Mandalay FM is a
radio station
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that serves the
Mandalay
Mandalay ( or ; ) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631km (392 miles) (Road Distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census).
Mandalay was fo ...
metropolitan area (90 miles around Mandalay), broadcasting on the
FM band
The FM broadcast band is a range of radio frequencies used for FM broadcasting by radio stations. The range of frequencies used differs between different parts of the world. In Europe and Africa (defined as International Telecommunication Union ( ...
at a frequency of 87.9
MHz
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and on the Internet. Now the radio station is also serving around
Taungoo
Taungoo (, ''Tauñngu myoú''; ; also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west. The main industry ...
and around
Yangon
Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...
.
Mandalay FM radio will be able to tuned along the
Yangon-Mandalay Highway in December. It is operated by the city government,
MCDC, FM is one of two radio stations available in Mandalay. Mandalay's sole FM station employs a pop culture-oriented format with a focus on Burmese and English
pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describe ...
, entertainment programs, live celebrity interviews, etc., offering an alternative to the propaganda-laden programming of the state-run
Myanmar Radio National Service
Myanmar Radio National Service ( my, မြန်မာ့အသံ; formerly, Burma Broadcasting Service (BBS)), is the national radio service of Myanmar. It has its broadcasting headquarters in both the administrative capital of Naypyidaw and ...
.
The station is a joint venture between MCDC and
Forever Group
Forever Group is a Burmese private media broadcasting company, with headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar. Forever Group is known for its close ties to the Burmese military.
History
Forever Group was founded in 1996 in Myanmar by Win Maw, a former s ...
, one of the country's few multimedia companies with close ties to the country's military government.
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Radio stations in Myanmar
Mass media in Mandalay
2008 establishments in Myanmar