West London based Panjab Radio will broadcast across the UK from December on digital DAB radio.

The company’s managing director Surjit Ghuman told AIM Magazine that he was very pleased to join Asian Network as the only other Asian station available nationally on DAB.

He said: “It’s a significant expansion for Panjab Radio which has come a long way since its launch as a satellite station in September 2000, when it was only available on SKY, and in November 2003 in London, West Yorkshire and November 2007 in the West Midlands Panjab Radio was launched on DAB.”

The service will consist of music, news and speech programming mainly in Panjabi and English.

The station celebrated nine years on air in September this year.

“Panjab Radio will be available to more than 90% of the population from Newcastle to Exeter and Southampton to Glasgow,” Mr Ghuman added.

The station recently subscribed to the industry measuring body Rajar – which showed between 56,000 and 61,000 listeners every week this year.

Audience figures for Sky and DAB digital (where Panjab Radio was already available in some cities) are very difficult to measure and not available.

www.panjabradio.co.uk