RadioandMusic
| 19 Apr 2024
Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation keen to adopt DRM technology, joins DRM Consortium

NEW DELHI: Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation – Radio Pakistan – has expressed interest in adopting Digital Radio Mondiale and has joined the DRM Consortium.

PBC DG Syed Imran Gardezi said, “The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation is interested in introducing the latest digital technologies for the benefit of the Pakistani listeners. We are happy to join the DRM Consortium as we are embarking on the modernisation and digitisation of our infrastructures”.

DRM Chairman Ruxandra Obreja sajd this was “a serious commitment of PBC which is a public broadcaster to the latest radio technologies like the DRM standard and a chance for the DRM Consortium to strengthen its position in Asia and to learn more from an important market like Pakistan”.

PBC provides a wide range of radio and news services broadcast on TV, internet and radio and in almost two dozen languages used in Pakistan. Outside Pakistan PBC broadcasts in more than half a dozen languages.