The
Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation
(PBC) is the state-run radio
service of Pakistan
.
History
The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation was formed on 14 August 1947
when Pakistan became independent. It was a direct descendant of the
Indian Broadcasting
Company which later became
All India
Radio.
At independence Pakistan possessed three
radio stations at Dhaka
, Lahore
and Peshawar
.
A major
programme of expansion saw new stations opened at Karachi
and Rawalpindi
in 1948, and a new broadcasting house at Karachi in
1950. This was followed by further stations at
Hyderabad
(1951), Quetta
(1956), a
second station at Rawalpindi (1960) and a receiving centre at
Peshawar (1960).
In 1970,
training facilities were opened in Islamabad
and a station opened at Multan
.
A major
step was the establishment of the Radio Pakistan World Service on
21 April 1973 for overseas Pakistanis followed by new stations at
Khairpur (1974) and Bahawalpur
(1975).
The main
broadcasting unit of PBC at Islamabad moved to the new National
Broadcasting House in 1977 and the service reached the remotest
parts of Pakistan with stations at Gilgit
(1977) and
Skardu
(1977) in the far north and Turbat
(1981) in
the far southwest. From 1981 to 1982 stations and transmitters
were also established at Dera Ismail Khan
, Khuzdar
and Faisalabad
.
Radio
Pakistan opened a new broadcasting house in Khairpur on 7 May 1986,
followed by relay stations in 1989 at Sibi
and Abbottabad
. The remoter parts of the country began to
receive coverage with new stations opened in the 1990s at Chitral
, Loralai
and Zhob
. In
1997, the Federal Minister of Information inaugurated the
computerisation of the PBC news processing system and availability
of the news bulletins on the Internet in text and audio form
.
In
October 1998, Radio Pakistan started FM transmission and over the period
2002–2005, new FM stations were opened at Islamabad, Gwadar
, Mianwali
, Sargodha
, Kohat
, Bannu
and
Mithi.
PBC Services
The PBC provides several services including:
- Home Service (domestic network)
- World Service (for overseas Pakistanis)
- External Service
- PBC News
- News & Current Affairs Channel
- Sautul Qur'an (religious broadcasting)
- FM – 101 (service in major towns and cities)
- FM – 93 (service in major towns and cities)
- National Sound Archives
PBC News
The PBC News service broadcasts 149 news bulletins in 31 languages
daily, covering world, national and regional news as well as
sports, business and weather reports.
Radio Pakistan
Radio Pakistan is the
official international
broadcasting station of Pakistan.
Radio Pakistan was able to start its external services on regular
basis on
1949.
As Pakistan is strategically located and
is a close neighbor of China
, India
, Middle
Eastern countries and Central Asia, it is necessary to use Radio
Pakistan and its external services as an instrument to project the
country's policies in true perspective so that a message of peace
and friendship is disseminated to the world specially to its
neighbors.
The programmes of External Services are so designed as to project
Pakistan's view point on domestic and foreign policy issues.
Another special aim of these services is to disseminate knowledge
about the art, culture, history, values and way of life of its
people among foreign listeners in order to generate feelings of
friendship, goodwill and mutual understanding which help create an
environment of peace and tranquility and make co-existence possible
in the region. They broadcast in 16 languages:
English,
Chinese,
Dari,
Pushto,
Hazaragi,
Persian,
Hindi,
Gujarati,
Tamil,
Sinhala,
Nepali, Turki,
Russian,
Turkish,
Arabic, and
Bangla.
Regional and International Stations
World Service
Islamabad Capital Territory
Sindh
Punjab
Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)
]
Balochistan
Northern Areas, Jammu & Kashmir
See also
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