PBC contradicts report
QUETTA: Apropos a news report published in Dawn on Saturday, a spokesman for the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), Islamabad, has issued a statement which says the Radio Pakistan’s Quetta centre is covering Quetta and other areas of Balochistan satisfactorily. The spokesman said that 150-kilowatt transmitter installed in Yaru in 1974 is functioning and was not […]
Obsolete transmitter affects Quetta radio broadcast
QUETTA: Radio Pakistan’s Quetta centre has stopped its transmissions on medium and short waves because the transmitter required to relay programmes has simply stopped functioning, according to a senior official. “There has been no transmission on medium and short waves from Quetta radio station in the last five to six years,” a senior official of […]
Radio silence
By Kamran Shafi Now that there is a committee set up for talking to the Taliban, including a ranking member of the PTI, the good Mr Rustam Shah Mohmand; senior journalist and now the prime minister’s (PM) adviser on national affairs, Mr Irfan Siddiqi; the much respected journalist Mr Rahimullah Yusufzai; and one-time spook Major […]
PAC for revoking FM radio contract
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for the termination of the contract of FM-101 given to M/s Loud and Clear by the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) following the special audit report of the Auditor General of Pakistan Revenue (AGPR). The AGPR submitted its special audit report […]
When stuck in traffic, just tune into FM 88.6
KARACHI: To keep citizens updated on traffic jams and direct them towards alternative routes with the melody of old and new songs being played at intervals, the Sindh traffic police has started FM 88.6 radio station. If you are unsure about which route to take to make it to your destination on time, just tune […]
100 PBC workers awaiting justice
ISLAMABAD: Sajid, a middle-aged employee of Radio Pakistan (Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation) is working fulltime for the last 17 years on contract basis and still gets just Rs7000 per month, less than a labourer. Talking to this correspondent he said: “I have a family and school going children and at this stage of my life I […]
Radio: the real pioneer — II
Music was perhaps the greatest of radio’s attractions. Listeners could get everything they wanted. Classical, popular, or devotional music, all were available. Roshan Ara Begum, Nazakat Ali, Salamat Ali Khan, Amanat Ali, Fateh Ali Khan, Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanam, Umrao Zia Begum, instrumentalists Sharif Khan ‘Poonchwaley’, Hyder Buksh, Shaukat Hussain, Sain Marna, Babu Khan, Siraj […]
Radio Pakistan Lahore’s 76th birthday celebrated
LAHORE: After completing 76 years since its inception, Radio Pakistan Lahore celebrated its 76th birthday on Friday at Aiwan-e-Iqbal. Founded on December 16, 1937 in Lahore, Radio Pakistan Lahore has been airing its programs with different effects. Soon the station became a cultural and literary nerve centre of the country. On its 76th birthday celebration, […]
‘Radio’ the real pioneer
Broadcasting in Lahore started in a small way with a transmitter installed in the YMCA building on The Mall. This was in 1928 i.e. the previous century. It was later shifted to the house owned by Sir Fazle Hussain near ‘Simla Pahari’, on the road leading to the Governor’s House, in 1937. It was at […]
Closure of radio channels in FATA
PESHAWAR: I would like to bring to the attention of the Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Engineer Shaukatullah Khan, to a serious issue of public concern. Radio Khyber, Radio Razmak and Radio Miranshah which operated in the most deprived region of Pakistan, the tribal areas, were shut down in May this year. Since then, the people […]