Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation

Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation
Radio station (Corporation ( under public law ; December 20, 1972))
reception	analogue terrestrial , satellite , web radio
Reception area	Pakistan
Start of transmission	August 14, 1947
Intendant	Shafqat Jalil (2017)
List of radio stations
Website

The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation ( PBC for short ), also known as Radio Pakistan ( Urdu ریڈیو پاکستان), is the public broadcaster of Pakistan .

history

Jinnah had already used All India Radio as a medium before the founding of the state of Pakistan . Radio Pakistan started as the Pakistan Broadcasting Service on the night of August 13-14, 1947 ( Independence Day ). Three All India Radio transmitters were located on the territory of the new state and were taken over: Lahore (opened in 1928/37, former callsign VUL), Peshawar (1935/42, VUP) and Dacca (1939, VUY). Rawalpindi (APR) and Karachi (APK) followed in 1948, Hyderabad (APH) in 1951 and Quetta (APQ) in 1956. The first general manager was Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (until 1959). 1951 the new domicile in the Garden Road, Karachi was moved; 1967 the Ferozsons building in Rawalpindi .

In 1972 it was converted into a corporation, albeit with strong state influence. The World Service started in 1973. In 1977 the broadcasting center opened in Islamabad. Started in 1998 FM 101 with FM -use followed by FM 93 and Planet 94 in 2009. 2013 was the National Broadcasting Service (NBS; since 2008) in a News and Current Affairs Channel converted (NCAC), and in 2014 went FM 94 Varsa at the start, renamed Dhanak ('rainbow') in 2018 .

Currently (2016) 70 terrestrial transmitters are operated: 43 VHF , 23 MW , 4 KW .

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Medium wave transmitter map

List of Directors General

1. 1947–1959 Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (ذوالفقار علی بخاری)
2. 1959–1962 Rashid Ahmad
3. 1962–1965 Zahur Azar
4. 1966–1969 Syed Munir Husain
5. 1969–1971 Mafizur Rahman
6. 1971–1972 Syed Ijlal Haider Zaidi
7. 1972–1974 Khwaja Shahid Hosain
8. 1974–1977 Syed Ijlal Haider Zaidi
9. 1977–1984 Qazi Ahmad Saeed (قاضی احمد سعید)
10. 1984–1986 Khawja Ghulam Murtaza
11. 1986-1988 Saleem A. Gilani
12. 1988-1990 Agha Nasir
13. 1990-1991 Saleem A. Gilani
14. 1991-1992 Agha Nasir
15. 1992–1995 Abdul Khaliq Awan
16. 1995–1997 Mohammad Abbas
17. 1997–1998 Khwaja Ijaz Sarwar
18. 1998-2000 S. Anwar Mahmood
19. 2000-2002 Salim Gul Shaikh
20. 2002-2006 Amir Tariq Imam
21. 2006–2007 Ashfaq Ahmad Gondal
22. 2007-2008 Javed Akhtar
23. 2008–2013 Ghulam Murtaza Solangi (غلام مرتضیٰ سولنگی)
24. 2013–2015 Samina Parvez Khalid
25. 2015-2016 Muhammad Imran Gardezi
26. 2016–2017 Saba Mohsin Raza
27. 2017– Shafqat Jalil

Web links

• NCAC (Rawalpindi, 1152 kHz)
  • Schedule
  • News videos on Facebook
• Islamabad Station (585 kHz)
• FM 94 Dhanak (دھنک)
• FM 101 Islamabad
  • FM 101 Mirpur
  • FM 101 Karachi
  • FM 101 Peshawar
  • FM 101 Mianwali
• Saut ul Quran (صوت القرآن, FM 93.5)
• World Service (Urdu); External Service (Bangla, Nepali, Hindi, Gujrati, Sinhali, Tamil, Pushto, Dari); HF frequencies

literature

• Nihal Ahmad: A history of Radio Pakistan . Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-597870-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Shahjahan Sayed: Radio Pakistan . Historical development and present. Lit, Münster 1988, ISBN 3-88660-445-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ on about June 3, 1947
2. ↑ Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Act (No. XXXII of 1973)
3. ^ Chronology of PBC
4. ↑ http://omp.radio.gov.pk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FM%20Transmitters.pdf
5. ↑ ^{a b} http://omp.radio.gov.pk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MW%20Transmitters.pdf
6. ↑ http://omp.radio.gov.pk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SW%20Transmitters.pdf

See also

• Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV)