Online presence of AIR Imphal News attracts Manipuri diaspora
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 05 2016 :
Online presence of All India Ra-dio(AIR), Imphal news is gradually getting significant response not only from the netizens and smartphone users in the State but also from Manipuri diaspora around the globe.
The blog and online broadcast on souncloud app of the AIR Imphal news with its six times updates daily, have made it the only online medium in the State to serve the Manipuris around the globe with such a frequency of updates in written script and audio in Manipuri language, redefining the public service broadcasting unit with the changing trends.
The blog of the AIR Imphal News � www.airnewsimphal.blogspot.in which was started on September 23 last year is getting global readership of about 57,000 including readers from the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Middle East and South-East Asian countries.
AIR Imphal News had earlier served its readers on its facebook account Airnews Imphal.
The Manipuri bulletins of AIR Imphal are also available on soundcloud app and it can be heard at http://soundcloud.com/airnews-imphal around the globe anytime.
The Manipuri bulletins could be accessed from smartphones by downloading the soundcloud app and searching for Airnews Imphal.
This has made the bulletins available for about three/four days online.
However, the bulletin archives are not yet available for more than three/four days for the app.
Besides running 11 bulletins daily including six major dialect bulletins and two FM headlines as well as five news-based programmes weekly to serve the most radio listening State of the Country (according to Census 2011), the online efforts of AIR, Imphal is gaining popularity not only among listeners but also readers throughout the globe.