UK Muslims to get First National Radio Station

The United Kingdom is all set to get its first national Muslim-orientated radio station.

UK media regulator Ofcom confirmed it has awarded Sound Digital, a consortium of Arqiva, Bauer and UTV Media, the licence to broadcast 14 stations nationally from mid-2016.

The station known as British Muslim Radio is one of two Asians channels that were a part of the winning consortium.

Launched by the owners of Asian Sound Radio in Manchester, the station will provide “Asian music and speech, with elements of Islamic content”.

It will broadcast programming in English, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati and Bengali.