Asia-Pacific’s biggest broadcasting studio opens 


Wednesday, 24 August , 2005, 02:00

New Delhi: The Asian-Pacific region's biggest
broadcasting studio was inaugurated on Tuesday by
Information and Broadcasting Minister S. Jaipal Reddy.



Built on a plinth area of 13,895 square metre, the new
five-storeyed Broadcasting House and the 18,958 square
metre 11-storeyed Doordarshan Bhawan Tower B house
state-of-the art studios and modern centrally
air-conditioned offices.

The new complex will be used by the All India Radio
home services, the News Services Division and the
External Services Division.

It has 26 fully automated transmission studios, and
all recording, editing and playback equipment,
including mixing consoles and master routers, are in
digital mode.

The newsroom is paperless and equipped with
state-of-the art facilities. There are also six
dubbing rooms, five control booths, two radio
conferencing rooms and one Captive Earth Station.

Each of the 26 transmission studios include a digital
audio work station, two CD players and a digital
mixer. Ten of the 26 studios are equipped with digital
phone-in units with a facility to conference upto 12
callers on ISDN and PSTN lines.