Red FM 93.5
Encyclopedia
Red FM is an India
n FM
radio brand, with stations broadcasting at 93.5 megahertz in the cities of Mumbai
, Delhi
, Kolkata
and Kanpur in addition to Jamshedpur, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Indore
, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nagpur
, Bangalore
, Mysore, Mangalore
, Gulbarga
, Kochi, Trivandrum, Thrissur
, Kannur
, Kozhikode
, Hyderabad, Vijayawada
, Vizag, Warangal
, Rajahmundry
, Tirupathi, Ahmedabad
, Vadodara
, Lucknow
, Aizwal. Allahabad
, Varanasi
, Jaipur
, Bhubaneswar
, Asansol
, Siliguri
, Gangtok
, Guwahati
and Shillong
. It was launched in 2002, playing a mix of Hindi
and English
songs. However, the programming is now 100% exclusively Hindi.
The channel is owned by Kalanidhi Maran
, with a 48.9% stake, as well as minority holdings of Hyderabad-based IT company Value Labs, NDTV
, Astro. It was acquired from India Today
promoter Living Media in January 2006. Their punchline is 'Bajaate Raho' (Keep Playing). The most widely broadcast shows include "Morning No.1", "Dilse", "Mumbai Local", "One Two ka Four", "Mera Wala Gana", "Superhits Music Show", "RDX", "Indore Beats" and "Nomoshkar Kolkata". In one of the recent developments at Super Hits Red FM 93.5 Virag Mishra joined the team as a National Creative Head. Virag the recipient of the esteemed Stardust Award for standout performance as a lyricist is from advertising background. Starting August 14, 2009, S FM or Suryan FM was re-branded into RED FM across 38 cities in INDIA. S FM took over Red FM in August, 2009 and re-branded all its stations to Red FM except for the ones in Tamil Nadu.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n FM
Frequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...
radio brand, with stations broadcasting at 93.5 megahertz in the cities of Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
and Kanpur in addition to Jamshedpur, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Indore
Indore
Indore is one of the major city in India, the largest city and commercial center of the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. Indore is located 190 km west of the state capital Bhopal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Indore city has a population of 1,960,631...
, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nagpur
Nagpur
Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...
, Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, Mysore, Mangalore
Mangalore
Mangalore is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located about west of the state capital, Bangalore. Mangalore lies between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghat mountain ranges, and is the administrative headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in south western...
, Gulbarga
Gulbarga
Gulbarga is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of Gulbarga District. It was formerly part of Nizam's Hyderabad state...
, Kochi, Trivandrum, Thrissur
Thrissur
This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
, Kannur
Kannur
Kannur , also known as Cannanore, is a city in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of the District of Kannur and 518km north of state capital Trivandrum. During British rule in India, Kannur was known by its old name Cannanore, which is still in...
, Kozhikode
Kozhikode
Kozhikode During Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, Kozhikkode was dubbed the "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices. Kozhikode was once the capital of an independent kingdom of the same name and later of the erstwhile Malabar District...
, Hyderabad, Vijayawada
Vijayawada
Vijayawada is the third largest city in Andhra Pradesh, India, located on the banks of the Krishna River and bounded by the Indrakiladri Hills on the West and the Budameru River on the North. The city is located in the Krishna District, about from the state capital Hyderabad.Vijayawada literally...
, Vizag, Warangal
Warangal
Warangal is a city and a municipal corporation in Warangal district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Warangal is located northeast of the state capital of Hyderabad and is the administrative headquarters of Warangal District. This district is a combination of three cities: Warangal,...
, Rajahmundry
Rajahmundry
Rajahmundry is a city and municipal corporation of the Andhra Pradesh state in India. It is located east of the state capital, Hyderabad, on the banks of the River Godavari. Known as the Cultural Capital, Rajahmundry is noted for its intense Veda culture and intellect...
, Tirupathi, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...
