Prasar Bharati invites private content creators on All India Radio

22 April 2026 India’s state-owned public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has issued a formal Notice Inviting Programme Proposals (NIPP), calling on production houses, private producers, content aggregators and...

Akashvani wins six awards at India Audio Summit and Awards 2025

29 April 2025 India’s national broadcaster Akashvani won a total of six awards in various categories at the India Audio Summit and Awards (IASA) 2025. The third edition...

TRAI releases consultation paper for digital radio broadcast policy

2 October 2024 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on ‘Formulating a Digital Radio Broadcast Policy for private Radio broadcasters’. At present,...

India: Let there be independent news on private FM says TRAI

10 September 2023 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released its recommendations on “Issues Related to FM Radio Broadcasting”. It has recommended that private FM radio...

All India Radio goes off air, replaced by Akashvani

5 May 2023 India's government has ordered its public broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR) to be exclusively referred to as Akashvani in all broadcasts from now on. Akashvani,...

AIR Kurseong to be hub of Nepali broadcasting in India

2 April 2023 The All India Radio (AIR) centre in the hill town of Kurseong, West Bengal, has been made the hub of content generation and transmission centre...

India: TRAI seeks views on news on Radio

19 February 2023 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper seeking views on issues related to FM radio broadcasting. As of December 2018,...

Indian government appoints new Prasar Bharati CEO

16 November 2022 India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said that senior IAS officer Gaurav Dwivedi has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of public broadcaster Prasar...

All India Radio appoints new Director General of News Services Division

1 September 2022 Senior Indian Information Service officer, Vasudha Gupta assumed the charge of Director General of News Services Division, All India Radio. A 1989-batch Officer, Gupta has...

National Broadcasting Day commemorates India’s first ever radio broadcast

25 July 2022 Every year on July 23, India celebrates National Broadcasting Day to commemorate the first radio broadcast in India from the Bombay Station under the Indian...

DRM publishes summary of FM trials in India

22 September 2021 Earlier this year, in February and March, the DRM Consortium conducted an extensive trial of the DRM standard in the FM band in New Delhi...

US, Australia and Fiji top three listeners of AIR live streams

15 August 2021 In the latest world rankings on the popularity of All India Radio (AIR) Live-Streams on NewsOnAir App, Fiji displaced United Kingdom to follow United States...

Extending AIR coverage to radio-deprived hilly regions and fringe zones across India

18 April 2021 A note by media specialist Sharad Sadhu I have discovered that there are many radio-deprived citizens living in hilly areas near All India Radio’s...

AIR to expand pure DRM radio services

25 October 2020 After the disruption caused by the pandemic, All India Radio (AIR) decided not only to restart transmissions in pure digital mode but also to...

AIR broadcasts first-ever Sanskrit news magazine

5 July 2020 All India Radio (AIR) broadcast its first-ever news magazine programme in Sanskrit on Saturday, July 4. The programme titled "Sanskrit Saptahiki" is of...

All India Radio’s Director General retires

3 January 2020 Director-General of India’s public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR), Fayyaz Sheheryar retired on Tuesday after a five-year stint at that position. He joined the...

Prasar Bharati’s roadshow on DRM

25 September 2019 India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati held an outreach event on the various services it provides at Bengaluru on Sunday. This included a roadshow...

Letter From Delhi for #WorldRadioDay

12 February 2019 This World Radio Day, Steve Ahern is in Delhi, India. I am writing this year’s WRD letter just after being interviewed on All...

India’s Andaman Nicobar Islands get their first FM station

30 January 2019 FM 100.9 MHz, being broadcast from All India Radio Port Blair, is the 42nd FM Station of Vividh Bharati Network by Prasar Bharati, and...

Prasar Bharati shuts down AIR’s national channel and five regional institutes

6 January 2019 India’s Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has decided to shut down All India Radio’s only national channel to cut costs and to rationalise services. ...

Public Service Broadcasting Day marks Gandhi’s only visit to All India Radio

14 November 2018 India’s public broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR) remembered a visit by Mahatma Gandhi to its studios on Monday. Also known as Father of...

AlR’s year-long celebrations to mark 80 years of External Services

3 October 2018 India’s national broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) plans to mark 80 years of its External Services with year-long celebrations, which began with a cultural...

All India Radio launches streaming services on Amazon’s Alexa

30 September 2018 India’s public broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR), has launched its streaming services on Amazon’s Alexa Smart Speakers. Alexa is a voice-enabled platform led...

‘Don’t look at media through a bipolar prism of East versus West’ #RadioAsia

12 July 2018 Speaking in this morning’s session of Media2020, All India Radio Director General Fayyaz Sheheryar encouraged Eastern and Western media to understand each other better, rather...

All India Radio and Bangladesh Betar to co-produce radio programs

3 June 2018 All India Radio (AIR) and state-run Bangladesh Betar will co-produce radio programs on music, quiz, theatre, tourism and sports among others. The move is aimed...

AIR’s sales arm to celebrate golden jubilee

8 January 2018 The sales unit of All India Radio (AIR), Central Sales Unit (CSU) - which books commercials for all AIR channels nationwide, is preparing to...

Coming soon: All India Radio on Amazon Echo Dot

15 November 2017 All India Radio (AIR) is planning to introduce its services on Amazon’s Echo Dot speakers in the next three to six months. This...

All India Radio to expand global presence

4 October 2017 India’s public broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) is planning to launch services for several countries to boost diplomatic ties and the government’s outreach programmes to...

AIR expands world’s largest DRM deployment

16 August 2017 Nautel Limited has shipped six additional high-power DRM-enabled MW transmitters for deployment at All India Radio, the largest digital broadcasting system in the world....

TRAI initiates consultation on digital radio broadcasting in India

12 July 2017 The Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) has floated a consultation paper on issues related to digital radio broadcasting in India. Currently, terrestrial...