Status of FM broadcasting in Kathmandu valley.

Status of FM broadcasting in Kathmandu valley.
Broadcasting is the dissemination of message into the air over an assigned frequency which is received by the receiving sets and is decoded to the audiences. That is it is the producing and designing media content to appeal to a broad audience segment and offered on air ways to a large no of people. Broadcasting includes radio and television. Radio was invented first as a means of broadcast. After James c. Maxwell predicted about the radio wave, Heinrich hertz discovered it after the decades. Marconi was the first person to transform message without wire in 1895. Radio receiving set was invented in 1806 and that was called vacuum tube. The today’s transistor was discovered in American in 1936. in Nepal first formal broadcasting station was established in 2007 chaitra 20. Prior to this ‘prajantra radio’ had come to the existence in Bhojpur, which as latter sifted to Biratnagar. Radio Nepal was the only radio station they was toiling to quench the hunger of the information to the Nepalese people through broadcasting. Later, Nepal television was established formally in 14th poush 2042. and then a F.M. radio was launched by radio Nepal in 2052bs. And in 2054 the first nongovernmental broadcasting station Sagarmatha f m was in the country. After that many fm stations were established in the country not only in the valley but also in the moffosuel.
FM radio stations had given emphasis to the news programs along with other entertaining and educational programs. Mostly the stations in the valleys are acquired of just airing the chief entertainment programs through some of them are known for the news broadcast ad quenching the information thirst of the people the interval of every hour. we can list thecharacterof the fm news broadcast as follows: -
Frequent airing of news bulletins: there are FMs which broadcast news in every in e hours in valley. This had helped people be up to date with the various happenings in and across the county.
Live reporting from the spot. The radios stations are emphasizing live reporting live reporting from the spot. Like, live reporting of the people’s movement from the spot.
Because the radio sets are available at a very cheap cost the news are also serving the lower strata of the population as well. It is seen that people at work may it be at the shops or offices are even at fields other work carry radio because it is available in very handy and portable size like that of lighter. So the audiences of FM news listeners seem larger than that of other news media.
The above mentioned points are the food aspects of fm news broadcast in valley. The following points are the negative aspects of the FM radio broadcast.
1. Lack of originality. They copy news from broadsheet dailies
2. Repetition of the same news throughout the day they seem lazy rewriting the news, in another style and format.
3. Poor grammar is another weakness of the fm news. Many grammatical mistakes
4. Lack of diversity in language and content. They seem to have failed to have failed to broadcast local languages like Tamang, Newari etc .They are giving the political news only.
5. Just gives what is seen in the surface.
6. No attempt to investigate inside the story