Prasar Bharati may launch four Doordarshan Channels and two radio channels from the States in the United States. According to sources, if everything goes well, the channels will start beaming by May end this year.
The channels to be launched are DD news, DD India, DD Bengali and DD Punjabi. The Radio channels are FM Rainbow and FM Hindi. The tenders have been awarded to Indians with US citizenship. Hemanth Patel has been given the tender for DD at $ 2,00,000 as non-refundable caution deposit and the tender for radio to H R Shah for $ 50,000. Meanwhile, Prasar Bharati is also launching a mega Hindi serial of 520 episodes on India for the period from 1857 to 2007 called Bharathayana, to be produced and telecast soon by DD. The episodes will be in Hindi with sub-titles in English and other regional languages. It will cover important events of the last 150 years and contain historical, socio-economic problems, culture and heritage, religious events, classical music, drama and folk arts of the country. http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2006/newsfullstory.php?id=1138150995 ++++++++++++++++++ Jaisakthivel, Chennai, India. www.dxersguide.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt