DUSHANBE, May 7, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan today marks a Radio Day.
According to the Committee for TV and Radio-broadcasting, Tajik state Radio network was begun in 1932 and by the Forties of last century it had covered 30 percent of the country’s territory.
The first Tajik independent radio station was established in Khujand in 2001 – Tiroz. It broadcasts 21 hours on FM and its current audience is about 1.5 million people.
Radio Asia-Plus became the second in Tajikistan and the first independent radio station in Dushanbe. It went on the air on September 9 2002, the country’s 11th Independence Day. The Asia-Plus Radio, broadcasting 24 hours on FM, runs news bulletins in Tajik and Russian alternately on the hour, and plays music from all over the world.
Besides Asia-Plus, two other radio stations, “Asia FM” and “Vatan”, were also granted license to broadcast in Dushanbe.
In addition to them, Russkoye Radio-Oryono, Sadoi Dushanbe (Voice of Dushanbe) and others currently broadcast in the republic.
Besides, correspondents of Sadoi Khuroson (Iran), Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service, Voice of America, BBC, Mir, Douche Welle, Mir, Fardo and others now work in Tajikistan.
Radio Day was first observed in the Soviet union in 1945, on the 50th anniversary of Popov”s experiment, and some four decades after his death. Popov has generally been honored in Eastern Europe as the “inventor of radio”, in contrast with the West”s so crediting of Gugiliermo Marconi or sometimes Nikola Tesla. Popov gave the first public demonstration of radio as a tool, using Sir Oliver Lodge”s coherer as a lightining detector before the Russian Physicial and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg in 1895.
The News AgencyA sia-Plus staffers congratulate all employees of radio and communications on their professional holiday and wish prosperity and progress in their work.
