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Name States Cities Languages Operator Frequency Website Listen live All India Radio: Nationwide AIR's home service comprises 479 stations, today located across the country, reaching nearly 92% of the country's area and 99.19% of the total population.
Radio Broadcasting began in June 1923 during the British Raj with programs by the Bombay Presidency Radio Club and other radio clubs. According to an agreement on 23 July 1927, the private Indian Broadcasting Company Ltd (IBC) was authorized to operate two radio stations: the Bombay station which began on 23 July 1927, and the Calcutta station which followed on 26 August 1927.
The FM broadcasting in India began in 1977; growing popularity after 2001 when the privatisation of FM broadcasting began. AIR's FM LRS (Local Radio Station) was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 at 06:00 in Kodaikanal relaying Madurai programs in the frequency 100.5 MHz. 100.5 was so popular that LRS was upgraded to an FM Channel in just two months.
When India became independent in 1947, the All India Radio network consisted of only six stations: Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Lucknow, and Tiruchirappalli. The three radio stations in Lahore, Peshawar, and Dhaka remained in what eventually became Pakistan after the partition. At that time, there were approximately 250,000 radio sets in India.
Radio City [4] is the first private FM radio station in INDIA and First FM station to come to Bengaluru and It was started on 3 July 2001 with the frequency 91 MHz. On 30 October 2006 it changed to the frequency 91.1 MHz.It is the only station in India to have completed 10 successful years and currently the number one station in Bengaluru according to RAM reports. [5]
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All India Radio MW Relay Station -Kayamkulam-101.1; All India Radio Kochi 102.3 [2] AIR FM Rainbow Kochi -107.5 (Music Channel) All India Radio Thrissur - 103; All India Radio Devikulam (Idukki district) - 101.4 [3] All India Radio Real FM - Kozhikode - 103.6; All India Radio Manjeri FM (Malappuram district) -102.7 [4] All India Radio Kannur ...
List of Indian-language radio stations; R. Radio Nasha This page was last edited on 13 October 2018, at 09:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...