{"id":1017344,"date":"2026-06-29T07:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017344"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:31:05","slug":"fm-radio-tuned-out-of-news-tuned-into-crisis-seeks-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/fm-radio-tuned-out-of-news-tuned-into-crisis-seeks-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"FM radio: Tuned out of news, tuned into crisis, seeks reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Ever wondered why FM radio stations in India don&#8217;t broadcast news? Or why your smartphone does not have an FM tuner app like in other countries? The answer is simple: government restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>FM radio industry says these and other regulations are stifling their business, and the whole FM radio culture will wither on the vine if the government does not help soon. <\/p>\n<p>The warning signs are already visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Ever wondered why FM radio stations in India don&#8217;t broadcast news? Or why your smartphone does not have an FM tuner app like in other countries? The answer is simple: government restrictions. FM radio industry says these and other regulations are stifling their business, and the whole FM radio culture will wither on the vine if the government does not help soon. The warning signs are already visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017372,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017344\/revisions\/1017372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}