{"id":989103,"date":"2026-02-02T07:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989103"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:15:45","slug":"centre-ready-to-support-radio-sector-expansion-union-minister-l-murugan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/centre-ready-to-support-radio-sector-expansion-union-minister-l-murugan\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre ready to support radio sector expansion: Union Minister L Murugan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan on Saturday said the government was ready to support further expansion of the country&#8217;s radio ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Broadcast Engineering Society Expo, he said the government was encouraging expansion of FM radio even in Tier-3 cities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 839 FM stations in 313 cities. Community radio stations too are growing fast. We have 532 community radio stations. The government is ready to support the radio sector by granting licences,&#8221; Murugan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan on Saturday said the government was ready to support further expansion of the country&#8217;s radio ecosystem. Speaking at the Broadcast Engineering Society Expo, he said the government was encouraging expansion of FM radio even in Tier-3 cities. &#8220;We have 839 FM stations in 313 cities. Community radio stations too are growing fast. We have 532 community radio stations. The government is ready to support the radio sector by granting licences,&#8221; Murugan said.<\/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-989103","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\/989103","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=989103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}