Mass media in Jute
Mass media in Jute mostly consists of radio stations and print media, as access to internet portals is limited and local TV stations do not exist.
Print media
Print media is by absolute numbers the most widely used form of media in Jute, but it is mostly limited to major towns and coastal regions alongside railway lines. It is therefore predominantly published in Coastal Jutean, but there are also outlets for all minority languages spoken in Jute. The biggest variety can be found in the largest towns, with Sitti and Helele having newspapers in Coastal Jutean, Nevirajutean, Neviran and River Jutean, while in Numudu newspapers are commonly printed in Coastal Jutean, Jutean Balak and Balak. Samwati newspapers are available in Samuru and neighboring communities as well as Numudu, whereas Klambari newspapers are usually headquartered in Amdato and available in much of eastern Jute aside from Kosomo. River Jutean newspapers are polycentric, and outside of Helele and Sitti have significant amounts of readers in Amdato and Taxonea, the cultural, economical and political center of River Juteans.
Magazines are less common and mostly only exist in Sitti and Numudu in Coastal Jutean.
Radio stations
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Terrestrial radio (vailitesohova in Coastal Jutean or simply vateso, abbreviated VT) is unlike print media available virtually everywhere in Jute and therefore the main source of information for the majority of non-urban communities and many smaller towns further away from both the coast and railways. Nearly every community, even very isolated ones, can receive some kind of station due to the prevalence of AM stations covering large areas. Where coverage is poor, often makeshift antennas are installed to relay the signal of bigger more centrally located stations to more secluded spots, but many counties and communities also have their own station, resulting in virtually all minority languages spoken in Jute being audible on the airwaves, too.
Some communities, especially in the countryside, might have communal radio devices that are publicly accessible and used during communal events, whereas in towns private devices are more common. Cheap used radios from overseas are a desired import and easy to obtain on a coastal market in places like Sitti or Numudu. The few particularly isolated spaces that have no access to any radio stations, or wish to get access to programming of stations further away, sometimes have it distributed to them in the form of podcasts saved on memory cards carried by pigeons or other messengers.
In both cases, call-in shows have become a popular way for listeners to engage directly with the medium, and when phones are not available, mail is used instead. Especially smaller countryside radio stations often also have a visitor hour, where any kind of resident can drop by, and just like during a call, can give music requests or send greetings.
Very popular are also political discussions, where current issues that were recently or will shortly be topics on community meetings are discussed. This exchange is particularly crucial for higher-level meetings, such as county or regional ones, as those do not take place in a single location, with topics instead being handled and voted on by individual communities and then added up. So face-to-face conversation with people from other communities is rare and radio stations allow for cross-community talk.
Radio stations also are fundamental for public announcements, which were the first public broadcasts in Jute. As a result, the word for radio in Coastal Jutean is made up of the machine prefix vaili- and tesohova, meaning ‘message, alert, announcement’.
TV stations
There are no local TV stations in Jute, however some programs, predominantly Thuyoan and other Lahan programing, can be received via satellite. Very few households have a television at home, though, only some public establishments like cafes or cinemas have one. Those are often referred to locally as "TV cafes" and "Live cinemas".
However, the Jutean community living in Lhavres has a TV station, SAA VVJ, and occasionally sends reporters to the island for news coverage or to produce documentaries.
Web media
Several web portals exist, but are limited in reach due to underdeveloped infrastructure. Most commonly they are accessed from internet cafes or printouts of articles sent via pigeon mail.