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  • BBC launches 24 hour FM station in Kabul

    BBC launches 24 hour FM station in Kabul

    MUMBAI: Radio listeners in Kabul can now hear BBC World Service programmes in English 24 hours a day thanks to the launch of a new FM station, BBC 101.6 FM.     

    The programmes broadcast on BBC 101.6 FM range from health and sport to business and music. Key programmes include Newshour, which offers news and analysis of the day’s top stories from around the globe. The World Today examines in detail the stories that make the headlines. Talking Point meanwhile enables listeners and internet users to put questions to leading international figures.
    BBC World Service head Eurasia Region Behrouz Afagh said, ” Thanks to this development, listeners in Kabul can now hear for the first time the full range of BBC programmes in English in crystal clear quality in addition to BBC programmes broadcast in Pashto, Persian and Uzbek through our other BBC FM stations.”
    BBC World Service is available globally on short wave; on FM in 139 capital cities; and selected programmes are carried on around 2,000 FM and MW radio stations around the world. BBC World Service claims that its websites receive around 280 million page impressions every month.

  • Private TV channel opens in Kabul

    Private TV channel opens in Kabul

    MUMBAI: Private television channel has come to Kabul. The first private television channel in the Afghan capital of Kabul has commenced broadcasting.

    Named as Afghan Television Channel (ATC), the channel will air music and films on tentative bases for one month.

    The collapse of fundamentalist Taliban regime and induction of new government saw print and electronic mediahave mushrooming in major cities across the post-war Afghanistan. Another private television channel from the northern city of Shibirghan has already started functioning.

    ATC director Ahamd Shah Afghanzai is quoted in media reports as saying the channel’s beaming would cover all the capital and surrounding areas.

  • BBC News Online reports global support for Nisha Sharma

    NEW DELHI: It looks as if Nisha Sharma is getting international support for her stand on dowry and BBC News Online has played a role in it.
    The BBC News Online has reported massive international interest and support for Nisha Sharma over her stand against dowry. According a press release, more than 170,000 people logged on to the BBC’s award winning news site (bbcnews.com) in just two days to read it’s reports about Nisha’s reaction to her fiance’s greedy dowry demands.
    In a special poll set up on the site, 96 per cent of the 10,000 voters supported her decision to call the police. The BBC also reports that men have been writing in from around the region including a 23-year-old man from Kabul, Afghanistan. He said he was moved by Nisha Sharma’s courage and wished to marry her.
    The release adds that this kind of a phenomenal response is possible only because BBC’s award winning News Online service is the world’s most popular new site and is read by millions of people across the world every day.
    The editor of BBC’s online service at the BBC South Asia Bureau in Delhi, Sanjoy Majumder, was quoted as saying: “The response to the Nisha Sharma story is an example of how her situation has touched people worldwide. Our dedicated South Asia page is part of our effort to extend coverage of the region online and bring a diverse range of stories to a vast international audience.”