Towards this, WorldSpace India, which currently has 35 radio stations and lounges in three major cities, plans to come out with more stations to cover almost all the major regional languages of the country and cover major cities with lounges. As a part of this strategy, WorldSpace Radio launched its services in Hyderabad on Friday. It currently has lounges in Chennai and Bangalore.
Currently making its radio sets available at all the leading electronic shops in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, WorldSpace Radio plans to open up its own store shortly, where one can listen to music of his/her choice at their pace and also buy radio sets and subscribe to the service.
WorldSpace boasts of a range of stations across genres from jazz to classical, to old Hindi film music and Rock. It now offers two Indian classical channels and regional Indian channels such as Tara (Bengali), KL Radio (Tamil), Sparsha (Kannada), RM Radio (Malayalam) and Spandana (Telugu) on its network. The Satellite Radio Company is planning to launch a Punjabi channel and an international hit music channel shortly.
