British Broadcasting Corporation is the world's largest organization founded in 1922 runs 10 TV channels and 58 radio channels. BBC is going to stop their Hindi news service Since 27th March 2011. British Broadcasting Corporation has declared that they are going to shut down their programs in 17 languages including Hindi. People all over world can listen the BBC programs in all languages. People all over the world can listen Hindi programs on following frequencies :
Shortwave - 5915, 7435, 9395, 11795, 15470 KHz
Mediumwave - 1413 KHz
To listen Hindi news, click below :
India
Now a days,
They are also preparing to make it live broadcast on website too with radio. Very soon, it will be available.
Shortwave - 5915, 7435, 9395, 11795, 15470 KHz
Mediumwave - 1413 KHz
To listen Hindi news, click below :
Why BBC is different than others news services ?
BBC Hindi services is still the most popular news media in India. Billions of people believe on the news broadcast by BBC. Today is the era of electronic media and internet. There is a lot of government and privately owned channels to broadcast news 24 hours in a day. These news channels focus on the those news which can increase their TRP. Sometimes, they repeat the same news whole day. Sometimes these news channels also accept political interfere. Due to competition among news channels, news don’t remains a news. News misses their original format and purpose and become a thrilling event. These news are full of commercial advertisements.
Did you get a chance to listen the BBC radio programs? If you listen, you can easily find the difference. It covers news all over the world in 30 minutes program. The best thing in BBC news is that it provides additional information related with that particular news. It is free from commercial advertisement, any political or governmental interfere. It is not only popular due to unavailability of other radio news channels instead quality in all aspects.
BBC radio programs is available on website too.
BBC has been broadcasting Hindi news services since last 70 years in Now a days,
They are also preparing to make it live broadcast on website too with radio. Very soon, it will be available.
Why BBC is going to shut down its Hindi radio service?
BBC has announced that peoples all over the world can listen the last radio program in 17 languages on 26th March due to financial crisis. As per the BBC constitution, it is a non-profit commercially free organization which depends on the fund allotted by foreign and commonwealth department of British government. Its correct that, British economy is struggling and the government is reducing the budget of all departments. So, shutting down its radio service in 17 language is a part of global cost cutting effort. How much BBC will save after shutting down radio programs only while continuing the collection of news and making it available on Internet to read and listen.
Can availability of BBC radio programs on internet be a substitute of radio?
In India only, there are around 9 millions of regular listeners who never miss to listen at least one program sessioin. They start their day with first session @ 6:30 am IST and end the day @9:30pm IST. They prefer to listen BBC news instead regional and national news broadcast by All India Radio. No one can predict about how much popular is BBC news in India! In remote areas, people keep the radio very closer to their ears just to listen the news clear. Only one purpose behind purchasing the radio is to listen BBC news. In villages, people gather together in the evening at some place, listen the BBC news collectively and go to their home only when BBC finish their news for that session.
Availability of BBC news along with regularly updating text, pictures, audios and videos on Mobile
BBC was much popular in India as well as whole world due to its radio service in almost all important languages. As world is changing, BBC also changing itself with with the same pace. With the age of Internet, it became available on its website. With radio we can listen news only 4 times a day while on website we can check the updated news and listen their programs as per our availability. There is no need to leave all the tasks to listen BBC news. If we like something and want to listen again, we can repeat it.
Looking forward, one step ahead, BBC makes its website responsive - compatible for all types of mobile devices - every mobile, tabs, laptop etc without scrolling horizontally. So, we can read news, view awesome picture gallery, listen important audios, watch videos and BBC news in our own language from anywhere at anytime. It just required a good internet connection on Mobile. In metropolitan cities, 3G service is available everywhere and even with 2G speed with minimum buffering we can enjoy BBC services in remote rural areas.
In a single word, we can say proudly - We are carrying our whole BBC services in our pocket.
Availability of BBC news along with regularly updating text, pictures, audios and videos on Mobile
BBC was much popular in India as well as whole world due to its radio service in almost all important languages. As world is changing, BBC also changing itself with with the same pace. With the age of Internet, it became available on its website. With radio we can listen news only 4 times a day while on website we can check the updated news and listen their programs as per our availability. There is no need to leave all the tasks to listen BBC news. If we like something and want to listen again, we can repeat it.
Looking forward, one step ahead, BBC makes its website responsive - compatible for all types of mobile devices - every mobile, tabs, laptop etc without scrolling horizontally. So, we can read news, view awesome picture gallery, listen important audios, watch videos and BBC news in our own language from anywhere at anytime. It just required a good internet connection on Mobile. In metropolitan cities, 3G service is available everywhere and even with 2G speed with minimum buffering we can enjoy BBC services in remote rural areas.
In a single word, we can say proudly - We are carrying our whole BBC services in our pocket.
