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Monday, March 3, 2014

Regional radio channels on FM soon: Prasar Bharati CEO (Interview)

Source: NewsKarnataka.com | Updated 2014-03-03 13:21:00

New Delhi, March 3 (IANS): You will soon be able to catch your favourite regional radio programmes on FM radio with maximising of the existing technology and junking of the "mindless" and "silly" plan of introducing digital radio, says Prasar Bharati chief Jawhar Sircar.

Sircar, the CEO of India's public broadcaster that runs All India Radio and Doordarshan, said plans are afoot to place FM towers parallel to MW towers to achieve "simulcast" or simultaneously broadcast programmes which are run on Medium Wave on the Frequency Modulation towers.

"Simulcast is the new technology. If I put in an FM tower parallel to an MW tower, we can have simultaneously casting," Sircar told IANS in an interview.

"With this, you will be able to.............

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