaren eta hasiera hartakoaren arteko aldea.
Hala ere, badira bere horretan mantentzen diren beste ezaugarri asko. Irrati bat baino gehiago garela esaten dugu, gainontzeko irratiengandik bereizten gaituzten ezaugarriak ditugulako oinarri. Autogestioak, asanblada bidezko funtzionamenduak, kultura-artekotasuna eta aniztasuna baloretzat hartzeak, komunikazio hurbil eta parte hartzaileak, inongo interes ekonomiko zein politikoren menpe ez egoteak eta urte hauetan guztietan herri mugimenduaren tresna izateak egiten gaitu libre, besteengandik ezberdin.
Horregatik definitzen dugu geure burua, hain zuzen ere, irrati libretzat. Hala Bedi herri mugimenduaren ekimenez sortu baitzen 1983ko abuztuan. Jai giroan murgildurik zegoen hiriburu artifizial honetan bertan. Zegoenarekin konforme ez eta zerbait aldatu nahi zuten haiek denek eman zioten hasiera letra txikiz idatzitako historia handi honi. Hertzainak, Potato eta La Polla Records bezalako taldeek kaleak aztoratzen zituzten garaiak ziren. Mugimendu autonomoa, punkiak eta bestelakoak biltzen ziren orduko Gasteizko kaleetan. Eltze hartan hasi ziren prestatzen oraindik orain bizirik dirauten mugimendu eta ekimen asko.
Gauzak beste modu batera egitea posible dela frogatzen saiatu gara ibilitako bidean zehar. Batzuetan gehiago asmatuz eta beste batzuetan gutxiago. Eta garrantzitsuagoa dena, beti gure ezintasun eta hanka sartzeetatik ikasiz. Lan boluntarioari esker handituz eta haziz joan da Hala Bedi, eta bidea ez da erraza izan. Oztopo askori egin behar izan zaio aurre, behin baino gehiagotan saiatu dira mikrofono hauek isilarazten. Baina ez dute lortu. Urte batzuk beranduago, eta gogoeta sakon baten ondorioz, nahi zuenak nahi zuena esateko irrati bat izatetik proiektu komunikatibo sendo eta heldu bat izatera ailegatu da Hala Bedi irratia.
Hiriko kolektibo ezberdinen parte-hartzea sustatzea eta teknologia berrien aldeko apustua behar-beharrezkoak izan ziren horretarako. Programazio finko bat lortzea, komunikatzeko eta lan egiteko modu bat definitzea lortu zen ekaitz osteko urte haietan. Helburu zehatzak jarri ziren abian eta horretarako bitartekoak bilatu. Baina honetan ez gaude bakarrik; Euskal Herriko beste txoko batzuetara ailegatzeko Arrosa Sareko beste irrati libre batzuk ditugu bidelagun. Eta horrela, apurka-apurka eta gure mugak onartuz, euskara hutsezko bigarren emisio bat martxan jarri berritan ailegatu gara gaur egunera arte. Indartsu eta gogotsu.
HALA BEDI RADIO STATION. a story in the waves
Hala Bedi irratia was born in 1983 and it is of the oldest community radio station in the Basque Country. At that time, the socio-political situation was difficult, people were longing in the streets for freedom, they wanted to change society. Thus, members of different popular initiatives started to talk about setting up a new radio station which would offer a place to the people who had been excluded from the traditional mass media.
In all these years, significant advances have been made, especially with respect to the broadcasting time and in quality of the transmission. However, Hala Bedi has kept its essence. It continues to be the radio station for the people who don´t have freedom of expression in other radios.
Three are the words that would define the radio: assembly, self-management and volunteering.
As for the directory board, there`s not any radio manager. All decissions have to be taken in assemblies. Thus, the participation is fundamental, the more opinions there are, the richer is the assembly.
Hala Bedi is based on self-management, to persist it manages to find its own sources to collect money. It must be pointed out that it doesn´t receive finantial aid neither from public institutions nor from publicity. Its main finantial support comes from the Halabelarries, that is to say, from the supporters or radio community members. Nowadays there are more than 700 people who believe in this project. This radio wouldn´t exist without them. Apart from the members, Hala Bedi has other ways to obtain money: sale of material, concerts, the celebrations of the city,…
Running this radio is based on volunteering. However, there is only a few persons who earn salary, but it doesn´t mean they have more privileges than the others; these persons have the same rights and duties.
This collective has grown all over the years, and nowadays it offers more or less 43 radio programs. The broadcasting starts at 7.30 a.m, and finishes at 1 a.m. In order to carry out all these programs, there are around a houndreed people working on them. Radio programs are classified in 3 main groups: magazines, cultural or social programs and music programs.
First of all, there are four magazines on which the structure of the radio is based: Suelta la Olla, Zebrabidea, Hizpidea and Araba Hizpide. Secondly, the cultural or social programs are carried out by different social collectives and some of them deal with social issues such as the internationalism, youth movement, the situations in the prisons, etc… while some others deal with cultural topics such as literature, history, multiculturalism, travelling… Finally, as for the the music programs, the choice is varied. Rock, hip hop, metal, tango or other types of music are in our programmes. One of the goals of the radio is to promote music which doesn´t come from commercial origins.
Hala Bedi has a national persperctive, that is to say, we take into account the whole Basque Country, we believe in the sovereignity of the Basque Country. Although we started broadcasting in the province of Araba, our emission is spreading all over the seven provinces by means of the net Arrosa.
Arrosa was born as a consequence of the coordination of the radios which broadcast in the Basque Country. Their main characteristic is the fact that their broadcasting area is small and the fact of using Basque language.
As far as the language is concerned, Hala Bedi broadcasts both in Basque and in Spanish. Nevertheless, our objective is to promote the use of the Basque language.