Here is a list of the radio stations broadcasting from Kolkata. Please get in touch with us and send a e-mail to kolkatafmradio@gmail.com to get us to add AM or FM stations that we have missed.

Washington
Bangla Radio On Internet (WBRi)

www.WashingtonBanglaRadio.com

WBRi broadcasts timeless classics and Calcutta hits online
from the suburbs of Washington DC, and offers:

• Live 24x7 Bengali Web Radio Channel, featuring songs
  from over a century and across all genres of Bangla music
• Listen to the bangla radio station on your desktop PC
  or laptop, cell phone or mobile handheld device with data
  service. You can also read the interviews, features and
  articles on your mobile using the mobile links provided
  on the web site
• Exclusive interviews with established and upcoming Kolkata
  personalities, especially bangla bands, singers, musicians,
  composers, lyricists and artists in the field of Bengali
  music
• Online music catalog providing instant legal downloads
  of songs, albums and music videos in highest quality compressed
  digital format

• Tune into Live WBRi Online Bengali Radio Channel Broadcasting Hits From Kolkata »

• Beta Test Experimental WBRi Media Contemporary Eclectic World Mix Radio (coming soon) »

91.9
Friends FM Kolkata

Contact:

44, Park Street,

9th Floor,

Kolkata - 700016

Tel: +91 33 3988919

Profile of the Anandabazar Patrika Group owned 91.9 Friends
Kolkata FM , written by Amritendu Roy, Business Head, Friends
91.9 FM Calcutta: Friends 91.9 FM launched on February 28,
2007 with the promise of offering Kolkata a differentiated
radio station for their listening pleasure. Based on the adult
contemporary format and playing music to take its listeners
back to the days of their youth, the station promises to make
you relive moments with it as the friend you always had. The
RJ’s on the station are easy going and the maturity
they demonstrate instills listeners to bear their souls to
them in conversation. Each RJ’s personality endears
him/her to listeners and entrench them in the daily lives
of the people of Kolkata. Add to this a host of celebrity
hosted shows and unique interactive programs, Friends 91.9
FM have emerged as a channel that engages its audiences in
pure entertainment.

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92.7
Big FM Calcutta

www.big927fm.com

Contact

Unit T-2/98, Millennium City

Information Technology Park

Plot DB 62, Sector 5

Salt Lake

KOLKATA 700091

West Bengal

Tel: +91 33 32910264

Big 92.7 FM Kolkata is owned by the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai
Ambani Group. To address the competitive nature of Radio as
a medium and to ensure the Stations stands out from the clutter;
BIG 92.7 FM has undertaken extensive research and in-depth
analysis of the likes and dislikes of the listeners before
putting together its innovative programs. Unique Auditorium
Music Tests (AMT's) have been conducted across all cities
and over 1000 songs run past the sample audiences to verify
both local flavor and city-connect. Based on these findings,
the station will air tunes, 40% of which will be exclusively
heard only on BIG 92.7 FM. The music played will span eras
and genres so that it appeals to all. In blind tests conducted
among different audience segments, the music mix of BIG 92.7
FM was preferred over that of existing FM stations.

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93.5
RED FM Kolkata

www.myredfm.com

Contact

Digital Radio (Kolkata) Broadcasting Limited

[Formerly Radio Today (Calcutta) Broadcasting Limited]

5th Floor, Devalaya Building

3-A, Gariahat Road

Kolkata - 700 026

Superhits RED FM 93.5 Bajaate Raho! Red FM India’s
fastest growing radio station is owned by a consortium of
Arjun Rao & Sun TV Group with minority interest by Astro,
Malaysia & NDTV. Launched in 2002, RED FM first started
round the clock operations in Mumbai, followed by Delhi and
& Kolkata in 2003. One of the first stations to go on-air
during the first phase of privatization of FM radio business,
RED FM began with the positioning of ‘Asli Masti’.
In 2005, Red FM was relaunched with a brand new philosophy
and attitude of “Bajaate Raho!” along with a music
strategy of playing only Super Hit music, based on the internationally
successful CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio) format. Today, RED
FM is widely appreciated for its ‘Bajaate Raho!’
attitude that is ingrained in its programming philosophy and
displayed by its RJ’s who apart from playing hit music,
aggressively take up relevant issues that effect people on
a day to day basis. It has emerged as the ‘Station for
Expression’ for the common man. Red FM further strengthens
this brand attitude by utilizing innovative and novel media
to reach out to its listeners at various touch points in their
daily lives. The tremendous success of Red and the accolades
won by the station stands testimony to its huge popularity;
Red FM is clearly consolidating as the No.1 radio station,
in Mumbai, based on the RAM research.

