Worldspace Offers 24-Hour Urdu Music Channel

SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 6, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― Worldspace Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:WRSP) has launched Falak-India's first exclusive 24-hour Urdu channel and Worldspace’s 31st branded, self-produced channel on its Satellite Radio Network.

Falak's programming, available on AsiaStar Channel 109, will showcase the vast repertoire of Urdu music and celebrate the cultural heritage associated with the language of the imperial Mughal courts.

Falak showcases the widest collection of Urdu music on radio in the form of ghazals, qawalis and film songs, broadcasting rare songs that are not even available in music stores today. The carefully structured programming highlights the various forms of Urdu music ranging from evocative poetry readings or Mushairas, exclusive interviews with singers and poets of a bygone era, special live recordings, trivia on historical events, celebrating the lives of legends from Urdu literature and music, sharing social messages contained in ancient Urdu literature.

Falak also captures the nuances of Urdu through a range of innovative programming that brings to life the romance of more than just the language. The channel revives memories of a whole tradition of impeccable style and etiquette, prose and poetry and a rapidly vanishing set of traditional values.

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