Radio Nigeria Kaduna, bring back the Short Wave

Radio Nigeria Kaduna stands as a historically significant broadcast institution in Nigeria. Founded in 1962 by a regional government and later integrated into the federal broadcasting system, it played key roles in national communication and developments.

Spreading educational and cultural programmes across the Hausa-speaking world. Despite facing infrastructure and relevance challenges in recent decades, its legacy as one of Africa’s most influential radio stations remains widely acknowledge.Radio Nigeria Kaduna (also known as Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN Kaduna) transmits its programmes using different types of radio broadcast technologies so people can receive the signals on ordinary radio receivers.

These include shortwave (SW), medium wave (AM), and FM broadcasting — though what is actively used has changed over time. Historically, Radio Nigeria Kaduna used shortwave frequencies to cover very long distances — reaching listeners across northern Nigeria and even other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Shortwave broadcasts travel far because the radio waves reflect off the Earth’s ionosphere, allowing them to go beyond the local area. Kaduna station also broadcasts on medium wave (often called AM), which uses lower frequencies and can cover a wide area, especially at night. Medium wave was used to serve listeners in and beyond Kaduna State.

Radio Nigeria Kaduna also transmits on FM (Frequency Modulation) — which is high-frequency broadcast with better sound quality but a shorter range compared to AM and SW:

Supreme FM – 96.1 MHz

Karama FM – 92.1 MHz .The FM frequencies serve local and regional audiences in Kaduna and nearby areas.

However,the shortwave service, which covers wide range of services has largely collapsed for sometime now,robbing the wider audiences the benefits of enjoying the hitherto various Hausa services provided by the station across the length and breadth of the country. Instead of focusing on rehabilitating the short wave transmission, the management  pays more atteention to online streaming transmission where listeners can access the station’s programmes anywhere via internet. With high cost of data,many regular listeners who relied on short wave transmission to enjoy their daily broadcasting programmes have stayed away from the station.

The management should go beyond lamentations or creating an alternative channel for millions hausa, Nupe, Kanuri, Fulfulde listeners and fix the short wave transmission which covers wide areas.

Radio Nigeria Kaduna is a historical station and household name not only within Kaduna but entire Northern Nigeria.

With Tinubu government’s new policies and programmes,the need for sensitisation and passing of information to Nigerians on the language they understand is paramount importance. That is why,it has become imperative for the the management to quickly fix the SW for more wider coverage. I am also appealing to the Minister of Information and National Orientation to come to the aid of this historical and educative radio station by prevailing on the zonal director to do the needful and save the station before it collapses.

Ibrahim Mustapha Pambegua, Kaduna State.

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