Shoukat Khashkheli, the station director of Radio Pakistan Larkana, said that a new 2.5 kilowatts transmitter had been installed in place of the old 1kw. — File Photo

LARKANA The Larkana FM radio, which went off air on Dec 7 last year after its mast had fallen during a wind storm, resumed transmission on Wednesday.

Shoukat Khashkheli, the station director of Radio Pakistan Larkana, said that a new 2.5 kilowatts transmitter had been installed in place of the old 1kw.

The Frequency Modulation or briefly called the FM 101 channel was inaugurated by Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Sept 26, 1995 but ironically, the FM 101 as well as the Medium Wave Radio failed to broadcast live coverage of her first death anniversary, the sources said.

The Medium Wave Radio's transmission was restored later on but the FM 100 continues to linger on.

There was only 30 per cent synchronization between the transmitter and the antenna, sources said, adding that by then most of the listeners must have switched over to private channels.

They said that Medium Wave Larkana could not go on air during loadshedding because the station had no standby generator.

Rs30 million had been allocated in last year's budget for the purchase of transmitter but the PBC failed to buy it and the government had again kept the same amount in the current financial year for the purpose, said the sources.