Radio Belize began by testing a three hour program one Saturday morning. The response was overwhelming - listeners loved having their own dialect on the air. All day there are at least three or four announcers in the studio, with new ones coming and going periodically. Chitchating about everything under the sun, announcers also take phonecalls and read listeners' letters. The station invites listeners to write stories and poems and send them in to be read on the air.
Some listeners even record their own writings on cassette, which the station plays n the air.
Live . . On the third Saturday of each month, a remote studio is set up in some town's central park. Except for an hour break at noon for the news, Radio Belize broadcasts from the park from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Very little planning goes into the broadcast. They go to the park to see the show and end up taking part in it by gossiping with the announcers, singing songs, reading their own stories and poems, or just sending greetings to family and friends in other towns. Again, Belizean Creole is the main language used, but listeners use other languages as well.