For many decades the greatest impediment to Estonian language broadcasting in Canada was the high price of launching and maintaining a radio show. Radio stations wanted large sums of money for the use of their studios and highly paid employees were needed to play records on the air. This situation made broadcasting in Estonian and other minority languages prohibitively expensive for their respective communities.
Thanks to the new technology of internet-based broadcasting developed by Robert Hopkins of Tagish, Yukon Territory, Canada's Estonian-speaking community now has its own radio program featuring popular music in the Estonian language. Eesti Pop, formerly Eesti Muusika ja Uudised Põhja Kanadast (Estonian Music and News from Northern Canada), has been continuously broadcast since January 2005.
The Openbroadcaster system has made it easy for people such as myself with no formal radio education to manage a daily radio show with just a few hours of training. Mr. Hopkins has always been available to provide support when needed to enable me to succeed in this endeavour. I am able to manage this program, add and delete songs and create playlists and audio files with a computer from the comfort of my own home without ever having to even enter a studio.
I recommend OpenBroadcaster highly to all of the ethnic communities who make up Canada's multicultural mosaic and strongly believe that this new technology will further the goal of bringing equality and diversity to Canada's airwaves.
Peter Kalm - Eesti Pop Radio