Kismat FM - Ofcom Licensing
Kismat FM - Ofcom Licensing
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Section 105(A): Ability To Maintain Proposed Service<br />
<strong>Kismat</strong><br />
Radio<br />
1. OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF COMPANY WHICH WILL OPERATE THE LICENCE<br />
(a) Board of Directors<br />
The <strong>Kismat</strong> Radio board currently comprises six members, of which half are local to the licence area. Details are<br />
as follows:<br />
Avtar Lit<br />
Chairman<br />
Age<br />
54<br />
Occupation:<br />
Chief Executive<br />
Sunrise Group<br />
Other Media Interests:<br />
See Below<br />
Other Directorships<br />
Sunrise Radio Ltd;<br />
London Media Company Ltd;<br />
Yarr Radio Ltd;<br />
Easy Radio London Ltd;<br />
Club Concorde Ltd;<br />
Hayes Gate House Ltd;<br />
Asian Broadcasting Corporation Ltd;<br />
Asia Broadcasting Corporation (Sri Lanka)<br />
Universal Breweries Ltd (Mauritius);<br />
Top <strong>FM</strong> Ltd (Mauritius).<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Avtar’s name is synonymous with Asian broadcasting worldwide. His depth<br />
of broadcasting success and commercial innovation has won admiration in<br />
both Western and Eastern circles and include an honorary doctorate<br />
bestowed upon him by Thames Valley University.<br />
Today’s successes have come from humble beginnings in 1980 when Avtar<br />
first got a taste for journalism and community through his involvement at<br />
Greenwich Cablevision. After a short break setting up an Asian station and<br />
newspaper in California, he returned to the UK to campaign for the West<br />
London radio licence from which Sunrise Radio was born.<br />
In 1990 he assisted in saving Bradford City Radio and later enabled the<br />
station to retain its independent status. Two years later he took 24 hour<br />
Asian commercial broadcasting to Leicester and in 1993 won the licence to<br />
expand Sunrise Radio London-wide. In 1994 Avtar successfully responded<br />
to the Government of Mauritius’s invitation to compete for a licence to<br />
broadcast to the Asian half of its population.<br />
In 1997 he launched five new radio stations in Sri Lanka catering for the<br />
country’s varying tastes. The high tech broadcasting headquarters in the<br />
Island’s capital are housed in one of the most magnificent buildings in the<br />
country.<br />
Over the past 20 years Avtar’s contribution to Asian broadcasting is self<br />
evident. His substantive support to fundraising causes both home and<br />
abroad is also legendary. He has progressed to running the most successful<br />
Asian radio station in the UK - Sunrise Radio (London) and a string of<br />
DAB services. In addition, he has highly successful interests in Mauritius,<br />
Sri Lanka and India and all of these services are top-rated in their class. In<br />
particular, Avtar’s commitment and support for DAB is the most extensive<br />
of any ethnic minority broadcaster in the UK in direct response to the<br />
Radio Authority’s clearly stated ambitions for DAB properly to reflect<br />
ethnic make-up in the country.<br />
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