BOMBAY (PTI): British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has plans to expand its Hindi radio service to India and diversify its transmissions into several Indian languages as part of an overall
Effort to strengthen its met work in south Asia Editor of BBC’s south Asia report Alexander Thomson said last week.
Addressing a press conference here with BBC Veteran Mark Tully Thomson said an FM transmission station would soon be started in Dhaka Bangladesh to beam radio broadcasts in Bengali and English. The setting up of an FM station in India would be explored in the new climate of liberalization he noted.
Thomson said a new office with more staff was planned in Delhi for BBC Hindi service for producing radio programs in Hindi instead of the present practice of translating English broadcasts. Tully said British people would see more of south Asia with the New Delhi unit.
However the radio network would be spread to south India as well “as India is much larger than just Delhi.” Tully emphasized that since BBC’s view was “not London or Euro-Centric” it was increasingly trying to engage services of regional journalists instead of “sending red-faced Englishmen from London.” Thomson said from April 4 this year the duration of “South Asia report” a 15-minute daily current affairs program on BBC world service radio would be doubled to comprehensively cover hard news from the region besides more business development environment and sports
Article extracted from this publication >> March 11, 1994
