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Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation
This article is about the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. For other uses of the term, see PBC (disambiguation).
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| Type | Government Organization |
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| Country |  Pakistan |
| Availability | National |
| Motto | قُولُوا لِلنَّاسِ حُسْناً from Qur'an 2:83; "Speak to men good (words)" |
| Launch date | August 14, 1947 |
| Former names | Pakistan Broadcasting Service |
| Former affiliations | Indian State Broadcasting Service |
| Official website | Official website |
The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) or Radio Pakistan is the state-run radio service of Pakistan.
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History
The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, popularly called Radio Pakistan came into being as Pakistan Broadcasting Service on 14 August 1947 when Pakistan emerged on the world map as a new country. 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 (established in 1939), Lahore (1937) and Peshawar (1936. A major program 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 new 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 computerization of the PBC news processing system and availability of the news bulletins on the Internet in text and audio form.FM 101 Channel of PBC was launched on 1st oct 1998 having stations at islamabad,lahore and karachi and now this channel have nine stations throughout Pakistan and is the biggest FM Radio network of Pakistan.
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. In last two and a half years three new networks have been launched by PBC. On August 28, 2008 PBC launched National Broadcasting Service (NBS) the first dedicated Current Affairs Channel. It is a combination of 5 (100 KW) AM transmitters permanently linked together to broadcast a single national program beamed across Pakistan. Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta and Karachi are the main stations generating the national programming. It is a 17 hours programming on major national and international issues, target audience and literary and cultural programs. PBC launched a new Community FM channel after February 2009 Station Director Conference. The network is called FM-93 Network with 22 stations across Pakistan. Gilgit, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Abbottabad, Chitral, Bannu, Kohat, Dera Ismail Khan, Sargodha, Mianwali, Faislabad, Lahore, Multan, Larkana, Khairpur,Bhit Shah, Hyderabad, Mithi, Karachi and Gwadar transmit the FM 93 network. On November 14 PBC launched its first English Music Channel in Islamabad called Planet 94. The network operates on FM 94. The second and third stations of the English channel are soon to start their transmissions from Lahore and Karachi.
Legal basis
The PBC Act of 1973[1] contains inter alia provisions concerning management (chapter III, ss. 4−9) and finance (chapter VI, ss. 13−20). According to the act it is among the corporation's functions (chapter IV) "to broadcast such programmes as may promote Islamic ideology, national unity and principles of democracy, freedom equality, tolerance and social justice as enunciated by Islam, discourage parochial, racial, tribal, sectarian, linguistic and provincial prejudices and reflect the urges and aspirations of the people of Pakistan" (s. 10(1)(b)).
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 (NBS = National Broadcasting Service; launched August 28, 2008)
- Sautul Qur'an (religious broadcasting; launched January 26, 1998)
- FM – 101 (service in major towns and cities; launched October 1, 1998)
- FM – 93 (service in major towns and cities)
- FM – 94 (Pakistan First(government owned) all English Channel run from Islamabad and soon to be opened in Karachi. Introduced Raggae, DnB, Garage, Jungle Genre on government operated radio service).
- 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.
External Service
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 34 languages: Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Seraiki, Potowari, Pashto, Hindko, Kohistani, Khowar, Kashmiri, Dhatki, Gojri, Pahari, Burushaski, Balti, Shina, Wakhi, Hazargi, Brahvi, English, Chinese, Dari, Persian, Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Sinhala, Nepali, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bengali.[2]
Regional and International Stations
World Service
Islamabad Capital Territory
Sindh
- Radio Pakistan AM 828 KHZ Karachi
- Radio Pakistan AM 1008 KHZ Hyderabad
- Radio Pakistan AM1000 Larkana
- Radio Pakistan AM 927 KHZ Khairpur
- FM101 Karachi
- FM101 Hyderabad
Punjab
- Radio Pakistan AM1080 Lahore
- Radio Pakistan AM1152 Rawalpindi
- Radio Pakistan AM1035 Multan
- Radio Pakistan AM1341 Bahawalpur
- Radio Pakistan FM93 Faisalabad (Lyallpur)
- FM101 Lahore
- FM93.5 Rawalpindi
- FM101 Faisalabad (Lyallpur)
- FM101 Sialkot
- FM93 Sargodha
- FM93 Mianwali
- AM630 Lahore
- FM101 Multan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Radio Pakistan AM540 Peshawar
- Radio Pakistan AM1400 Dera Ismail Khan
- Radio Pakistan AM1600 Abbottabad
- Radio Pakistan AM1580 Chitral
- FM101 Bannu
- FM101 Kohat
Balochistan
- Radio Pakistan AM750 Quetta
- Radio Pakistan AM1580 Sibi
- Radio Pakistan AM560 Khuzdar
- Radio Pakistan AM1580 Turbat
- FM101 Quetta
- FM101 Gwadar
Northern Areas, Jammu & Kashmir
- Radio Pakistan AM1510 Gilgit (NA)
- Radio Pakistan AM1560 Skardu (NA)
- Radio Pakistan AM780 Muzaffarabad (AJK)
- Radio Pakistan AM936 Mirpur (AJK)
- FM 93 MIRPUR (AJK)
See also
- Radio Pakistan
- List of Pakistani TV and radio Channels
- Pakistan Television
- FM 101
- FM 94 – 1st all English Channel of Pakistan
External links
- Official PBC Radio Pakistan Site
- Wasim Ghani: Is the BBC Urdu Service becoming Pakistan’s National Broadcaster?. In: Global Media Journal, Spring 2009. ISSN 1550-7521
- Radio Pakistan Webpage (English)
- Fire destroys 14 studios of Radio Pakistan - DAWN.com
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