98.3 Radio Mirchi Kolkata

www.enil.co.in

Contact

Mr. Vishal Sethia

Shantiniketan Bldg, 13th Flr,

8,Camac Street, Kolkata - 700017

Tel : +91 33 2282 1717

Cell : +91 983 046 4363

In 2000, when the Indian Government formally announced auction
of 108 FM frequencies across 40 cities, Entertainment Network
(India) Limited won the largest number of licenses, thereby
acquiring a national footprint, and becoming the only commercial
FM broadcaster present in all 4 Metros, with an exclusive
presence in 7 cities. AND Radio Mirchi was born. Earlier available
in the seven cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune,
Indore and Ahmedabad, now it is also available in key markets
of Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Patna & Jalandhar therby
taking the tally to 12 stations across India. It's the largest
private FM Radio operator in the country in terms of number
of operational stations and revenue. Though Radio Mirchi FM
radio stations are located in diverse regions in India it's
been successful in attracting local audiences in each of these
markets. This is largely due to a superior understanding of
audience preferences, which enables it to provide content
customized to the taste, language and culture of the local
audience. A track record of developing creative and innovative
content or programming formats has helped Radio Mirchi expand
and retain its audience and advertisers. For example, it has
exclusively released the music for Hindi films such as 'Hum
Tum', 'Salaam Namaste', 'Mangal Pandey' where it enjoyed exclusive
rights for FM broadcasting of the music of these films for
around two weeks.

100.2
FM Gold Calcutta

allindiaradio.org/schedule/fm_gold.html

Contact

Akashvani Kolkata

Eden Gardens

KOLKATA 700001

West Bengal

Tel: +91 33 22489131-4

Fax: +91 33 22489364

E-mail: aircal@cal.vsnl.net.in

This station is operated by All India Radio, officially known
as Akashvani (????????, a division of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting
Corporation of India), an autonomous corporation of the Ministry
of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. According
to a June 22, 2006 article in the Business Standard, FM Gold,
the second Kolkata Station of All India Radio, was to go stereo.
The FM station, which airs more of the traditional fare like
Rabindra Sangeet and classical music, public interest programmes,
plays less of the trendy Hindi film music that has become
the staple of Calcutta FM channels. While the reach may not
increase, the change from mono to stereo will bring about
greater clarity in broadcast, especially in that of instrumental
or orchestra music where there are multiple sources of sound.

FM104
Fever FM Kolkata

www.fever.fm

Contact

HT Music & Entertainment Co Ltd

DLF IT Park

Tower 1, 12th Floor

New Town, Rajarhat, Kolkata 700156

Ph +91 33 39104104

email: fever104@hindustantimes.com

Owned by The Hindustan Times, Fever 104 FM plays the latest
hits, all day, all the time across the cities of Delhi, Mumbai,
Bangalore and Kolkata, with its signature property of 40 minutes
non-stop music.

104.8
Meow FM Calcutta

Contact

52 Jawaharlal Nehru Road

4th floor

India Today

Kolkata 700071

Launched on Oct 5, 2007, Meow is oriented towards the woman
listener, with talk shows and coverage of various womens'
issues in Kolkata and India.

WBRi
has featured Meow's very popular RJ Sushmita Bhattacharya
which you can find HERE >

105.4
Gyan Vani Kolkata

www.wbnsou.com/Gyan_Vani.htm

Contact

IGNOU, REGIONAL CENTRE,

BIKASH BHAVAN,

4TH FLOOR, NORTH BLOCK,

BIDHAN NAGAR ( SALT LAKE CITY )

KOLKATA-700091

Phone (033) 2334 9850, (033) 2359 2719

Fax (033) 23347576

E-mail : rd28cal@rediffmail.com

The Govt. of India, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
has given license to Indira Gandhi National Open University
(IGNOU) for running 40 FM stations (Gyan Vani 105.4 MHz) for
the sole purpose of educational broadcasting. Ministry of
Human Resource Development (HRD) has nominated IGNOU as the
nodal agency to implement the scheme, for which purpose Ministry
of Telecommunications also allotted frequencies. Department
of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development
(HRD) has agreed to offer all support in running the FM stations.
IGNOU has been given right to identify and select the Partner
institutions and negotiate and settle the terms with them
for their cooperation. Netaji Subhas Open University has consequently
been selected as one such partner institution. The Gyan Vani
Kolkata FM channel was born of a Memorandum of Understanding
signed recently between the two universities. Gyan Vani Kolkata,
an FM Channel dedicated to education, set up by Netaji Subhas
Open University (NSOU), went on air at 4 p.m. July 7, 2003
from the University's new audio studio at Garcha Road. Prof.
Satya Sadhan Chakraborty, Higher Education Minister, Govt.
of West Bengal inaugurated the channel. Prof. H. P. Dikshit,
Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
and Chairman, Distance Education Council (DEC) and Prof. Surabhi
Banerjee, Vice Chancellor, Netaji Subhas Open University also
delivered talks in the inaugural programme.Prof. Pabitra Sarkar,
an eminent educationist and former Vice-Chairman, West Bengal
Council of Higher Education was also present on the occasion.
He was the first expert to talk on a specific subject on the
channel.

