Mandalay FM is a

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that serves the Mandalay metropolitan area (90 miles around Mandalay), broadcasting on the

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at a frequency of 87.9

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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

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, entertainment programs, live celebrity interviews, etc., offering an alternative to the propaganda-laden programming of the state-run Myanmar Radio National Service. The station is a joint venture between MCDC and Forever Group, one of the country's few multimedia companies with close ties to the country's military government.

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* * {{Radio in Myanmar Radio stations in Myanmar Mass media in Mandalay 2008 establishments in Myanmar