Local Programming on All India Radio FM services

To ensure due space to local/regional programming on AIR stations of Prayagraj, Varanasi, Rohtak, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur, All India Radio has instructed the stations to carry the primary channel originating from the station, to ensure that local content relevant to the particular city/town/region is also available on FM.

In the light of few recent media reports which are falsely suggesting that Prasar Bharati is going to replace the broadcast of local content in local languages/dialects with Vividh Bharati National service at All India Radio stations in North zone, Prasar Bharati has clarified that local programming on FM will be ensured in all such stations.

These All India Radio stations have also been asked to limit their relay of Vividh Bharati National Service to only 4 hours a day, from 9 AM to 10 AM in the morning, 3 PM to 5 PM in the afternoon and 9 PM to 10 PM in the evening.

The morning announcement on the primary channels at above mentioned stations will also include the frequency details of the FM transmitter at that particular place.

These decisions were taken as part of streamlining of broadcasting operations of All India Radio in North Zone, which further strengthens/encourages local programming, by ensuring FM support to primary channels for availability of local content on FM.

(PIB Press Release)

Three more All India Radio stations on shortwave go off air

The latest monitoring observations show that the following  SW stations of All India Radio that were heard very well till yesterday are absent today, 1st January 2022. This tallies with the various media reports that  some old transmitters of  AIR  stations  were being shut down from yesterday.

1. Jeypore (50 kW) 5040  kHz

2. New Delhi (250 kW) 6030, 6100 kHz

3. Srinagar  (50 kW) 4950, 6110 kHz  

Also the Mumbai (50 kW)  Vividh Bharti transmitter on 1188 kHz  is  noted off air recently

(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS via DX_India)

All India Radio to double broadcast duration in 6 neighbourhood languages from Jan 3

All India Radio to double broadcast duration in 6 neighbourhood languages from Jan 3

New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): The External Services Division of All India Radio (AIR) will expand its transmission in six neighbourhood languages including Dari, Pashto, Baluchi, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, and Tibetan from Monday.

According to a statement issued by the AIR, the broadcast duration in each of these six languages has been doubled from the existing 1 to 1.5 hours per day to 3 hours per day.

"The External Services Division of All India Radio is expanding its transmission in six neighbourhood languages from 3rd January, 2022. These languages are Dari, Pashto, Baluchi, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali and Tibetan. The broadcast timings in each of these six languages has been doubled from the existing 1 to 1.5 hours to 3 hours. The broadcast services in these six languages henceforth will be available every day for one and a half hours each in the morning and evening," read an official AIR statement.

"The broadcast services in these six languages would henceforth be available every day for one and a half hours each in the morning and in the evening," the statement read.

The AIR has also informed that the timings of Burmese Service would change from 8:15 am – 9:15 am to 8:45 am – 9:45 am.

In keeping with its mandate of reaching out to the regions across the globe, the External Services Division of AIR currently broadcasts in 17 languages every day. The languages include French, Mandarin Chinese, Tibetan, Sindhi, Indonesian, Nepali, Urdu, Baluchi, Dari, Pashto, Arabic, Persian, Tibetan, Swahili, Punjabi, Saraiki, and Bengali. (ANI)

Here's the revised schedule :

Baluchi (Towards Pakistan) :

0300-0430 UTC (0830-1000 IST) - 9950 khz (D)

1230-1330 UTC (1800-1900 IST) - 9950 khz (D)

Burmese ( Towards Myanmar) :

0315-0415 UTC (0845-0945 IST) - 11560 kHz (D)

Chinese ( Towards China) :

2345-0115 UTC (0515-0645 IST) - 13795 kHz (B)

1030-1200 UTC (1600-1730 UTC) - 13795 kHz (B)

Dari ( Towards Afghanistan) :

0430-0600 UTC (1000-1130 IST) - 9950 kHz (D) 

1330-1500 UTC (1900-2030 IST) - 9950 kHz (D), 15030 kHz (B)

Nepali ( Towards Nepal) :

0145-0330 UTC (0715-0845 IST) - 11560 kHz (D)

0900-1030 UTC ( 1430-1600 IST) - 9950 kHz (D)

Pashto ( Towards Afghanistan) :

0430-0600 UTC (1000-1130 IST) - 11560 kHz (D)

1230-1400 UTC (1800-1930 IST) - 11560 kHz (D)

Tibetan (Towards 

0100-0230 UTC (0630-0800 IST) - 9875 kHz (B)

1045-1215 UTC (1615-1745 IST) - 11590 kHz (D)

B=Bengaluru ( 500 kW)

D= New Delhi (2 x 100 kW)