- AIR FM Rainbow
AIR FM Rainbow is a group of FM radio channels across
India . It is run byAll India Radio , a government owned enterprise. It featuresHindi /Tamil and regional language songs and occasional English songs along with hourly news in English,regional language and/or Hindi. InTrichy , it operates on 102.1 Megahertz in Tamil language covering more than 12 districts of Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, it is also known as "Rainbow FM". In Delhi, it operates on 102.6 Megahertz and AIR FM Rainbow Delhi is the only FM Channel to be aired in as many as ten cities. In Mumbai, it operates on 107.1 megahertz. InLucknow , it uses the 100.7 MHz slot. Invizag , it operates on 102 megahertz. In hyderabad, it operates on 101.9 megahertz and in Vijayawada it operates on 102.2 megahertz. It operates inBangalore as well with a frequency of 101.3. It was earlier called FM Metro, the name was changed to FM Rainbow in 2002.The signals of this station are very strong and it catches till the far villages. the channel plays various genres of music unlike private channels, it does not stick to music of just one language. It plays ghazals, soundtracks as well as English songs, a rare occurrence in Indian radio channels. Rainbow is one of very few Indian radio channels which airs Western Music and the western music slots are really popular with listeners. It has many western music programmes likeTime Out,Take off,Matchless music hours,Live wire Plus,Wicked Hour,Footloose,You asked for it,Just for you,Radio pet house,not only this it also has classical music shows.Almost all the radio jockeys on private FM channels once started with FM Rainbow.The slot for English music [called radio raptures] airs everyday at 7am-10am and 10pm-1am and it has a very good audience.Kodai FM It is a Tamil Radio Station operates 6.00 am to 10.00 pm, at 100.5 MHz.It covers 22 Districts.
This channel also relayed by Yercaud Radio tower 103.7 MHz. This channels are very most liked the Tamilnadu peoples.
Kodai FM In Future, the Kodai FM (Tamil) will start another relay station for Coimbatore, Ooty & Mysore Tamil peoples.
Network Neram is the most famous program among the Rainbow FM group, since it has been broadcast all over the TamilNadu state and DTH listeners. Chennai Rainbow FM (101.4 MHz) broadcasts this program and Trichy Rainbow FM, Coimbatore Rainbow FM, Madurai AIR, Uthagamandalam (Ooty) AIR, Thirunelveli (Nellai) AIR are relaying this program between 5.00 pm and 6.00 pm. Anwar, Nelson, Selva, Saravanan, Murali, Karthik, Ruban, Saranya, Jayashri and Gayathri are the RJs hosting network neram program. Though Tamilnadu got so many private fm channels, network neram is the top performing program. This network neram got started on 15th of July 2006.
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