ABC Radio Bangladesh
ABC Radio is the first news focused FM radio station in Bangladesh. ABC radio is a part of Mediastar, from Transcom Group. Its owner is the Transcom Group. The station studio is located at the media area of Karwanbazaar. The head program and news of ABC Radio is Sanaullah Lablu (former chief news editor of Prothom-alo). The station stays on air for 24 hours at FM 89.2 MHz of frequency from Dhaka station. As a newest member of FM radio family ABC started its all out commercial operation from January 7, 2008.
The station regularly airs
- News Bulletins (Prime / Short)
- Talk show on current affairs, entertainment
- Radio Documentary
- Information Updates (Traffic, Outdoor Event, STOCK Market, Bazaar, Weather, Culture, Time Queue and many more)
- Live show with RJ’s and cool selection of songs
- Weekly, monthly special programs
- Talks show with celebrities and listeners
- Wide variation of segments
- Special programs on special days
News
For news, ABC Radio have its strong tie with the most nationally published daily newspaper Prothom-alo. It gets almost 250 correspondents strong support from inside the country, making it the biggest network for radio news. Also, it has its overseas correspondents at India, USA, UK, Japan.
Beside every hours short bulletin, it has six bangla prime news bulletin and one prime english news.
Programs
Daypart Names
- 6AM - 9AM <-> Bhorer Janalae
- 9AM-12AM <-> Transtec Mukhurito Jibone
- 12PM-3PM <-> Darun Dupore
- 3PM-5PM <-> Duronto Bikel
- 5PM-7PM <-> Shondha Tara
- 7PM-9PM <-> Shajher Maya
- 9PM-11PM <-> Rater Akashe
- 11Pm-2AM <-> Golper Shesh Nei
- 2AM-6AM <-> Back To Back Music
Monthly Specials
- 11PM - 2AM <-> Born Rockers (Last Wednesday)
Weekly Specials
- 11PM - 2AM - Poka (Monday - Wednesday)
- 11PM - 2AM - Café 89.2 (Thursday - Sunday)
- 11PM - 2AM - Emmanuels Cafe Live (Thursday) (Live Music Performance) [new show june'09]
- 3PM-6PM - Golok-Dhadha (Wednesday) (Game Show)
- 9:30PM - 11PM - Rock of Ages (Wednesday) (English Rock)
- 9:30PM - 11PM - Le Classique (Thursday) (English 50s-80s)
- 9:30PM - 11PM - Tunnel of Music (Friday - Saturday) (English Hits)
- 9:30PM - 11PM - Hindi Top Hits (Sunday) (Only Hindi Tracks)
- 7PM - 9PM - Shonar Kathi, Rupar Kathi (Monday) (Tech Show)
- 3PM - 6PM - Cinema-ttaal (Wednesday) (Show on BD movie)
- 12PM - 3PM - Chadni-Chawk (Tuesday) (Womans Time)
- 12PM - 3PM - Campus, Campus (Sunday) (Campus Stars Time)
- 12PM - 3PM - Aparajita (Monday) (Womans Success Story)
Daily Info Segments
- 8AM-10AM <-> Spring Airfreshner Holud Bati (Traffic update each after 30 min)
- 7:30 AM, 4:30PM <-> Valo theko shonge theko (Bus train departure time)
- After 10-2PM news <-> Sharer lorai Volluker jor (Stock market update)
- 8:30AM,5:30PM <-> Kancha Lonka (Bazaar Update)
- 9:30AM, 3:30PM <-> Edik-Odik (Dhaka events)
- 8:45AM, 12:45PM, 5:45PM <-> Megh Baroata (Weather)
- At the start of every hour <-> Aktel Ghori (Time Check)
Listeners Participation
Listeners can sms to participate to the radio programs:
- for Grameenphone, Banglalink, Aktel, Warid, Teletalk type
and send to 8920 - for Citycell type ABC
and send to 6161
Coverage Area
The broadcasting is covering about 40 million people living in the following districts from Dhaka station:
- Dhaka
- Narayanganj
- Gazipur
- Tangail
- Manikganj
- Narsingdi
- Brahmanbaria
- Madaripur
- Chandpur
- Faridpur
- Comilla
- some areas of Feni, Sirajganj.