• August 5, 2015
• Broadcasting, Radio

KARACHI: A delegation of FM Radio owners met Chairman Pemra Kamaluddin Tipu at the regional officer of the authority to discuss different issues facing the industry, says a Pemra press release. The chairman Pemra welcomed the FM Radio owners’ delegation along with Muhammad Farooq, Regional General Manager Sindh and Owais Mustafa, Assistant General Manager. The […]

• June 2, 2015
• Radio

KARACHI: Back in 2012, when a television lab was inaugurated at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology (Fuuast), the slain associate professor of University of Karachi (KU), DrYasir Rizvi, decided there was also a need for a radio lab in the varsity’s Abdul Haq Campus. Praising the work and character of the […]

• May 19, 2015
• Radio

LARKANA: The 100 kiloWatt medium wave transmitter of the Radio Pakistan Larkana which was planned to be made functional in 2008 is yet to be put in operation due to technical reasons. It was installed near Chuharpur village located along the Larkana-Naudero Road after complaints by listeners about low signals. Although the work for the […]

• March 9, 2015
• Broadcasting, New Media, Radio, Social Media

THE recent demand made by Radio Pakistan to levy radio tax on vehicles and mobile phones has started a media debate. Do we need to save Radio Pakistan? In the age of climate change, the neglect of cultures and languages by corporate media and the race for profits, and while keeping the communication and cultural […]

• March 6, 2015
• Access to Information, New Media, Radio, Social Media

Village life used to be very simple and sweet. Farmers would share their views with one another in a hujra or some other common place after toiling all day in the fields. The only window open to them to learn what was going on in the world outside happened to be the noble and honest […]

• March 5, 2015
• Broadcasting, Radio, Television

ISLAMABAD: Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved funds for broadcasting Senate proceedings and Standing Committees through Webcasting and a dedicated FM radio. In addition the Finance Committee also approved financial and human resources for the think-tank, Senate Forum for Policy Research (SFPR) and incentives for secretariat assistants, sub-assistants, junior assistants and security guards, gunmen and […]

• March 4, 2015
• Radio

Radio Pakistan is a symbol of our statehood and nationalism. We should never consider it a burden on the state coffers. Nor we should take it as a purely commercial organisation. It has helped to produce a plethora of artists, singers and musicians from all around our beloved homeland. It has in its repository many […]

• February 21, 2015
• Broadcasting, Media and Governance, Radio, Television

ISLAMABAD: The government will buy Rs30.4 million equipment to monitor the talk shows of private TV channels. Sizable amount will be set aside in the development budget for the coming year for setting up broadcast centres at the Control Line, Working Boundary and frontiers close to Iran, China and Afghanistan to extend transmission of the […]

• February 13, 2015
• Broadcasting, Radio

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Thursday organised a one-day workshop for industry stakeholders on the topic of “FM Radio Broadcasting in Pakistan” at its headquarters. Major emphasis of this workshop was to engage stakeholders to identify issues relating to the FM radio licensing eg tariff, renewal of licenses, operational issues and […]

• January 23, 2015
• Radio, Social Media, Television

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) in a bid to promote latest trends and technologies for growth of private electronic media in Pakistan has approved relaxation of licensing regime for Mobile TV. The Authority in a press release said that opening up of private electronic media for new technologies would result in socioeconomic […]

• January 22, 2015
• Print Media, Radio, Television

KARACHI: The first meeting of media Committee constituted under Provincial Action Plan / National Action Plan to eliminate terrorism met here under the chairmanship of Secretary to Government of Sindh Information Department Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shalwani the meeting who attended by Director General PID Ashique Hussain Shaikh, Sayed Sikandar Ali of PIMRA, Ayaz Alam of […]

• January 21, 2015
• Broadcasting, Radio

ISLAMABAD: People will soon be able to hear live proceedings of Senate sessions and its committees on the Senate’s official website and an FM radio station. After approving the proposal of live webcasting on Senate’s website and a self-acquired FM radio station, Senate Chairman Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari on Tuesday referred the matter to the […]

• August 12, 2014
• Radio

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Monday inaugurated a new FM Channel by the state radio broadcaster with the hope that it would prove to be another asset for Pakistan’s mass media industry, Radio Pakistan reported on Monday. The new Radio Pakistan channel is called “Virsa”. Hussain also congratulated the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the […]

• July 22, 2014
• Radio

Islamabad: The Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, PIMS, is all set to launch a Health FM Radio Station, an e-health initiative that is estimated to benefit 1 million people residing in Islamabad Capital Territory and its adjoining areas, the university’s vice chancellor Prof. Javed Akram told ‘The News’ here on Sunday. “The Ministry of […]