106.2
Aamar FM Kolkata

www.aamar106fm.com

Contact

HITZ FM Radio India Pvt Ltd

Kolkata FM Broadcast Center, 4th Floor

2/3/1, Southern Avenue

KOLKATA 700026

West Bengal

Tel: +91 33 24655115-6

2nd May, 2006 midnight, Aamar 106.2 FM (also spelt Amar
FM) launched simultaneously with three other private
FM stations to sweep the cultural capital of the country by
its feet. As the station name suggests Aamar 106.2FM is positioned
as ‘MY’ radio station, which could also be described
as “The Radio Station Built for Kolkata by Kolkatans”.
All of the elements heard on Aamar 106.2FM were designed from
the input and feedback collected from extensive local research
studies and its unique “FM Radio Start-Up” pre-launch
campaign. The on- air presentation language of Aamar 106.2FM
is 100% Bengali (being the only private FM station to do so)
with music played to appeal to sophisticated, contemporary,
urban Bengali listeners, aged between 24 and 44 years, in
middle and upper socio-economic groups. Aamar 106.2FM plays
Kolkata music mix for listeners, from the 70’s, 80’s,
90’s and today, ranging from Bengali popular songs to
the best of Hindi film music. The station reflects the wide
variety and rich history of contemporary popular music produced
in Kolkata and West Bengal, along with special lifestyle features
and exciting radio contests and promotions, designed as relevant
to the target audience and with prizes listener’s love
to win. The Aamar 106.2FM image portrays all that the upwardly
mobile Kolkatan is attracted to and is a talking point amongst
Bengali’s in Kolkata, where neighbours and friends are
encouraged to relate to the station and exchange views on
what the station offers.

107
AIR Rainbow FM Calcutta

allindiaradio.org/schedule/fm_rain.html

Contact

Akashvani Kolkata

Eden Gardens

KOLKATA 700001

West Bengal

Tel: +91 33 22489131-4

Fax: +91 33 22489364

E-mail: aircal@cal.vsnl.net.in

This station is operated by All India Radio, officially known
as Akashvani (????????, a division of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting
Corporation of India), an autonomous corporation of the Ministry
of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. This
station is an attempt by AIR to target the younger generation,
and is trilingual in nature, with programming in English,
Bengali and Hindi.

107.8
Power FM Kolkata

www.power1078fm.com

According to Radioduniya.in on Nov 16, 2008, Kolkata's only
'Hinglish' music station, 107.8 Power FM, revealed its new
logo and an aggressive new campaign. The event included the
grand unveiling of the new Power FM logo, a stage-scorching
performance by Sandeep Vyas, non-stop music by the city's
favourite DJ Akash, and interactive cameos from each RJ of
the station. 107.8 Power FM now sports a new look, a new attitude
and a new slogan that defines the mindset of today's generation.
It is Kolkata's up-market, youthful cosmopolitan radio station,
and possesses the gung-ho attitude that the aspirational youth
of today associate themselves with. While the music and programming
style of Power FM is at par with any international FM station,
the RJs of Power FM are the ones that Gen-Next totally associates
with.

AM Radio Channels in Calcutta

Medium Wave (MW) stations in Kolkata are operated by All
India Radio, officially known as Akashvani, a division of
Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) - an autonomous
corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
Government of India. Akashvani Kolkata started broadcasting
from the Akashvani Bhavan at Eden Gardens in . Just after
50 years of operation, the facilities include 14 studios and
3 stereo FM stations.

The MW stations are:

• Kolkata 'A' 657 kHz - Bengali language programming
• Kolkata 'B' 1008 kHz - Bengali and English programming
• Yuva Bharati 1323 kHz - Youth oriented programming
• 'Vividh Bharati' - Hindi mass entertainment with some
  Bengali content, includes sponsored programming

SHORTWAVE (SW) RADIO CHANNELS IN KOLKATA

Times are presumably Indian Standard Time (IST
= UTC + 5.5):

• Kolkata 'A' 05.55 a.m. - 07.40 a.m. : Frequency:
  4820 KHz, 62.24 Metres
• Kolkata 'A' 07.57 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. : Frequency:
  7210 KHz, 41.61 Metres
• Kolkata 'A' 12.30 p.m. - 03.30 p.m. : Frequency:
  7210 KHz, 41.61 Metres
• Kolkata 'A' 06.00p.m. - 12.00p.m.(night): Frequency:
  4820 KHz, 62.24 Metres