[HCDX] India: 150 private FM radio stations will be running by year-end

[sakthi vel <ardicdxclub@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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).
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Jaisakthivel, Chennai Via http://india.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/oct/oct332.php

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