Vividh Bharati is a major broadcasting service of public sector radio channel Akashvani in India. It is the most heard and very popular service among radio listeners in India. Mainly Hindi film songs are heard on this. It started on 3 October 1957. The year 2006-2007 was also celebrated as the golden jubilee year of Vividh Bharati. Initially, it was broadcasted from only two centers, Bombay and Madras. Later, due to the popularity gradually, more centers of AIR started broadcasting it. At present, many centers as a broadcasting service of All India Radio, listen to the programs of Vividh Bharati for their listeners.
It was a favorite radio channel of innumerable Hindi speakers in India for years. Even when neither Doordarshan came to India, or even after coming, it was not so much a favorite, as the channel has been. The channel still airs in All India.
Vividh (Bharti) is a Hindi translation of the original English word MISCELLANEOUS, which was given to this new service by Pt. Narendra Sharma, when he was called as an officer in radio from film writing in the 50s.
Service broadcasts
Chennai 'C' 783 kHz
Cuttack 'B' 1314 kHz
Delhi 'C' 1368 kHz
Hyderabad 'C 102.8 MHz
Jalandhar 'C' 1350 kHz
Kanpur 103.7MHz
Kolkata 'C' 1323 kHz
Lucknow 'C' 1278 kHz
Mumbai 'C' 1188 kHz
Panaji 'B' 1539 kHz
Varanasi 'B' 1602 kHz
Varanasi FM '100.6 MHz
Vijayawada 'B' 1503 kHz
Vividh Bharati '9870 kHz (Ex. 10330 kHz) / Power: 500 kW by Bangalore Transmitter / Mumbai Studio.
"" Vividh Bharati "" "Chandigarh FM 107.2 MHZ
