150 private FM radio stations will be running by year-end With five more FM radio stations commissioned in September, the number of total operationalised private FM radio channels in the country has gone up to 120.
The new FM channels are MY FM (Synergy Media) for Ajmer, Radio Dhamal (BAG Infotainment) for Muzafarpur and Dhule, BIG FM (Adlabs Films) for Ajmer, and Radio Mirchi (ENIL) for Kolhapur. The Government received a sum of Rs 16.782 million as license fee from private FM Radio Broadcasters during September 2007. Meanwhile, a total of around 150 private FM radio stations and 11 All India Radio FM stations are expected to go on air by the end of the year. After the new policy of expansion of FM broadcasting through private operators had been notified on 13 July 2005 , 337 channels in 91 cities including 217 channels of class-C and class-D cities were put on bid. Out of these, agreements were signed with successful bidders for 139 channels in 57 cities At present, a total of 281 FM channels include 161 of All India Radio and 120 privately owned channels are operational. These include 21 operationalised under the Phase-1 scheme. Information and Broadcasting ministry sources told Indiantelevision.com that of the private FM radio channels expected to come up by the end of the year, 25 are in Maharashtra; 17 in Kerala; 14 in Tamil Nadu; 10 in Rajasthan; 10 in Gujarat; 9 each in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh; eight each in Karnataka and West Bengal; seven each in Punjab and Jharkhand; six in Chattisgarh; three each in Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Puducherry; two each in Orissa, Meghalaya and Assam; and one each in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Tripura, Bihar and Daman and Diu. The All India Radio stations are coming up in eight states by the end of the year. Of these, three will come up Jammu and Kashmir (Diskit, Nyoma and Padum), and two in Orissa (Rairangpur and Soro). The others are Macherla (Andhra Pradesh), Oras ( Maharashtra ), Churachandpur (Manipur), Dungarpur (Rajasthan), Dharmapuri (Tamil Nadu), and Dharmanagar (Tripura). ///////////// Jaisakthivel, Chennai Via http://india.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/oct/oct332.php /////////////////////// For Contact: Jaisakthivel,59,Annai Sathya Nagar, Arumbakkam,Chennai-600106,India Visit: www.dxersguide.blogspot.com www.sarvadesavaanoli.blogspot.com Join: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/sarvadesavanoli Mobile: +91 98413 66086 /////////////////////// Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it on http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
