Thursday, July 29, 2021
Digital Radio awareness initiative launched by Indian DRM enthusiast
Sunday, July 25, 2021
ABC Radio National DRM tests on MW
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Kochi's First Community Radio Station, Radio Kochi to be inaugurated on 16th July'21
Ex All India Radio engineer is minister in new cabinet
Devusingh Chauhan is the new Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications, Govt. of India.
Before taking the plunge into politics, 57-year-old Devusinh Chauhan served as a broadcast engineer with the All India Radio for over 12 years.
Chauhan is two-term Lok Sabha member from Gujarat. A diploma holder, he worked with the All India Radio from 1989 to 2002 before resigning and joining politics.
After 63 years, VOA Bangla service to end radio broadcasts
Thursday, July 08, 2021
NewsOnAir Radio Live-stream Global Rankings
NewsOnAir Radio Live-stream Global Rankings
In the latest Rankings of top countries in the world (excluding India) where All India Radio Live-streams on NewsOnAir App are most popular,Fiji has jumped from 5th position to 2nd, while Saudi Arabia has made a comeback in top 10. Kuwait and Germany are new entrants, while France and New Zealand are no more in top 10. United States continues to be number 1.
In what is an important feat, All India Radio's Telugu and Tamil live-stream services are popular in United States, while AIR Punjabi service is popular in United Kingdom.
In major changes in rankings of top AIR streams globally (excluding India), AIR News 24*7has moved oneposition up from Rank 7 to 6, while AIR Tamil has slipped from spot 6 to 10.
More than 240 Radio Services of All India Radio are live-streamed on NewsOnAir App, PrasarBharati's official App. These All India Radio Streams on NewsOnAir App have a large number of listeners not just in India, but globally, in more than 85 countries and 8000 cities across the globe.
Here's a glimpse at the top countries, apart from India, where AIR live-streams on NewsOnAirApp are most popular; top All India Radio streams on NewsOnAir App in rest of the world. You can also find the country-wise breakup of the same. These rankings are based on fortnightly data, from June 16 to June 30, 2021. This data doesn't include India.
NewsOnAirGlobal Top 10 streams
Rank | Top Streams |
1 | VividhBharati National |
2 | FM Gold Delhi |
3 | FM Rainbow Delhi |
4 | AIR Malayalam |
5 | AIR Chennai Rainbow |
6 | News 24x7 |
7 | AIR Punjabi |
8 | AIR Kodaikanal |
9 | Asmita Mumbai |
10 | AIR Tamil |
NewsOnAir Top Countries (Rest of world)
Rank | Country |
1 | United States |
2 | Fiji |
3 | Australia |
4 | United Kingdom |
5 | Canada |
6 | United Arab Emirates |
7 | Singapore |
8 | Kuwait |
9 | Saudi Arabia |
10 | Germany |
NewsOnAir Top 10 AIR streams – Country-wise (Rest of World)
# | USA | Fiji | Australia | UK | Canada |
1 | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National |
2 | FM Gold Delhi | FM Gold Delhi | FM Gold Delhi | AIR Punjabi | FM Gold Delhi |
3 | FM Rainbow Delhi | FM Rainbow Delhi | FM Rainbow Delhi | FM Rainbow Delhi | FM Rainbow Delhi |
4 | AIR Telugu |
| AIR Malayalam | FM Gold Delhi | AIR Chennai Rainbow |
5 | AIR Tamil |
| AIR Chennai Rainbow | AIR Chennai Rainbow | AIR Raagam |
6 | AIR Raagam |
| News 24x7 | AIR Tamil | News 24x7 |
7 | FM Rainbow Mumbai |
| AIR Punjabi | Asmita Mumbai | AIR Malayalam |
8 | News 24x7 |
| Rainbow Kannada Kaamanbilu | Rainbow Kannada Kaamanbilu | AIR Punjabi |
9 | Asmita Mumbai |
| AIR Hyderabad VBS | AIR Gujarati | AIR Tamil |
10 | Rainbow Kannada Kaamanbilu |
| AIR Raagam | AIR Malayalam | AIR Coimbatore FM Rainbow |
NewsOnAir Top 10 AIR streams – Country-wise (Rest of World)
# | UAE | Singapore | Kuwait | Saudi Arabia | Germany |
1 | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National | VividhBharati National |
2 | AIR Malayalam | AIR Kodaikanal | AIR Malayalam | AIR Manjeri | FM Gold Delhi |
3 | AIR Chennai Rainbow | AIR Karaikal | AIR Kodaikanal | AIR Malayalam | FM Rainbow Delhi |