, Vadodara
Vadodara
Vadodara formerly known as Baroda is the third most populated city in the Indian State of Gujarat . It is one of the four cities with the population of over 1 million...
, Lucknow
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
, Aizwal. Allahabad
Allahabad
Allahabad , or Settled by God in Persian, is a major city of India and is one of the main holy cities of Hinduism. It was renamed by the Mughals from the ancient name of Prayaga , and is by some accounts the second-oldest city in India. It is located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...
, Varanasi
Varanasi
-Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...
, Jaipur
Jaipur
Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
, Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...
, Asansol
Asansol
Asansol is a coal mining and industrial metropolis and one of the busiest commercial centres in India. It is the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal after Kolkata and the 19th largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is located in the western part of the Burdwan...
, Siliguri
Siliguri
Siliguri is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the Siliguri Corridor or Chicken's Neck - a very narrow strip of land linking mainland India to its north-eastern states. It is also the transit point for air, road and rail traffic to the neighbouring countries of Nepal,...
, Gangtok
Gangtok
Gangtok is the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim. Gangtok is located in the Shivalik Hills of the eastern Himalayan range, at an altitude of . The town, with a population of thirty thousand belonging to different ethnicities such as Nepalis, Lepchas and Bhutia, is administered...
, Guwahati
Guwahati
Guwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...
and Shillong
Shillong
-Connectivity:Although well connected by road, Shillong has no rail connection and a proper air connection. Umroi Airport exists but has only limited flights.-Roadways:Shillong is well connected by roads with all major north eastern states...
. It was launched in 2002, playing a mix of Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
songs. However, the programming is now 100% exclusively Hindi.
The channel is owned by Kalanidhi Maran
Kalanidhi Maran
Kalanithi Maran is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network, which is the most profitable Television network in Asia.In June 2010, he acquired Spice Jet which was the most profitable airlines in India...
, with a 48.9% stake, as well as minority holdings of Hyderabad-based IT company Value Labs, NDTV
NDTV
NDTV is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...
, Astro. It was acquired from India Today
India Today
India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...
promoter Living Media in January 2006. Their punchline is 'Bajaate Raho' (Keep Playing). The most widely broadcast shows include "Morning No.1", "Dilse", "Mumbai Local", "One Two ka Four", "Mera Wala Gana", "Superhits Music Show", "RDX", "Indore Beats" and "Nomoshkar Kolkata". In one of the recent developments at Super Hits Red FM 93.5 Virag Mishra joined the team as a National Creative Head. Virag the recipient of the esteemed Stardust Award for standout performance as a lyricist is from advertising background. Starting August 14, 2009, S FM or Suryan FM was re-branded into RED FM across 38 cities in INDIA. S FM took over Red FM in August, 2009 and re-branded all its stations to Red FM except for the ones in Tamil Nadu.
Radio stations
RED FM 93.5 MHZ | |||||||
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State | Language | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Kerala | Malayalam | Thiruvananthapuram | Thrissur | Kannur | Kozhikode | Kochi | |
Andhra pradesh |
Telugu | Vishakapatnam | Hyderabad | Tirupati | Vijayawada | Rajamundry | Warangal |
Karnataka | Kannada/Tulu | Bengaluru | Mangalore | Mysore | Gulbarga | ||
Maharashtra | Hindi /Other | Aurangabad | Pune | Nashik | Nagpur | Mumbai | |
Uttar pradesh |
Hindi /Other | Lucknow | Varanasi | Kanpur | Allahabad | ||
Gujarat | Hindi /Other | Rajkot | Vadodara | Ahmedabad | |||
Madhya pradesh |
Hindi /Other | Indore | Bhopal | Jabalpur | |||
Hindi /Other | Asansol | Jamshedpur | Guwahati | Jaipur | Bhubaneshwar | ||
Hindi /Other | Gangtok | Siliguri | Shillong | ||||
Hindi /Other | New Delhi | Mumbai | Kolkata | ||||
Hindi /Gujarati | Ahmedabad | Rajkot | Vadodara | ||||