{{Infobox radio station | country = BD | name = Radio Metrowave | logo = | city = Dhaka | area = Dhaka metropolitan area | branding = | frequency = {{Frequency|1170|kHz}} | translator = | repeater = | airdate = {{start date and age|1999|03|26|df=yes}} | last_airdate = 27 June 2005 | format = | language = | power = | erp = | haat = | class = | facility_id = | coordinates = {{coord|23.7800|90.3573|region:BD_type:landmark|display=inline}} | callsign_meaning = | former_callsigns = | former_frequencies = | affiliations = | owner = | licensee = | sister_stations = | webcast = <!-- [URL Listen Live] --> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''Radio Metrowave''' ({{langx|bn|রেডিও মেট্রোওয়েভ}}) was the first private radio station in Bangladesh.<ref name="probe" /> The station carried a news and entertainment format that it characterised as "infotainment".<ref name="intro" /> It broadcasts on frequency 256.41-meter band or 1170&nbsp;kHz in a medium wave, from 7:30{{nbsp}}a.m. to 10:30{{nbsp}}a.m. and noon to 3:00{{nbsp}}p.m. The station served the Dhaka metropolitan area and adjoining districts. It began broadcasting on 26 March 1999.<ref name="BanerjeeLogan2008" />

==Programs== Its programs ''Probhati'', ''Ajker Din'', ''Ganer Pakhi'', ''Metro Hits'', ''Global Rhythm'', ''Rockwave'', ''Nakshi Katha'', ''Metro Sananda'', ''Sonali Otit,'' and ''Station Rock'' were, according to the station, popular.<ref name="intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.metrowave-bd.com/introduction.htm |title=Intro |website=Radio Metrowave |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206223133/http://www.metrowave-bd.com/introduction.htm |archive-date=6 February 2005}}</ref>

==Shutdown== Radio Metrowave was closed down by the government on 27 June 2005 because of its persistent failure to pay off arrears to state-owned Bangladesh Betar, from which it rented a time slot and transmitter.<ref name="probe">{{cite news |title=None of the approved radio channels went on air |url=http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=658 |newspaper=Probe News Magazine |date=3 February 2006 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208140533/http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=658 |archive-date=8 February 2012}}</ref><ref name="BanerjeeLogan2008">{{cite book |last1=Banerjee |first1=Indrajit |last2=Logan |first2=Stephen |date=2008 |title=Asian Communication Handbook 2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo9YWvrWFcIC&pg=PA108 |location=Singapore |publisher=Asian Media Information and Communication Centre |page=108 |isbn=978-981-4136-10-5}}</ref>

==See also== * Communications in Bangladesh * List of Bangladeshi television and radio channels

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{cite web |url=https://www.asiawaves.net/mediumwave-1150.htm |title=1150-1178 kHz: Mediumwave Radio stations in Asia |website=Asiawaves}}

Category:Radio stations in Bangladesh Category:Radio stations established in 1999 Category:Radio stations disestablished in 2005 Category:1999 establishments in Bangladesh Category:2005 disestablishments in Bangladesh Category:Defunct mass media in Bangladesh Category:Mass media in Dhaka

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