The state-run China Radio International’s(CRI) Tamil radio station, the most popular of its more than 60 international channels, marked its 49th anniversary here on July 29,2012 Sunday announcing plans to expand its presence in India by launching broadcasts on local FM radio stations.
CRI Tamil, which broadcasts on shortwave in Tamil Nadu where it has an extensive network of listeners’ clubs run by 25,000 registered listeners, is in talks with FM radio stations in Chennai to launch a daily two-hour broadcast, Zhao Jiang, CRI Tamil’s director, told.
CRI Tamil held a quiet celebration to mark its anniversary here on Sunday, inviting members of Beijing’s Tamil community, mostly from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka.
CRI Tamil launched an FM broadcast on Colombo’s FM 102 station in 2010, a move that has enabled it to expand its listeners’ base in Sri Lanka.The channel now broadcasts for four hours in Sri Lanka every day, at 1.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
CRI’s Urdu channel launched FM broadcasts in Pakistan in 2010.
CRI was founded in 1941, before the People’s Republic was established, at the Communists’ revolutionary base in Yanan. It broadcasts in 61 languages today, with 3,000 hours of daily programming.The Tamil station, launched in 1963, is widely popular for its programmes on Chinese culture and language. Its content generally refrains from engaging with overtly political issues, and devotes much of its attention to the arts.
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