[cr-india] RSF report... on radio in India

[Frederick Noronha]

Reporters sans frontier's just released report 2007 has this comment on radio:

The New Delhi government in November promulgated a
revolutionary law on community radios which opened the way to
long-awaited development of local media. But at the start of
the year, a local news and music station, Raghav FM
Mansoorpur 1, launched without a licence by a young equipment
repair man in Bihar State, was closed down under the archaic
Indian Telegraphs Act. The federal government awarded several
hundred licences for privately-run FM stations in 2006, after
years of protectionism. BBC Worldwide obtained seven licences
for the country's major cities.

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