Karwar: Residents in Kumta and Honnavar taluks could enjoy 100.1 mega hertz FM radio service from today, October 29. The FM station would act as art of the Doordarshan programme retransmission centre of Kumta. Kannada programmes would be transmitted from 6 am to 12 midnight everyday.

The progammes could be heard clearly within the radius of 15 to 20 km form Kumta. The All India Radio would be much nearer to the people of the region as the programmes of new FM station could be heard on mobile phone sets also, stated AIR technical wing chief Gurunath Shetty.