KOZHIKODE: Kozhikode MP M.K. Raghavan has protested against the union ministry’s decision to scrap All-India Radio’s regional news bulletin. He sent a fax message to Minister for Information and Broadcasting Smriti Irani on Tuesday to review the decision saying the regional bulletin, that crossed 50 years, was very popular in this part of the country. The Kozhikode section of news, that started on a Vishu day in 1966, has two 10-minute news bulletins and five FM headlines from 8 a.m. in a gap of one hour.
Several other news programmes are also aired from here. The MP stressed that the AIR receives maximum advertisement revenue from the morning news. When the news unit gets shifted to Thiruvananthapuram, it is feared that the region will lose its importance. When the same decision was taken in October last, the ministry had promised that the regional bulletins would not be stopped.
