Association of Radio Operators for India asks Sonia Gandhi to withdraw suggestion

The Association of Radio Operators for India (AROI) has opposed Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s recommendation to impose a two-year ban on media advertisements by the government and public sector. The Congress president had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday with a 5-point list of things that the government should do. One of them was to conserve funds by cutting back on advertisements unless these were linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a statement, the AROI, a body of private FM channels in the country, said it was strongly opposed to this point. “The last year has been a very difficult one for Radio, especially for radio stations in small towns, due to a huge drop in Government advertising,” the association said.