NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS CHANNEL
ISLAMABAD
In the background of fast moving events around the world, it was felt that the audience needed to be kept informed with the latest events. For this purpose a News and Current Affairs Channel (NCAC) was launched on April 18, 2001. It was the only channel of its kind in Asia.
NCAC IS THE ONLY UNIT BESIDES FM 101, WHICH IS DIGITIZED.
The Channel provides its listeners seven hours of programmes of views on current subjects, through analysis commentaries and discussions, along with regular News Bulletins, Sports News, Business Updates and Stock Market Reports. A network of 11 stations of the PBC carries the NCAC programmes.

Transmission Hours 07 hours daily from 0700 to 0900 hrs. & 1800 to 2300 hrs




NETWORK OF NCAC



Transmitter
Power
Frequency B’cast Time



Transmitters,Frequencies Islamabad
100 KW MW Rawalpindi
1152 KHz Morning and Evening

Lahore
50 KW MW
1080 KHz Evening

Faisalabad
10 KW MW
1476 KHz Morning and Evening

Bahawalpur
10 KW MW
1341 KHz Morning

Hyderabad
10 KW MW
1098 KHz Evening

Karachi
100 KW MW
639 KHz Morning and Evening

Quetta
10 KW MW
855 KHz Evening

Khuzdar
300 KW MW
576 KHz Morning

D.I.Khan
10 KW MW
1404 KHz Morning

Loralai
10 KW MW
1251 KHz Morning

Zhob
10 KW MW
1449 KHz Morning

Turbat
0.25 KW MW
1584 KHz Morning

HPT Complex Islamabad
100 KW SW
7205 KHz
7215 KHz Morning and Evening
Coverage Area wise on MW 51%

SW 92%

Population wise on MW 62%

SW 92%






Out of Pakistan Coverage Area New Delhi, Jaipur, Kanpur, Bikaner, Ambala, Saharanpur, Meerut, Aligarh, Farrukhabad a part of Nepal and a large part of Afghanistan including Kabul and Kandhar





Languages Urdu and English





Format Anchored and also live



Contents News, talks shows, discussions, documentaries, interviews, on the spot coverage