Special broadcasts by AIR for Republic Day 2020

Special broadcasts by All India Radio for Republic Day 2020

India is celebrating its 71st Republic Day on 26 Jan 2020 (Sunday). All India Radio will broadcast special programs in connection with the Republic Day celebrations as follows:

25th January 2020 (Saturday) : Eve of Republic Day

1330 UTC (1900 IST) onwards Hon'ble President's address to the nation in Hindi and English. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR on MW, SW, FM. Shortly after this broadcast, the local stations will broadcast its translations in local languages.

SW frequencies:

kHz kW Station

4760 7 Leh

4800 50 Hyderabad

4810 50 Bhopal

4835 10 Gangtok

4910 50 Jaipur

4920 50 Chennai

4950 30 Srinagar

5010 50 Thiruvananthapuram

5040 50 Jeypore

5050 10 Aizawl

6030 250 Delhi

9380 250 Aligarh

9865 500 Bengaluru

MW Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm

FM Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm

Also on DTH Channels/ airlivenews 24x7

26 January 2019 (Sunday) : Republic Day

Live running commentary of Republic Day parade & cultural pageant from 0345 UTC (0915 IST) onwards :

Hindi : 7520 (Delhi 250 kW) (Cancelling External Service in Urdu normally broadcast at this time on these frequency), 9950 (Delhi 100 kW), 13695 (Bengaluru 500 kW)

English : 6030 (Delhi 250 kW); 15185 (Bengaluru 500 kW)

Also MW/FM frequencies as per above mentioned links.

The following regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies on 60 Meters (4 & 5 MHz frequencies) to their day time frequencies between 0335-0350 UTC (ie much earlier than usual) as follows :

6000 Leh

6085 Gangtok

7325 Jaipur

The following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at this time and will also relay the running commentary.

5040 Jeypore

6110 Srinagar

7270 Chennai

7290 Thiruvanthapuram

7380 Chennai

7420 Hyderabad

7430 Bhopal

9865 Bengaluru

Please send your reception reports on line at: http://pbinfo.air.org.in/feedback/

or by email to: spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in

Live streaming of the above programs is available in:

http://allindiaradio.gov.in/

Those who would like to watch the programs on Doordarshan TV can check in:

DD National Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/DoordarshanNational

DD News Channel:http://webcast.gov.in/live/

Happy Republic Day to all DX_India members!

73,

Jose Jacob and Alokesh Gupta

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