A veteran broadcaster, Tapa Nath Shukla, has been appointed Executive Director of Radio Nepal. Mr Shukla, who joins from the Ministry of Information and Communications, is a former head of both Radio Nepal and Nepal Television. His appointment was announced after a cabinet meeting in Kathmandu. He succeeds Ram Sharan Karki, who has been Radio Nepal’s Executive Director for nearly three years.
Radio Nepal was established in 1951 and broadcasts on shortwave, mediumwave and FM, as well as online at www.radionepal.org. In recent years it has been seeking to move from a state-run station to a public service broadcaster in the face of stiff competition from many commercial radio stations.
(Source: Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)