Sanjhi Awaz Radio

Sanjhi Awaz Radio
Broadcast area West Midlands
First air date 15 April 2010
Last air date 30 August 2012
Format Asian
Owner 9 Media

Sanjhi Awaz Radio was an Asian radio station broadcasting on DAB digital radio across the West Midlands area of England, including Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Leamington Spa and Walsall. The station broadcast in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and English in 128 kbit/s, and also streamed on the internet for Windows Media Player.

Background

The station was unable to find funding needed to keep the station on air and was unable to find a buyer or investor and closed its DAB and online streams on 30 August 2012.

Sanjhi Awaz described itself as "Your Voice, Your Radio". The name of the radio station meant "shared voice" as it was broadcast in several languages.

The station manager Gulshan Dhingra, previously worked for Doordarshan and the Sunrise Radio Group.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Ex-Sunrise Radio manager joins Sanjhi Awaz Radio Archived 2010-11-25 at the Wayback Machine.


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