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Brief History of Radio in Pakistan

When Pakistan came into being there were three radio stations:

1. Lahore (1928)
2. Peshawar (1935)
3. Dhaka (1938)

• New stations were opened in different parts of

the country after independence.

• In 1972 Radio Pakistan was converted into

Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation

• At national level Radio Pakistan reaches to 80

per cent of the total area of the country.

• Its Population-wise reach is 96.5 per cent.

• Private radio in Pakistan

Before 1994 air waves in Pakistan were the monopoly of the state however, in 1994 the deregulation of airwaves started in the country when the first private owned radio station (FM100) was established, which started its regular transmission from March 23, 1995 (FM 100 Pakistan, 2002). Since then there is a mushroom growth in the number of FM radio stations in the country.

• the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory

Authority (PEMRA) has issued 126 licences of

FM radio stations (community radio stations).

• • PEMRA is an official body that was

established by the Musharraf government on

1-3- 2002 to look into the functioning and

affairs of electronic media in the country.

• In addition to the authorised and licensed FM stations by PEMRA various individuals and groups are also running illegal FM channels in different areas of the country. In 2006 there were 62 and 49 illegal FM radio stations in settled, and Federally-Administered Tribal Areas/ Provincially-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata and Pata) respectively.
• PEMRA is working against these stations, and some of them have also been closed down but some are still working. These illegal FM stations are spreading religious extremism.

A Short history of Television in Pakistan

• Television broadcasting started in Pakistan on 26.11. from Lahore.
• The government with the help of Nippon Electronic Company (NEC)of Japan set up a pilot television station in Lahore, and on October 26, 1964 television transmission went on air for the first time in the country.
• Later on other centers were established:
• Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1965 (then the capital of East Pakistan, a third centre was established in Rawalpindi/Islamabad in 1965 and the fourth in Karachi in 1966. Later centres in Peshawar and Quetta were established by 1974

• The size of television viewers in Pakistan is about 50 million. Out of them 37 million are adults (18 years and above) and 13 million are children (under 18), while the estimated viewers’ size by 2010 is 100 million (Gilani, 2003). According to Gallup Pakistan a total of 59 per cent of the population watch television, 44 percent regularly and 15 per cent casually. Eighteen per cent out of them are viewers of satellite television.

• Private television in Pakistan private television transmissions were started in the 1990 in Pakistan. The Network Television Marketing (NTM) Was Pakistan's First Ever Private Sector Television Channel. The NTM Had Started Its Transmission in 1990. However, these private broadcasts were mainly entertainment-oriented. The people could watch free and objective news, and bold and pluralistic talk shows here only after 2000 when Indus Vision, ARY, Geo TV, Aaj TV, and some other private news television channels began their transmissions. The Pemra has issued licenses to 84 private channels. Operational : 69 Non-operational : 15