Private FM radio channels left out of economic package send SOS message to Centre

The private FM Radio sector left out of the Centre’s Rs 20 lakh crore economic package has sent an SOS message to Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar to remind the government about the crisis being faced by the sector.

The Association of Radio Operators for India, an industry body of private FM channels, told the government that the sector had been looking at the government with hope to help the sector survive.

“We have watched closely with hope the economic packages announced by the Finance Minister over the past week. However, we are deeply pained to note that none of these measures has any effect whatsoever on the private FM Radio sector,” AROI president Anurradha Prasad said in a letter to the Union I&B minister on Tuesday.