Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 5: Radio Kashmir Jammu on its Vividh Bharti Channel is starting an 18 episodes series on 31st Summer Olympic Games being held at Rio-De-Jenario.
The series entitled Rio Dreams will be a live one hour long interactive phone in based programme from 11 am to 12 O’clock where analysis of India’s performance on every day will be done. Listeners can also chip in with their reactions during the programme with live phone calling.
Experts in the field of games will be invited in the studios and the show will be anchored by Programme Executive Nitish Arora who has covered International Sports Events as South Asian Games for All India Radio, which were held at Guwahati in February this year. He has also covered National Games from Kerala Exclusive bites and recordings from Akashwani team that has gone to Rio will also be added attraction of this programme.
The programme will also give a chance to the local talent in the field of sports to be in the studios of Radio Kashmir Jammu and interact with the listeners. The phone numbers are 0191-2547029, 2563476, 2563459.
Programme head Radio Kashmir Jammu Satish Malhotra said that Olympics is a once in a four years sports extravaganza that every sports enthusiast waits for, so Radio Kashmir Jammu has taken this initiative to involve its listeners who are spread across a wide region of the State. He further said that RKJ will also relay live running commentaries of many matches including Hockey, Lawn Tennis and Badminton and some other sports that will be made available to listeners on Medium Wave, Primary channel as well as FM.