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All India Radio (AIR) Headquarters in Dehli, India. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Barraclough, who shares the following link from The Sunday Guardian Live<\/a>\u00a0via Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At present, AIR has only two Balochi speaking people who have been helping with the daily one-hour programme transmitted to Balochistan. A senior AIR official, on the condition of anonymity, said, \u201cThere has always been a dearth of Balochi speaking people here. Even before Balochistan got attention in mainstream Indian media, we had been working to improve our Balochi show. For years, we had been writing to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs to help us get some talented people from Balochistan who can work with us on improving content in our Balochi shows. \u201d<\/p>\n

[…]”Since we are gradually switching from short-wave to a web-based service now, all our overseas shows in various languages are already starting to get more human resource. We have more funds to invest on quality of our programmes. Earlier, such funds were largely spent on the maintenance of short-wave machinery.”[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full story.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Barraclough, who shares the following link from The Sunday Guardian Live\u00a0via Facebook: At present, AIR has only two Balochi speaking people who have been helping with the daily one-hour programme transmitted to Balochistan. A senior AIR official, on the condition of anonymity, said, \u201cThere has always been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[52,53,3387,34,4082],"class_list":["post-21204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-air","tag-all-india-radio","tag-mike-barraclough","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5w0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18344,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/all-india-radio-considering-shutting-down-shortwave-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":21204,"position":0},"title":"All India Radio considering shut down of shortwave service?","author":"Thomas","date":"April 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Sunday Guardian Live) AIR mulls shutting down soft power short wave units By AREEBA FALAK\u00a0 The Prasar Bharati Board is contemplating shutting down the short-wave service of the External Services Division (ESD) of All India Radio (AIR) even as a proposal to switch to an affordable internet-based radio service\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"All India Radio (AIR) Headquarters in Dehli, India. 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