FM transmission of Vividh Bharati launched

Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley, who launched the FM transmission, also delivered a message to the listeners of the channel, saying Vividh Bharati services would reach people within a perimeter of 60-65 km with much clarity at all times in all weather conditions.

Vividh Bharati offers a mix of film music, skits, short plays and interactive programmes.It is known to have the largest collection of film and non-film songs in the country.

Speaking to reporters later, Jaitley said that not just the FM mode, mobile applications of several AIR channels will also soon be available.

DD News would also have its mobile phone application, he said.

The I&B minister also said the Doordarshan's 'Kisan' channel could be launched in May.

"We are looking for another date, most probably it will be in May. The preparations for the channel is at a fairly advanced stage," he added.

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People will prefer newspaper over TV news: Rama Pandey

"After the onslaught of satellite channels in the country, the quality of news has deteriorated with everything being sensationalised and running of exciting yellow stories. These channels have damaged the art of news presenting," Pandey said.

Pandey, who wears multiple hats, of an anchor, author, producer-cum-director celebrated here late last evening, the airing of 250 episodes of her TV series 'Jaane Apna Desh'.

The travelogue has touched and covered many known and lesser known facts of India and its rich heritage and culture. "There is too much analysis going on in these channels which eventually kills the subject and the news in totality. I believe a presenter should be calm and composed and subdued. These traits help the presenter or the anchor to put across the information in a proper way," Pandey said.

"News nowadays is a chaos on the screen," Pandey said. The multi-faceted personality who writes poetry and prose uses both the mediums of communication audio-visual as well as the written, sheds light on the fact that the language of news needs to change and people cannot tolerate such chaos on screen for long.

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