AAKASHWANI SYDNEY is one of the major activities of MASI. With the initiative and hard work of Dr Purushottam Sawrikar, Aakashwani Sydney started in 1997. Initital brodcast was once a week for 1hour. Currently AAKASHWANI brodcasts 2 programmes per week which are live on 

FM 98.5 Multicultural Radio 2000

Now you can listen Akashwani Sydney at more relaxed time as Our Sunday broadcast time has changed from 10 am to 11am

 On Tuesdays a group of 4 to 5 presenters and panel operators present the programs on regular basis. Vrittavishesh is presented live locally where important news from India are presented for up to 6 minutes

For Sunday programs, efforts are made to get presenters from the community in order to encourage the local talent and have a variety in presentation as well as ideas. The layout of Sundays program is normally as follow:

Presenter has a time slot of 30 minutes followed by recorded Indian NEWS by a professional newsreader from India. This is followed by Sydney diary which highlights MASI's oncoming programs, activities as well as other community events of local interest. Once a month Bharat Diary is presented from India. 

For in future, several new programs like VIVAH MANDAL, KAAL, Travel diary, Finance, Sports feature and more talk back programmes have been planned.

Apart from MASI, AAKASHWANI is largely financially supported by the Marathi community in Sydney. Aakashwani hosts 2 Marathi movies each year. 

AASHRAYDATE YOJANA has been a very popular form of financial support for this activity. Aakashwani also welcomes advertisements on the radio programmes.  

Under the guidence of DR SAWRIKAR, Aakashwani's Excutive Committee and a team of about 10 panel operators work voluntarily to present the Radio programmes on Sydney Radio 98.5 FM 2000.

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Radio Executive committee for 2007

 Please feel free to contact the executive committee on the above email addresses for any additional information. Your comments and suggestions are very valuable to us. You can also send us email at : radio@marathi.org.au