Country: Bangladesh

Bangladesh Betar, the national radio network has been discharging the honourous responsibility of disseminating information, education, entertainment with utmost commitment, honesty and objectivity for about seven decades. It functions to support nation building efforts of the Government upholding social values and the country’s rich historical and cultural heritage. Betar has been playing a pivotal role towards developing a knowledge based information society taking advantage of its unique and distinctive capacity as the cheapest and most versatile medium to reach to the grass root level. Betar with the help of 15 medium wave, 2 short wave and 10 FM transmitters has the strongest logistic network reaching across the breadth and length of the national boundary and beyond. Apart from the central News Desk, spewing out hourly bulletins incorporating latest national and international events, Betar as a true public service broadcasting medium has been propagating programmes and news from its 71 studios round the clock reflecting national requirements through 11 stations and 6 units namely External Service, Transcription Service, Commercial Service, Population -Health & Nutrition Cell, Traffic Channel and Farm Broadcasting.