Staff Reporter
A week long national workshop on “Digital Radio Migration” (DRM) plan began at Pakistan Broadcasting Academy Monday. Over-thirty engineering professionals of Radio Pakistan and private sector are attending the workshop.
Addressing the participants on opening day of the workshop, Director General, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, Ambreen Jan said Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Radio Pakistan’s top management are making hectic efforts to execute Digital Radio Migration Plan in three phases to switch over to digital technology from the existing obsolete analog approach.
She said the management is determined to take timely measures to infuse a new life in the production and presentation of news and programmes of the State Broadcaster by shifting over to modern digital transmission system, having crystal clear sound quality without noise and distortion with cost effectiveness.
Ambreen Jan said Digital Radio Migration (DRM) policy for Radio Pakistan has already been approved by its Board of Directors in January this year while PBC engineers had successfully conducted the trial of DRM, FM-transmission at National Broadcasting House, Islamabad.
She said the PC-1 of the DRM plan has been prepared at a cost of 176.882 million rupees and submitted to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for its approval by the competent forum of Planning Commission.
Director Engineering, PBC, Kamran Saeed informed the participants that as per pilot project, the existing digital-enabled 400 KW medium wave transmitter Peshawar and 100 KW medium wave transmitter D.I.Khan will be upgraded to operate on simulcast (analaog+digital) mode as well as pure digital mode.
