Wednesday, January 10, 2007

BBC launches new Bengali transmission

Dear listener,
You may have heard from our programmes that we are going to launch a NEWdawn transmission from Thursday January 11, 2007. This will be a half-hour programme, with news and current affairs, live contributionsfrom Dhaka, Delhi and Kolkata, press reviews, sports, culture etc.
The new dawn will be broadcast at 7am India time, on 31 metreband (9560kHz) and 25 metreband (11995 kHz) on the shortwave.
Please let the listeners' clubs, your friends, neighbours in yourlocality know of the new transmission.
Also, on Jan 8, 9 and 10, we will be testing the two frequencies . TheEnglish news will be broadcast for half an hour on the above twofrequencies at 7am-7.30am, to see how effective they are. Would it bepossible for some listeners in West Bengal, Assam or Tripura to monitorthese test tranmissions on those three days? Please request them, andpass on the feedback to me immediately afterwards.
Regards
Amita PalBBC WS Marketing, Communications & AudienceNew Delhi
(Source: Alokesh Gupta, India/Cumbre DX)