Broadcastings of at least three private FM radio channels and two FM channels of the All India Radio (AIR) were disrupted from Tuesday afternoon after a major fire broke out in a private radio station functioning from the old Doordarshan campus here at Tulasipur.
At least two fire tenders were pressed into operation for over an hour to bring the blaze under control, informed District Fire Officer
CM Routray. He said a spark triggered by a short circuit in one of the uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems in the radio station caused the inferno.
“Equipments including UPS, invertors, some furniture and a part of the roof ceiling are gutted in the mishap,” said the fire officer, adding that no one was injured in the mishap. He revealed that the radio station was functioning without any firefighting measures in place.
Sources said 93.5 Red FM, 104 Radio Chaklate and 92.7 Big FM channels were operating from the building and their programmes were broadcast through the FM antenna of the AIR.
“Since we had to snap the power supply to the antenna as a precautionary measure, our own FM broadcasts of Vibhidh Bharati and Rainbow were also affected,” said an AIR staff.