Asian Sound Radio is a radio station

Radio station

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 based in Broadcast House, Southall Street in Manchester

Manchester

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. It is the only 24-hour radio station in the North West dedicated to the Asian community, broadcasting across the whole region from Preston in the North to Stockport in the South. The programming is a blend of news, interviews, competitions, music and information in English, Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

, Punjabi

Punjabi language

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

, Bengali

Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

 and Gujarati

Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages...

.

Controversy

On 17 June 2003, Asian Sound Radio was fined £3,000 by The Radio Authority for breaking rule 92(2)(a) of the Broadcasting Act 1990

Broadcasting Act 1990

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 (and the Authority's Advertising and Sponsorship Code), which prohibits "an advertisement being broadcast which is directed towards a political end", and section 90(3)(b) of the Broadcasting Act 1990 (and of the Authority's News and Current Affairs Code), which requires that "undue prominence is not given by a local licensee in its programmes to the views and opinions of particular persons or bodies on political matters".

In April 2007, Asian Sound Radio's website along with that of Sunrise Radio

Sunrise Radio

Sunrise Radio is the United Kingdom's first Independent Local Radio station to cater specifically for the Asian community. Dr Avtar Lit is the chairman and chief executive of this media group which also operates kismat radio,buzz asia,punjabi radio as well as sunrise tv-Transmission:It initially...

was strongly criticized for displaying out-of-date information and rarely being updated.

Current presenters

• Riz Khan
• Afsheen
• Azmat Tufail
• Nuzat
• Paul Shah - Shah Boy
• Ibne Tabish
• Hassan
• Saara Hassan
• Dr Abdul Shakoor
• Guriya Zahid

External links

• asiansoundradio.co.uk - Official site.