Radio and Programs

Radio Pakistan through its 31 stations located at as many places

in the country as on air for more than 300 hours daily in the
Home Service using 21 languages and reaches 80% of the area
and 96.5% of the population of the country. Nearly half the time is
devoted to information and education and remaining half to
entertainment. In its programme-fare PBC makes use of all the
formats in order to reach its listeners by catering to their
interests. Programme fare is a balanced combination of
information entertainment specially music and education.
General programme categories are music (48%), religious
(12.5%), News and current affairs (25%), Women Children and
Labour (5%), Youth-Students (3%), Forces (2%), Rural & Farm
(10%),Drama/Features (2%), Publicity Campaigns (2%) and
Science, Technology, Health (2%) and Sports (2.5%). Radio gives
special attention to sports because in games like Cricket and
Squash, Pakistan produced players whose international records
cannot be easily broken. Jehangir Khan and Jan Sher Khan are
such players who won all the international Squash matches for
years together.
 MUSIC
continues to remain the dominant feature of Radio Pakistan entertainment
programmes. Composers as well as fans of music have always recognized
the contribution made by Radio Pakistan in producing artists who excelled
in all genres of music including classical, light, folk, qawali, pop and
instrumental. All those artists who are famous today in Pakistan and abroad
owe their early artistic development and training to Radio Pakistan. Above
all, it was radio which was instrumental in popularizing film music in the
early 50's and 60's and later the 'Ghazal ' singing in which the leadership of
Radio Pakistan remains unchallenged even today. Radio is the real abode of
all those who are touching the heights of fame today whether it is music in
the oriental tradition, sounds blended with spirituality or music born out of
synthesis of oriental and modern popular music. One such artist, the
foundations of whose fame were laid by Radio was Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
for whom the international magazine 'TIME' wrote in its September '97 issue
that:
"His mesmerizing voice captured fans worldwide when he teamed up with
British pop stat Peter Gabriel and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, earning him a
1996 Grammy nomination for his work on the soundtrack of Dead Man
walking. He was a cultural ambassador in South Asia. His piercing
interpretations of qawwali-mystical Sufi Muslim poetry set to music- were
steeped in personal history. London's clubs are still busy in pumping out
Khan's dance remixes and his cassettes will remain as powerful musical
legacy".
PROGRAMME FARE
HOME SERVICE LANGUAGES
Details of Radio Stations in Pakistan
2005
Province - Punjab

S.No Radio Station Power of  Type  Frequency

TX(In kw) of TX
         
 1 Islamabad 1000 MW 585 KHz
2*250  SW  
2*100 SW
2*100 SW
1*10 SW

         
 2 Rawalpindi 10 MW 1260 KHz
  10 SW  
  100 MW 1152 KHz
Rawalpindi-III 100 SW  
         
 3 Lahore 100 MW 630   KHz
50 MW 1080 KHz
         
 4 Multan 120 M 1035 KHz
W

         
5 Bahawalpu 10 M 1341 KHz
r W

         
 6 Faisalabad 10 M 1476 KHz
W
Province - NWFP

S.No Radio Station Power of  Type  Frequency

TX(In  of 
kw) T
X
         
1 Peshawar 300 MW 540 KHz
100  MW 729 KHz
01 MW 540 KHz
     
         
 2 D.I.Khan 10 MW 1404 KHz
   
         
3 Abbottabad 0.25 MW 1602  KHz
     
         
 4 Chitral 0.25 MW 1584  KHz
Province - Sindh
S.No Radio Station Power of  Type  Frequency
TX(In  of 
kw) T
X
         
1 Karachi 100 MW 828 KHz
100 MW 639 KHz
10 MW 612 KHz
01 MW 828 KHz
     
         
 2 Hyderabad 120 MW 1008 KHz
  10 MW 1098 KHz
 
         
 3 Khairpur 100 MW 927  KHz
     
         
 4 Larkana 01 FM 101  MHz
Province - Balochistan

S.No Radio Station Power of  Type  Frequency

TX(In  of 
kw) T
X
         
1 Quetta 150 MW 756 KHz
10 MW 855 KHz
10 SW  
   
         
2 Sibbi 0.25 MW 1584 KHz
     
         
3 Khuzdar 300 MW 567 KHz
     
         
 4 Turbat 01 MW 1584  MHz
Nothern Area

S.No Radio Station Power of  Type  Frequency

TX(In  o
kw) f 
T
X
         
1 Gilgit 10 MW 1512 KHz
   
 

         
2 SKardu 10 MW 1557 KHz
     
Azad Jamu & Kashmir

S.No Radio Station Power of  Type  Frequency

TX(In  of 
kw) T
X
         
1 Muzaffarabad 150 MW 792  KHz
01 MW  
   
         
2 Mirpur 10 MW 936  KHz
  100 MW 936 KHz
   
 Pakistan Standard Time (PST)
STATION
TIME
HAYA ALLAL FALAH
0545 - 0715 Hours
Frequency

SAUT UL QURAN
0715 - 1200 Hours
Frequnecy

1200 - 1400 Hours FM 101

1400 - 1800 Hours

ISLAMABAD STATION

NEWS & CURRENT

1800 - 2100 Hours
AFFAIRS CHANNEL

2100 - 0000 Hours ISLAMABAD STATION

 Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast Transmis
Frequency sion
Radio Station MW in KHZ Hours in
FM in MHZ PST
0800-
Peshawar 540,729
2302 hrs

0820-
Lahore 630,1080
2400 hrs

0800-530
Rawalpindi 102(FM)
hrs

0810-
Karachi
828,639 2400 hrs

0800-
Rawalpindi-I 1260
2308 hrs
 0810-2405
Hyderabad 1008, 1098
hrs

1730-1830
Rawalpindi-II 792
hrs

0810-2310
Quetta 756,855
hrs

0800-2400
Multan 1035
hrs
 0800-
Multan 1035
2400 hrs

1350-
Bahawalpur 1341
2310 hrs

1745-
Islamabad 585,101(FM)
2230 hrs

1504-
Gilgit 1512
2200 hrs

1500-
Skardu 1557
2200 hrs

1604-
Turbat 1584
2310 hrs
 1355-
D I Khan 1404
2105 hrs

0824-
Khairpur 927
2308 hrs

1715-
Khuzdar 567
2310 hrs

0800-
Faisalabad 1476
1715 hrs

1345-
Abbottabad 1602
1915 hrs

Sibi(Relaying 1255-
1584
station) 1615 hrs
Chitral(Relay of 1545-
Peshawar 1584 2030
programmes) hrs

0850-
Larkana 101(FM) 2404
hrs

1700-
Zhob 1449 2107
hrs

1645-
Loralai 1251 2115
hrs
Centre Of Mass Communication

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Husain Ahmad
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