FM Radio

In a bid to increase its footprint, the government is planning a fresh auction of FM radio stations, roll out an OTT platform and conduct trials of direct-to-mobile television broadcast this year, Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra said on Thursday. "We are also working towards an auction of FM radio stations this year. We hope to take FM radio to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities this year," he said addressing the Broadcast Engineering Society Expo here. He said though there were a large number of FM radio stations, the service covered only 60 per cent of the country. Chandra said the government has made an allocation of Rs 2,500 crore over a four-year period for the Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND) Scheme to widen the reach of Prasar Bharati, including in the Left wing extremism, border and strategic areas. The scheme aims to boost public sector broadcasting in the country and focuses on infrastructure development of Prasar Bharati, including A

FM radio operators are allowed to carry the news bulletins of All India Radio in exactly the same format without any alterations

The audit will be conducted to ensure that the amount to be submitted to the Centre in the form of the licence fee is "correctly assessed"

Push into C&D category cities to aid growth; sector had shrunk to half its pre-pandemic market size of Rs 3,100 cr due to Covid-19 and other curbs over past two years

The centre has also accepted the long pending demand of the radio industry to remove the 15% national cap on channel holding

The Centre has approved the amendments to certain provisions contained in the Policy Guidelines on expansion of FM Radio Broadcasting Services through Private Agencies (Phase-III)

Audio content platform Kuku FM said it has raised $21.8 million in Series B1 funding round, led by The Fundamentum Partnership, which will be utilised to strengthen content creation ecosystem

Radio Jaighosh will be available at 107.8 MHz and will broadcast programmes from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily from the newly renovated studio of the Sangeet Natak Akademi in Lucknow

Shutting down of BBC Hindi service by the end of this month is a jolt to the revered British tradition

As predicted by industry insiders, many national station owners, including RBNL, Jagaran Prakashan and HT Media, have stayed away from the auction