4 | AIR Ananthapuri | AIR Chennai Rainbow | AIR Kochi FM Rainbow | AIR Kozhikode FM | AIR Mysuru |
5 | AIR Chennai VBS | AIR Tiruchirappalli FM | AIR Ananthapuri | News 24x7 | FM Rainbow Lucknow |
6 | AIR Kochi FM Rainbow | AIR Puducherry Rainbow | AIR Karaikal | AIR Ananthapuri | Rainbow Kannada Kaamanbilu |
7 | AIR Kodaikanal | AIR Coimbatore FM Rainbow | AIR Chennai Rainbow | FM Gold Delhi | News 24x7 |
8 | AIR Manjeri | Rainbow Kannada Kaamanbilu | AIR Cuddapah | FM Rainbow Delhi | FM Rainbow Mumbai |
9 | AIR Kozhikode FM | AIR Madurai | AIRTiruchirappalli FM | AIR Chennai Rainbow | AIR Kodaikanal |
10 | News 24x7 | AIR Malayalam | FM Rainbow Vijayawada | AIR Kodaikanal | AIR Manjeri |
Saurabh Singh
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
(7 July 2021, PIB Delhi)
Monday, July 05, 2021
Test broadcasts from RTI Tamsui transmitter site on July 17, 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
TWR ASIA A21 Changes
LOC FREQ START STOP PWR AZI DAYS LANGUAGE
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KCH 7465 0045 0100 300 98 Su HINDI
KCH 7465 0045 0115 300 98 M Tu W Th F HINDI
KCH 7465 0045 0100 300 98 Sa DZONKHA
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Japan’s only shortwave station still in business after 80 years
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Japanese commercial MW stations will stop broadcasting by 2028
DRM to Launch New Energy Efficiency Calculator
The DRM Consortium has just developed a comprehensive and user-friendly calculator tool to determine how much energy can be saved by switching transmitters from analogue to digital DRM operation.
The DRM Energy Efficiency Calculator (https://energyefficiency.drm.org) has been created using typical performance data from transmitter manufacturers. It then calculates total expected energy usage for up to ten transmitters by considering operational mode, time on-air, and broadcasting technique assessing the energy consumption and electricity costs, based upon local market information. By comparing data sets for both analogue and DRM digital operations, it can estimate the potential (and often huge) savings broadcasters might expect from switching over to DRM.
This not only benefits broadcasters by reducing their electricity bills by double-digit percentages but proves specifically how DRM supports broadcasters' efforts to become more sustainable though green technology significantly reducing requirements for energy produced in large parts of the world from fossil fuels.
According to Simon Keens, Sales and Business Development Manager, Ampegon Power Electronics AG (key member of the DRM Consortium) who has devised the calculator," this new energy efficiency tool can be easily programmed into an Excel spreadsheet for ease of use and universal distribution in pdf reports summarizing the findings in simple text and graphs. This will help the engineers and all those interested to present concretely one of the great advantages of DRM, i.e., delivering substantial and sustained energy savings over many years."
Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Consortium Chairman, invites all those interested to a "zoom launch" of the new energy efficiency tool "Savings at Your Fingertips" on June 30th at 1000 UTC for introducing the simple device that will deliver results in minutes. "Unlike other complex studies on energy saving, this is something concrete that any broadcaster or anyone interested can create and use applying up to the minute data like transmitter power, energy costs etc. So, join us for this short takeaway session which will demonstrate how you can get concrete data and reports on energy consumption and savings through DRM use. Interested parties will be able to use it independently and thus assess and convince themselves and others of the energy saving benefit of DRM."
To register and join this webinar, please click here : https://tinyurl.com/ckdb93p9






