48th birthday of National Radio Station marked

(KPL) A get-together to mark the 48th birthday of the National Radio Station was held in Vientiane on 12 August.
Speaking at the function, Mr. Sipha Nonglath, Director General of the National Radio Station, highlighted the achievements and activities made by his organisation in the past 48 years
Originally launched in 1960 in the resistance zone of northeastern Laos, the Lao National Radio (LNR) became the national broadcast in 1975, taking over the studios of the former Royal Lao Radio Station in Vientiane after the national liberation, said Mr. Sipha
Between 1983 and 1993 it was administered jointly with the Lao National Television. But since 1993 it has one more operated as a separate entity. Today it broadcasts on 567 KHz AM, on 6.130 KHz and 7.145 Khz SW and two FM channels- FM1 (103.7 Mkhz) and FM2 (97.25 Mkhz). The programs broadcast simultaneously on AM and SW are focused mainly on news and ‘targeted’ programs (for farmers, youth, women etc), while FM1 carries a mixture of news, entertainment and ‘targeted’ programs and FM2 is focused purely on entertainment.
Both FM stations take advertising but FM2 generates the highest advertising revenues. AM broadcasting has been relayed around the country via satellite since 13 August 1999 and FM broadcasting since 3 April 2000.
Lao National Radio programs make up a large part of the daily programming schedules of the provincial radio stations - in general it may be said that the radio stations of larger, richer provinces such as Luang Prabang and Savannakhet, tend to produce more of their own programs, while poorer provinces broadcast more LNR and less home-grown material.
In June 2003 the Lao National Radio began broadcasting 15-minute Lao-language news bulletins on its website http://www.lnr.org.la; English- and Hmong-language news broadcasts were added in 2004.

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