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Background

Radio Fiza was the sixth of the original pilot Access Radio stations in the United Kingdom which paved to way for the full launch of community radio stations in 2005. The Asian Women's Project originally provided programming on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays between 1300-2100 hours and Sunday between 1200-2100 hours. The rest of the week consited of programming from the Karimia Institute which are now broadcasting as Dawn FM. Since 28 March 2006 97.1 has consisted solely of programming from the Asian Women's Project, who now broadcast as "Faza FM". Dawn FM is a community radio station in the United Kingdom. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Programming

Programming is primarily aimed at Asian women their families and young people. The service includes local and community news and information, features, interviews, discussions, phone-ins, poetry and literature, and Asian and English music. The station broadcasts in English, Urdu and Punjabi with a smaller amount of programming in Hindi, Bengali, Mirpuri and Gujarati The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdu Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under Persian, Turkish, and Arabic influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ... Punjabi (also Panjabi; in GurmukhÄ«, PanjābÄ« in ShāhmukhÄ«) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ... Hindi (हिन्दी hind), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central, and West India, is the official language of the Indian Union. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Pothohari language otherwise known as Mirpuri or Potwari is an Indo-European language spoken from the Potwar district around Rawalpindi, Pakistan to the Indian-Kashmiri border in the Mirpur district in Azad Jammu Kashmir. ... Gujarati can mean two distinct things: The Gujarati language is a language spoken in India and Pakistan, mostly in and around the Gujarat state. ...

See also

• List of radio stations in the United Kingdom
• Dawn FM

This is a list of radio stations in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man: // National analogue and digital stations BBC Radio 1 - 97-99 MHz FM BBC Radio 2 - 88-91 MHz FM BBC Radio 3 - 90-93 MHz FM BBC Radio 4 - 92-95... Dawn FM is a community radio station in the United Kingdom. ...

External links

• Radio launch press release from OFCOM
• Radio Licence

Radio Regen, UK radio community development organisation http://www.radioregen.org.uk