Thursday, January 24, 2019

Special annual AIR Republic Day broadcast schedule 2019


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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