New Delhi, November 12: Government today said it is considering putting in place a more liberal FM radio policy which allows private radio stations to air news, sourcing information from the All India Radio news bulletins.
Secretary in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Raghu Menon said the government will start rolling out the third phase of the FM radio stations soon and is also looking at allowing private radio stations to air news, sourcing content from AIR news bulletins.
“More licences would be given out in the third phase and apart from allowing private radio stations to air news sourced from AIR bulletins, they could also be permitted to give weather reports and employment-related data in their bulletins,” Menon said, while addressing the first conference of the Association of Radio Operators for India (AROI) here.
–Agencies