Special broadcasts by AIR for Republic Day 2018

India is celebrating its 69th Republic Day on 26 Jan 2018 (Friday). All India Radio will broadcast special programs in connection with the Republic Day celebrations as follows:

25 January 2018 (Thursday) : Eve of Republic Day

1330 UTC (1900 IST) onwards Hon'ble President's address to the nation in Hindi &  English. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR on MW, SW, FM. Shortly after this broadcast, the local stations will broadcast its translations in local languages.

SW frequencies:

kHz     kW       Station

4760    7          Leh                

4760    4          Port Blair                    

4800    50        Hyderabad                

4810    50        Bhopal          

4835    10        Gangtok                    

4895    50        Kurseong (Off Air)                 

4910    50        Jaipur  

4920    50        Chennai          

4950    50        Srinagar          

4970    50        Shillong          

5010    50        Thiruvananthapuram              

5040    50        Jeypore                      

5050    10        Aizawl (Off Air)

6030    250      Delhi              

9380    250      Aligarh

9865    500      Bengaluru

MW Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm

FM Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm

26 January 2018 (Friday) : Republic Day

Live running commentary of Republic Day parade & cultural pageant from 0335 UTC (0905 IST) onwards :

Hindi : 7520 (Delhi 250 kW)  (Cancelling External Service in Urdu normally broadcast at this time on these frequency). 13695 (Bengaluru 500 kW)

English : 6030 (Delhi 250 kW); 15185 (Bengaluru 500 kW)

Also MW/FM frequencies as per above mentioned links.

The following regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies  on 60 Meters (4 and 5 MHz frequencies) to their day time frequencies between  0315-0350 UTC (ie much earlier than usual) as follows :

 6000 Leh

 6085 Gangtok

 7315 Shillong

 7325 Jaipur

 The following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at this time and will also relay the running commentary.

 6110 Srinagar

 7270  Chennai

 7290 Thiruvanthapuram

 7380 Chennai

 7390 Port Blair

 7420 Hyderabad

 7430 Bhopal

 9865 Bengaluru

SPT Chinsurah (594 kHz) and HPT Tuticorin (1053 kHz) will carry the running commentary in English from 0335 UTC (0905 IST) onwards.

Please send your reception reports on line at: http://pbinfo.air.org.in/feedback/

or by email to: spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in

Live streaming of the above programs is available in:

http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx

Those who would like to watch the programs on Doordarshan TV  can check in:

DD National Channel:

http://www.ddindia.gov.in/Pages/Home.aspx      

https://www.youtube.com/user/DoordarshanNational

DD News Channel:http://webcast.gov.in/live/