India is celebrating its 70th Republic Day on Saturday, 26 Jan 2019, All India Radio will broadcast special programs in connection with the Republic Day celebrations as follows:
Friday, January 2019 (Friday) - Eve of Republic Day
1330 UTC (1900 IST) onwards Hon’ble President's address to the nation in Hindi & English. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR on MW, SW, FM. Shortly after this broadcast, the local stations will broadcast its translations in local languages.
SW frequencies
kHz kW Station
4760 7 Leh
4760 8 Port Blair
4800 50 Hyderabad
4810 50 Bhopal
4835 10 Gangtok
4895 50 Kurseong
4910 50 Jaipur
4920 50 Chennai
4950 30 Srinagar
4970 50 Shillong (Off Air)
5010 50 Thiruvananthapuram
5040 50 Jeypore
5050 10 Aizawl (Off Air)
6030 250 Delhi
9380 250 Aligarh
9865 500 Bengaluru
MW Frequencies http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm
FM Frequencies http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm
26 January 2019 (Saturday) : Republic Day
Live running commentary of Republic Day parade & cultural pageant from 0345 UTC (0915 IST) onwards :
Hindi : 7520 (Delhi 250 kW) (Cancelling External Service in Urdu normally broadcast at this time on these frequency), 9950 (Delhi 100 kW), 13695 (Bengaluru 500 kW)
English : 6030 (Delhi 250 kW); 15185 (Bengaluru 500 kW)
Also MW/FM frequencies as per above mentioned links.
The following regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies on 60 Meters (4 & 5 MHz frequencies) to their day time frequencies between 0335-0350 UTC (ie much earlier than usual) as follows :
6000 Leh (Off Air)
6085 Gangtok
7315 Shillong (Off Air)
7325 Jaipur
The following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at this time and will also relay the running commentary.
5040 Jeypore
6110 Srinagar
7270 Chennai
7290 Thiruvanthapuram
7380 Chennai
7390 Port Blair
7420 Hyderabad
7430 Bhopal
9865 Bengaluru
Please send your reception reports on line at: http://pbinfo.air..org.in/feedback/ or by email to: spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in
Live streaming of the above programs is available at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx
Those who would like to watch the programs on Doordarshan TV may refer to the following links
DD National Channel
http://www.ddindia.gov.in/Pages/Home.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/user/DoordarshanNational
DD News Channel http://webcast.gov.in/live/
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